There are also mountain groups of similar geological structure that spread over the River Piave to the east – Dolomiti d ' Oltrepiave ; and far away over the Adige River to the west – Dolomiti di Brenta ( Western Dolomites ).

The same name was also used by Florentines, such as the poet Fazio degli Uberti ( circa 1309 – 1367 ), the famous chronicler Giovanni Villani ( c. 1275 – 1348 ), and Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 – 1375 ), who wrote that the Brenta River rises from the mountains of Carantania, a land in the Alps dividing Italy from Germany.

The Venetian Lagoon stretches from the River Sile in the north to the Brenta in the south, with a surface area of around.

Wilson, sent to inspect the Italian Front, was worried that Venice might fall and on behalf of the SWC ordered the new Italian commander Diaz to construct new defensive positions on the River Brenta, which in the event were not needed as the line of the River Piave held.

In addition, General-major Anton Ferdinand Mittrowsky's brigade occupied the upper Brenta River, connecting the wings under Davidovich and Quosdanovich.

At Bassano, General of Division André Masséna's 9, 540 soldiers defended the line of the Brenta River.

* The wooden covered Bridge, or Ponte degli Alpini, on the Brenta River, designed in 1569 by the architect Andrea Palladio to replace a pre-existing construction existing at least from 1209.

Archduke Charles steadily retreated, fighting a rear guard action at San Pietro in Gu near the Brenta River on 4 November in which one battalion of the Kreutzer Grenz infantry Regiment # 5 was destroyed by Molitor's division.

The Franco-Italian army held the line of the Piave for four days, but fell back toward the Brenta River on 21 April.

In September, Bonaparte marched north against Trento in Tyrol, but Wurmser had already marched toward Mantua by the Brenta River valley, leaving Paul Davidovich's force to hold off the French.

The cities of Verona and Vicenza were captured on the 25th and 28th and the Brenta River was crossed, 30 April.

His army was surprised and routed near the Brenta River in the eponymous Battle of the Brenta ( 24 September 899 ).

The nearby Lake of Caldonazzo is the source of the Brenta River.

The city is situated on the Brenta River.

The seaside area was largely modified when, in the late 19th century, the course of Brenta River was changed and, in the 1930s, a dam was built in the San Felice area ( south of Chioggia's port ).

It is long and was first channelled in the 16th century when a long canal was built from the village of Stra to the Adriatic Sea, bypassing Venetian lagoon ; a secondary channel, often named as Riviera del Brenta, was left to connect directly Venice and Padua ( which was a kind of second capital of Venice Republic ).

The most dangerous problems for salvage were the Brenta which contained a booby trap sunk in one hold made of an armed naval mine sitting on three torpedo warheads and Regia Marina minelayer Ostia which had been sunk by the RAF with several of its mines still racked.

The construction of the navigable Battaglia canal in the early 13th century brought traffic and growth to the commune which commanded a central position at the confluence of several canals in the network of barge traffic that linked Este and Padua, the Adriatic, the Lagoon of Venice and the north by means of the Brenta Canal, the canalized Bacchiglione and the Adige.

Most of Italy's rivers drain either into the Adriatic Sea ( like Po, Piave, Adige, Brenta, Tagliamento, Reno ) or into the Thyrrhenian ( like Arno, Tiber and Volturno ), though the waters from some border municipalities ( Livigno in Lombardy, Innichen and Sexten in Trentino-Alto Adige / Südtirol ) drain into the Black Sea through the basin of the Drava, a tributary of the Danube, and the waters from the Lago di Lei in Lombardy drain into the North Sea through the basin of the Rhine.

Several rivers flow through the region: the Po, Adige, Brenta, Bacchiglione, Livenza, Piave, and Tagliamento.

Its highest point is at 1276 m, whereas the lowest point is at 84 m. The city lies at the foothills of the Venetian Prealps, where river Brenta comes out the southern end of Canal di Brenta ( also called Valbrenta ' Brenta valley ') and flows in the lowlands at the borders of Vicenza, Treviso and Padua provinces.

Their products are still manufactured in their original factory by the shores of the river Brenta, in one of the parts of Bassano del Grappa-near Vicenza, in the North-East of Italy.

Industrial districts in Northern Italy have a coherent location and a narrow specialisation profile, e. g. Prato in woolen fabric, Sassuolo in ceramic tiles or Brenta in ladies ' footwear.

