Piedmont

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English

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Etymology

Derived from Italian Piemonte (“mountain foot”), from Medieval Latin Pedemontium, Pedemontis, from Latin ad pedem montium.

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Piedmont

  2. An administrative region in the north of Italy.
  3. The region of the eastern US between the Appalachian mountains and the coastal plain, extending from eastern Alabama to northern New Jersey.
  4. A city in Alameda County, California, United States.
  5. (historiography) Any region that could serve as a basis for national unification, as Piedmont did for the Italian Risorgimento.
    • 1972, Dakin, The Unification of Greece, 1770–1923, →ISBN, page 262:
      As it was, Greece had no 'Piedmont' with which to begin her Unification – no Piedmont to make alliances with other states, no Piedmontese bureaucracy and diplomatic service, no well-equipped and well-supplied regular army.
    • 1994, White, The Territorial Component of Nationalism in Southeastern Europe: The Cases of the Hungarians, Romanians, and Serbs, page 273:
      The rise of an independent Bulgarian state challenged the view of many Serbs that they were the "Piedmont" of the Balkans, the ones to unify all Balkan Slavs.
    • 2002, Magocsi, The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism: Galicia as Ukraine's Piedmont, →ISBN, page 20:
      The more influental National Democratic party was founded in 1899, and it hoped to work through existing channels in Austria to create a separate Ukrainian province of eastern Galicia, which someday might become the Piedmont of an independent Ukrainian state on both sides of the Austro-Russian border.

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French

Etymology

The name of the municipality is derived from piémont (“foothill”).

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Piedmont m

  1. A municipality of Les Pays-d'en-Haut, Laurentides, Quebec, Canada

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