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- A region of northern Italy bordering on Switzerland. First inhabited by a Gallic people, it became the center of the kingdom of the Lombards in the sixth century AD and part of Charlemagne's empire in 774. The Lombard League of cities defeated Emperor Frederick I in 1176.
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- proper noun A region situated in northern
Italy , where its capital and the largest cityMilan is founded in thePo Valley.
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- noun a region of north central Italy bordering Switzerland
Etymologies
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I live in Lombardy (Northern Italy), where the Regional Health Service started three years ago a project to store all Lombardy citizens health data on a database accessible from every medical center, physician or hospital via Internet, using a personal IC-card to encrypt data.
Google Health Begins Its Preseason at Cleveland Clinic - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Others, in Lombardy, advocated a strict observance of Mosaic law.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Another Italian heretical group, the Passagians in Lombardy, based their beliefs on a literal reading of the Old Testament and a strict observance of Mosaic law, including the ritual of circumcision.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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In the ninth century the name Lombardy was synonymous with Italy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Settlements were offered to the Goths in Lombardy, and they advanced from the Po towards the Alps to take possession of them.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Lombardy is a race in which Horner has always excelled (he was one of the men in the final selection last year), and with stronger team support than before on a course that better suits his abilities in his best-ever season, the evergreen Californian has to be one of Gilbert’s strongest challengers.
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Italy; notwithstanding that two hundred years before the Romans became so powerful that the said Tuscans lost the Dominion of that country which today is called Lombardy: which province had been seized by the Gauls, who, moved either by necessity or the sweetness of the fruits, and especially of the wine, came into
Discourses 2003
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They seized the territory north of the river Po -- a region ever since known as Lombardy -- and established their capital at Pavia.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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The newcomers first occupied the region north of the Po, which has ever since been called Lombardy after them, and then extended their conquests southward.
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe James Harvey Robinson 1899
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In 568 the Lombards marched from Pannonia into Italy, conquered the northern part, still called Lombardy, and founded the kingdom of that name, which was afterward greatly extended, and existed until overthrown by Charlemagne in 774.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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