Padua (, Latin: Patavium,, Ancient German: Esten ) is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy.

The city had some importance as a way-station on the important road from Mediolanum ( Milan ) to Aquileia, near Tergeste ( Trieste ), but it was overshadowed by its neighbor Patavium ( Padua ).

After a thorough scientific and philosophical training at the University of Padua, he began his career in the service of his native city.

Together with Padua and Treviso, the city is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area ( PATREVE ) ( population 1, 600, 000 ).

Padua claims to be the oldest city in northern Italy.

The city did not easily recover from this blow, and Padua was still weak when the Franks succeeded the Lombards as masters of northern Italy.

At the Diet of Aix-la-Chapelle ( 828 ), the duchy and march of Friuli, in which Padua lay, was divided into four counties, one of which took its title from the city of Padua.

The end of the early Middle Ages at Padua was marked by the sack of the city by the Magyars in 899.

In 1797 the Venetian Republic was wiped off the map by the Treaty of Campo Formio, and Padua was ceded to the Austrian Empire ; then in 1806 the city passed to the French puppet Kingdom of Italy.

This was just 50 – 60 km from Padua, and the city was now in range from the Austrian artillery.

One story has Theano and Antenor sailing with Aeneas to Italy and founding the city of Padua.

Three years later the Vicentines entrusted the protection of the city to Padua, so as to safeguard republican liberty ; but this protectorate ( custodia ) quickly became dominion, and for that reason Vicenza in 1311 submitted to the Scaligeri lords of Verona, who fortified it against the Visconti of Milan.

The appearance of the plague at Padua forced him to return to his native city.

Two years later he revisited Venice, but returned to Padua when the plague broke out in his native city.

This part of Italy also boasts several important tourist attractions, such as the canal-filled city of Venice, the cities of Verona, Vicenza, Padua, Trento, Bolzano, Bologna, Ferrara, Piacenza, Parma, Ravenna and Trieste.

Named after the Catholic saint Anthony of Padua, the falls is the birthplace of the former city of St. Anthony and to Minneapolis when the two cities joined in 1872 to fully use its economic power for milling operations.

A bronze statue was erected in his honor by the citizens of Padua, while his native city commemorated their great compatriot by a marble statue.

At the age of 8, his family settled in Manchester, New Hampshire's largest city, where he attended the parochial elementary school of Saint Anthony of Padua and Trinity High School.

Maraschino ( ) is a bittersweet, clear liqueur flavored with Marasca cherries, which are originary from Dalmatia ( Croatia ) and today, mostly grow around the city of Zadar and in Torreglia ( near Padua in Northern Italy ).

The University of Padua ( Italian Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD ) is a premier Italian university located in the city of Padua, Italy.

Čakovec is the first city of the former Yugoslavia to have installed completely electronic information spots, that are located at the Republic Square and Franciscan Square in the Center and at the Square of Saint Anthony of Padua in the Jug district.

At Americana these Italian immigrants built their first church in 1896, dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua, who eventually became the patron saint of the city.

The first church at Americana was built in the middle of 1896 and dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua, who became the patron saint of the city.

There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.

I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.

It is remembered and has been commemorated by a bust in a park and a square in the city which was renamed Piazzo Lauro Di Bosis after the war.

The inference has been too widely accepted that because the Communists have succeeded in building barricades across Berlin the free world must acquiesce in dismemberment of that living city.

Falling somewhere in a category between Einstein's theory and sand fleas -- difficult to see but undeniably there, nevertheless -- is the tropical green `` city '' of Islandia, a string of offshore islands that has almost no residents, limited access and an unlimited future.

The city has a stake in stimulating growth and purchasing power throughout outstate Missouri and Southern Illinois.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

When a city has arranged things like this you cannot easily change them.

If the distant patron of the suburban branch has been frightened away from downtown by traffic problems, however, the city store can only pressure the politicians to do something about the highways or await the completion of the federal highway program.

`` For three days now a German reconnaissance plane has been over the city taking pictures.

Land within commuting distance of a growing city is usually high in price, higher if it has subdivision possibilities.

`` Washington '', President Kennedy has been heard to remark ironically, `` is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm ''.

In the city, he said, the waiting list for those who want to join the union is so long that unless a boy has an inside track he can't get in.

One of the hardest chores a detective has is hanging around on a city street, trying to make himself inconspicuous, keeping an eye on the entrance of an office building and waiting.

Mr. Hawksley, the state's general treasurer, has been a part-time CD director in the city for the last nine years.

These contend there is a serious question as to whether Mr. Wagner has the confidence of the Democratic rank and file in the city.

The city has sued for the full amount of the $172,400 performance bond covering the contract.

Gladden has been an outspoken critic of the present city administration and led his union's battle against the teamsters, which began organizing city firemen in 1959.

Mrs. Mary Self, who knows more than any other person about the 5,000 city employes for whom she has kept personnel records over the years, has closed her desk and retired.

A startlingly high percentage do not exceed $500 annually, which includes the librarian's salary, and not even the New York Public has enough money to meet its needs -- this in the world's richest city.

Practically everybody in Berlin has relatives and friends that live in the opposite part of the city.

As soon as the fox has taken hold on most of the populace he imports more wharf rats, who, of course, say they are the aggrieved victims of an extermination campaign in the city.

In describing the initial Allied occupation of a middle-sized German city, the picture has color, pictorial pull and genuinely moving moments.