Piedmont

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专有名词
  1. An administrative region in the north of Italy.
  2. A geographic region and plateau of the eastern United States, between the Appalachian mountains and the coastal plain, extending from eastern Alabama to northern New Jersey.
  3. A small city in Calhoun County and Cherokee County, Alabama, United States.
  4. A city in Alameda County, California, United States.
  5. A small city in Wayne County, Missouri, United States.
  6. A city in Canadian County and Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States.
  7. A census-designated place in Anderson County and Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.
  8. A small city in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.
  9. A small town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States.
  10. A small municipality of Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
  11. A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
  12. Any region that could serve as a basis for national unification, as Piedmont did for the Italian Risorgimento.
    — 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.

词源

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