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Francesca Segat (born 21 January 1983 Vittorio Veneto, Treviso), swimmer who has competed and won medals for Italy in International Competitions. Sara Simeoni (born 19 April 1953) is a former high jumper, who won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics and set two times a world record in her speciality.
People from the Metropolitan City of Venice (14 C, 5 P) ... Pages in category "People from Veneto" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Relief map of Veneto. Veneto is the 8th largest region in Italy, with a total area of 18,398.9 km 2 (7,103.9 sq mi). It is located in the north-eastern part of Italy and is bordered to the east by Friuli-Venezia Giulia, to the south by Emilia-Romagna, to the west by Lombardy and to the north by Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol.
Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy.Veneti are in brown. The Veneti (sometimes also referred to as Venetici, Ancient Veneti or Paleoveneti to distinguish them from the modern-day inhabitants of the Veneto region, called Veneti in Italian) were an Indo-European people who inhabited northeastern Italy, in an area corresponding to the ...
The unification of Veneto with Italy was the result of the Austro-Prussian War, won by the Prussians, Italy's allies. In the Italian unification process, the conflict is known as Third War of Independence. Austria lost Venetia, ceded to Napoleon III of France, who in turn ceded it to Italy.
The Statute of Veneto was promulgated in 1971 and largely rewritten in 2011. Article 1 defines Veneto as an "autonomous Region", "constituted by the Venetian people and the lands of the provinces of Belluno, Padua, Rovigo, Treviso, Venice, Verona and Vicenza", while maintaining "bonds with Venetians in the world".
A sign in Venetian reading "Here Venetian is also spoken" Distribution of Romance languages in Europe. Venetian is number 15. Venetian, [7] [8] also known as wider Venetian or Venetan [9] [10] (łengua vèneta [ˈɰeŋɡwa ˈvɛneta] or vèneto), is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy, [11] mostly in Veneto, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it.
Adriatic Veneti, an ancient historical Italic people of northeastern Italy, who spoke an Italic language; Vistula Veneti, an ancient Indo-European people of uncertain origin, who lived near the Vistula River and the Baltic Sea; Veneti, modern residents of the Veneto region of Italy; Vənədi, a village in Azerbaijan