During the next century they were engaged in wars with Venice and Vicenza for the right of water-way on the Bacchiglione and the Brenta.

* Villa Contarini, at Piazzola sul Brenta, built in 1546 by Palladio and enlarged in the following centuries, is the most important.

Gian Galeazzo spent 300, 000 golden florins in attempting to turn from their courses the Mincio from Mantua and the Brenta from Padua, in order to render those cities helpless before the force of his arms.

Captain Duroc became aide-de-camp to Napoleon in 1796, and distinguished himself at Isonzo, Brenta and Gradisca in the Italian campaigns of 1796-1797.

Their journey include visits to Ancona, Rimini, Bologna, Parma and its Accademia, Milan, Verona, Vicenza and its buildings by Andrea Palladio, Padua, the Brenta ( river ) with its villas by Palladio, Venice.

Their first collaboration was Arcadia in Brenta followed by four more joint works within a year.

Bonaparte elected to attack the Austrians on the Brenta and called Augereau and Macquard east to join Masséna.

That evening the Austrian field army began its retreat to the Brenta.

121 The Grand Canal probably follows the course of an ancient river ( possibly a branch of the Brenta ) flowing into the lagoon.

Pipo intended to besiege Padua in January, but he couldn't maintain his army on the spot, and moved towards the Brenta, in Cartigliano and Marostica, leading an unsuccessful attack on Vicenza.

The Brenta is an Italian river that runs from Trentino to the Adriatic Sea just south of the Venetian lagoon in the Veneto region.

Starting in the 16th century, many large villas were built along the shores of the Riviera del Brenta.

Northwest of Padua, near the village of Piazzola sul Brenta, not far from the river, Villa Contarini is accesible.

It bounds the communes of Cassola, Marostica, Solagna, Pove del Grappa, Romano d ' Ezzelino, Campolongo sul Brenta, Conco, Rosà, Cartigliano and Nove.

No matter how determined or wealthy boating lovers of the Southwest had been, for example, they could never have created anything approaching the fifty square-mile Lake Texoma, located between Texas and Oklahoma, which resulted when the Corp of Army Engineers dammed the Red River.

There you'll witness a view which includes the Adirondack Mts. and the Winooski River.

At Yalta he thought more about the six million Germans who would have to leave, trying to find work in Germany, and Roosevelt objected to the Western Neisse River being chosen in the south, instead of the Eastern Neisse, both of which flow into the Oder.

Selkirk persuaded eighty men and four officers to go to Red River where they were to serve as a military force to protect his settlers from the hostile Northwest Company which resented the intrusion of farmers into the fur traders' empire.

In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.

In Ireland's County Limerick, near the River Shannon, there is a quiet little suburb by the name of Garryowen, which means `` Garden of Owen ''.

The legend as it exists in Fall River today always includes the solemn assurance that Bridget returned to Ireland after the trial with a `` big bundle '' of cash which Lizzie gave her for keeping her mouth shut.

One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.

* Aa, a river in Antwerp, Belgium which joins the Nete River

Even before Johnston arrived in Tennessee, two forts had been started to defend the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River which provided avenues into the State from the north.

Modern Armenia term means Republic of Armenia which occupies part of historical Armenia, whose ancient centers were in the valley of the Araks River and the region around Lake Van in Turkey.

The lowest points are in the valleys of the Araks River and the Debet River in the far north, which have elevations of, respectively.

To the southwest of the range is the Armenian Plateau, which slopes southwestward toward the Araks River on the Turkish border.

Terrain is most rugged in the extreme southeast, which is drained by the Bargushat River, and most moderate in the Araks River valley to the extreme southwest.

Light chose, not without opposition, a site on rising ground close to the River Torrens, which was the chief early water supply for the fledgling colony.

In the Coastal Plain are the Tombigbee River in the west, the Alabama River ( formed by the Coosa and Tallapoosa ) in the western central, and in the east the Chattahoochee River, which forms almost half of the Georgia boundary.

The Black Warrior River is a considerable stream which joins the Tombigbee from the east.

The true alligators are today represented to two species, A. mississippiensis in the southeastern United States, which can grow to 4. 24 m ( 14 ft ) and weigh 1000 lbs ( 454. 5 kg ) and the small A. sinensis in the Yangtze River, People's Republic of China, which grows to an average of 1. 5 m ( 5 ft ).