Adriatic Sea (Veneto)
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Country | Italy | |
region | Veneto | |
province | Rovigo (RO) | |
Local name | Adriatic | |
Coordinates | 45 ° 3 ' N , 12 ° 3' E | |
height | 4 m slm | |
surface | 113 km² | |
Residents | 19,159 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density | 170 inhabitants / km² | |
Post Code | 45011 | |
prefix | 0426 | |
ISTAT number | 029001 | |
Popular name | Adriesi | |
Patron saint | San Bellino | |
Website | Adriatic |
Adria is an Italian city with 19,159 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the north of the Po Delta near the Adige , in the Italian province of Rovigo in Veneto .
geography
The neighboring municipalities are Cavarzere ( VE ), Ceregnano , Corbola , Gavello , Loreo , Papozze , Pettorazza Grimani , San Martino di Venezze , Taglio di Po , Villadose and Villanova Marchesana .
history
As an Etruscan city called Atria , the place was so significant in pre-Christian times that ancient historiographers claimed that the Adriatic Sea was named after the city.
The archaeological tradition begins with a pile dwelling settlement in the Adriatic, Etruscan, Greek and Venetian population elements become visible, which perhaps point to a palaeovenetic settlement as the origin. Adria was since the end of the 6th century BC. BC probably a trading town predominantly inhabited by Etruscans with a port inside a lagoon and a fertile hinterland. The city-state had to be in the 5th century BC BC claim against the competition of the neighboring Spina (near Ravenna ), from the middle of this century a decline of Adriatic can be determined. The Syracusan tyrant Dionysius I (405–367 BC) founded a colony in Adria at the beginning of the 4th century in order to strengthen the control of the Adriatic Sea by the Sicilian polis. Around or around the middle of the 4th century Adriatic came under Celtic rule, in the 2nd century BC. A Romanization process can be identified. The place had connection to the Roman road system, u. a. to Rimini ( Via Popillia , 131 BC) and Padua ( Via Annia , 128 BC). At the end of the 2nd or 1st century BC, Adria became a Roman municipality , and like all Venetians, the inhabitants of Adriatic had Roman citizenship . In the 2nd century AD, the history of the port city essentially ended; the port silted up, Ravenna increasingly took over the functions of the Adriatic. Adria itself is now over 15 km from the sea.
Attractions
There is an archaeological museum in the city.
Town twinning
Adria maintains a partnership with the German city of Lampertheim in the Bergstrasse district .
sons and daughters of the town
- Luigi Groto (1541–1585), blind poet
- Antonio Buzzolla (1815–1871), composer
- Romano Guarnieri (1883–1955), Romanist, Italianist and foreign language teacher
- Ettore Zorzi (1885–1958), Mayor of Venice (1929–1930)
- Fernando Previtali (1907–1985), conductor, composer and music writer
- Nello Santi (1931–2020), opera conductor
- Giorgio Lamberti (* 1938), opera singer (tenor)
- Nello Rossati (1942–2009), film director and screenwriter
- Paolo Piva (1950–2017), Austrian-Italian architect, designer and artist
See also
literature
- Giovannangelo Camporeale : The Etruscans. History and culture. Düsseldorf – Zurich 2003, pp. 521–527
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.