In between the two lies a large plain in the valley of the Po, the largest river in Italy, which flows eastward from the Cottian Alps to the Adriatic.

In 200 BC the Roman Republic had gained control of the Italian peninsula south of the Po river.

Soon the Romans became aware of a burgeoning alliance between Carthage and the Celts of the Po river valley in northern Italy.

The Po (,, ancient Ligurian: Bodincus or Bodencus, ) is a river that flows either or – considering the length of the Maira, a right bank tributary – eastward across northern Italy, from a spring seeping from a stony hillside at Pian del Re, a flat place at the head of the Val Po under the northwest face of Monviso ( in the Cottian Alps ) through a delta projecting into the Adriatic Sea near Venice.

The Po is the longest river in Italy ; at its widest point its width is.

On February 24, 2010 the Po river was contaminated by an oil spill coming from a refinery in Villasanta through the Lambro, the Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata news agency has estimated that the spill is in the neighborhood of 600, 000 liters.

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It is broadly contiguous with the upper part of the drainage basin of the river Po, which rises from the slopes of Monviso in the west of the region and it's Italy ’ s largest river.

The term Quaternary (" fourth ") was proposed by Giovanni Arduino in 1759 for alluvial deposits in the Po river valley in northern Italy.

The waters of the Po River are so infected with blood, it is said, that for six years the inhabitants of Ravenna will not eat fish from the river.

Milan is located in the north-western section of the great Po Valley, between the rivers Ticino and Adda, among the river Po and the first reliefs of the Alps.

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The north-south extension of Veneto is from the Austrian border to the mouth of the Po and its east-west extension is from the eastern shore of Lake Garda on the west to the mouth of the river Tagliamento on the east.

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Pavia (; Lombard Pavia ; ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po.

The origin of Ferrara is uncertain, it was probably settled by the inhabitants of the lagoons at the mouth of Po river ; there are two early centers of settlement, one round the cathedral, the other, the castrum bizantino, being the San Pietro district, on the opposite shore, where the Primaro empties into the Volano channel.

Seafood is an important part of the town tradition, due to the vicinity to the sea, and grilled or stewed eel from the river Po delta is especially appreciated.

The clay terroir of the area, an alluvial plain created by the river Po, is not ideal for wine ; a notable exception is the Vini del Bosco Eliceo ( DOC ), made from grapes cultivated on the sandy coast line.

* Delta of the river Po such as Bonifica Valle del Mezzano

These receive the waters of the river Mincio, a tributary of the Po which descends from Lake Garda.

* 1427 – The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River.

Cycling is a popular means of transport in many parts of the New Territories, where new towns such as Shatin, Tai Po and Sheung Shui have significant cycle track networks.

The Po Valley is the largest plain in Italy, with, and it represents over 70 % of the total plain area in the country.

Polonium ( ) is a chemical element with the symbol Po and atomic number 84, discovered in 1898 by Marie and Pierre Curie.

< sup > 210 </ sup > Po ( half-life 138. 376 days ) is the most widely available.

< sup > 210 </ sup > Po is an alpha emitter that has a half-life of 138. 4 days ; it decays directly to its stable daughter isotope, < sup > 206 </ sup > Pb.

A few curies ( 1 curie equals 37 gigabecquerels, 1 Ci = 37 GBq ) of < sup > 210 </ sup > Po emit a blue glow which is caused by excitation of surrounding air.

However, it is the alpha particles, not the side effect of an occasional gamma ray, that results in < sup > 210 </ sup > Po decay.

< sup > 210 </ sup > Po ( in common with < sup > 238 </ sup > Pu ) has the ability to become airborne with ease: if a sample is heated in air to 55 ° C ( 131 ° F ), 50 % of it is vaporized in 45 hours, even though the melting point of polonium is 254 ° C ( 489 ° F ) and its boiling point is 962 ° C ( 1763 ° F ).< ref >

Near the end of its course, it creates a wide delta ( with hundreds of small channels and five main ones, called Po di Maestra, Po della Pila, Po delle Tolle, Po di Gnocca and Po di Goro ) at the southern part of which is Comacchio, an area famous for eels.

The vast valley around the Po is called the Po Basin or Po Valley ( Italian Pianura Padana or Val Padana ); in time it became the main industrial area of the country.

The Po Delta wetlands have been protected by the institution of two regional parks in the regions in which it is situated: Veneto and Emilia-Romagna.

Exactly at the head of the gulf the great peak of the Cameroon, on a line of volcanic action continued by the islands to the south-west, has a height of, while Clarence Peak, in Fernando Po, the first of the line of islands, rises to over.

Polonium solutions are first colored in pink by the Po < sup > 2 +</ sup > ions, but then rapidly become yellow because alpha radiation from polonium ionizes the solvent and converts Po < sup > 2 +</ sup > into Po < sup > 4 +</ sup >.

The diversion channel was at first called the Po di Ficarolo.

The major authority on the lower Po was the Magistrato alle Acque di Venezia, first formed in the 16th-century Republic of Venice.

* Chinese poet Li Po meets Du Fu for the first time.

In 2012 will be launched the first Reims Model United Nations, which will gather 200 international students from all the Sciences Po campuses.

From the St. Gotthard to the Maloja the watershed between the basins of the Rhine and Po runs in an easterly direction as a whole, though making two great dips towards the south, first to near the Vogelberg ( 3, 220 m ) and again to near the Pizz Gallagiun ( 3, 107 m ), so that it presents a broken and irregular appearance.

The first newspaper to openly publish the musical notation and lyric of " Indonesia Raya " — an act of defiance towards the Dutch authorities — was the Chinese Indonesian weekly Sin Po.

He moved his school twice: first to Castle Peak Road in Sham Shui Po and then to Lee Tat Street ( 利達街 ) in Yau Ma Tei.

Their first album, 200 Po Vstrechnoy was released on May 21, 2001.

It was the first among the Gauls of the Po valley.

On June 1865 the first railway bridge over Po river in northern Italy was inaugurated ( in southern Italy a railroad bridge had already been built in 1839 ).

Cremona is first mentioned in history as a settlement of the Cenomani, a Gallic ( Celtic ) tribe that arrived in the Po valley around 400 BC.

In 218 BC the Romans established on that spot their first military outpost ( a colonia ) north of the Po river, and kept the old name.

In the first stage, the town of Sham Shui Po was bounded by Yen Chow Street, Tung Chau Street, Wong Chuk Street and Apliu Street.

In July 2003 the Hong Kong Housing Society ( HKHS ) announced that its first urban renewal project would be to improve the living environment at Po On Road / Wai Wai Road in Sham Shui Po.

Tai Po FC is the first district football team ever to make it to the Hong Kong First Division League among the 19 district football sides from the Hong Kong Third District Division League.

Then, the line first runs underneath Nathan Road ( Tsim Sha Tsui to Prince Edward ), then Cheung Sha Wan Road ( Sham Shui Po to Lai Chi Kok ), before emerging from the hills at Lai King Station.

Wen Wei Po is a Hong Kong-based Chinese language newspaper, first established in Shanghai in January 1938, with the Hong Kong version launched on 9 September 1948.