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Briançon ( French: [bʁijɑ̃sɔ̃] ⓘ, Occitan: [bɾjanˈsun]) is the sole subprefecture of the Hautes-Alpes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. It is the highest city in France at an altitude of 1,326 metres (4,350 feet), based on the national definition as a community containing more than 2,000 ...
Features. The France–Italy border is mainly mountainous. It is 515 kilometres (320 mi) long, in southeast France and northwest Italy. It begins at the west tripoint of France–Italy–Switzerland near the top of Mont Dolent (3,820 m), in the French commune of Chamonix (department of Haute-Savoie), the Italian city of Courmayeur (Aosta Valley) and the Swiss commune of Orsières (canton of Valais
France Toulouse: 1 July 1975 1 July 1989 1975 France Paris 1989 France Paris & Switzerland Geneva: France Bordeaux 1989: 1 July 1982 1 July 2001 France Marseille: Indonesia Jakarta: 1 July 1975 1 July 1985 1 July 1995 Singapore: 1 Jan 1981 1 July 1989 extant Italy Padova: 1 July 1975 1 July 1990 Italy Rome: 1 July 1982 1 July 2002 Korea Busan ...
Floridia ( Italian pronunciation: [floˈriːdja]; Sicilian: Ciuriḍḍia [3] [çʊˈɾiɖɖja]; from Latin Florae dies "day of Flora " or the adjective floridus "florid") [4] is a town and comune in the Province of Syracuse, Sicily ( Italy ).
The village of Italia was founded in 1882 by Irish-born entrepreneur William MacWilliams (1840-1887). It was located at milepost 18 on the Florida Transit Railway, which ran from Fernandina on the Atlantic coast to Cedar Key on the Gulf of Mexico. The owner of the railroad, former Senator David Yulee, convinced MacWilliams to build a brick ...
This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as we know it – as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
Lake Como ( Italian: Lago di Como [ˈlaːɡo di ˈkɔːmo], locally [ˈkoːmo], [a] also known as Lario ( Italian: [ˈlaːrjo]; after the Latin: Larius Lacus ), is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy . It has an area of 146 square kilometres (56 sq mi), making it the third-largest lake in Italy, after Lake Garda and Lake Maggiore.
Asolo ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈaːzolo]) is a town and comune in the Veneto Region of northern Italy. It is known as "The Pearl of the province of Treviso ", and also as "The City of a Hundred Horizons" for its mountain settings. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy"). [3]