What is "adria"

Adria is a town and comune in the province of Rovigo in the Veneto region of Northern Italy, situated between the mouths of the rivers Adige and Po. The remains of the Etruscan city of Atria or Hatria are to be found below the modern city, three to four metres below the current level. Adria and Spina were the Etruscan ports and depots for Felsina (now Bologna). Adria may have given its name during an early period to the Adriatic Sea, to which it was connected by channels.

The Adria was an American assembled car that was promoted though not actually mass-produced. The address of the makers was given as Batavia, New York. About 20 to 40 prototypes were built from 1921 to 1922, but that was as far as the project went. The five-seat touring car was advertised at USD1495.

It was to have a four-cylinder 2932 cc engine made by Supreme and a 3-part frame chassis, which resulted in a patent dispute with Parenti Motors.

Adria is a town in the Veneto region of Italy.

Adria may also refer to:

• Adriatic Sea, a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula
• Adria plate, a tectonic plate located between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate in the central Po plain.
• 143 Adria, an asteroid
• Atri, Italy, a town formerly called Adria, in the Abruzzo region of Italy
• Adria (river), a former channel of the Po delta passing by Adria, Italy
• Adria (motorcycle)
• Region consisting of former Yugoslav republics: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia.

People:

• Ferran Adrià i Acosta, a Catalan chef

In business:

• Adria Airways, Slovenian flag carrier airline
• Adria Mobil, a Slovenian producer of caravans and motorhomes
• Adria and Adriatica, Swiss watch maker
• Air Adriatic, a defunct Croatian charter airline
• Adria International Raceway, an auto racing track in Adria, Italy
• Adria, The Royal Hungarian Sea Navigation Company, based before the First World War in the port of Rijeka/Fiume

In medicine:

• Adriamycin, the trade name for the chemotherapy drug Doxorubicin

In fiction:

• Adria (Stargate), a character in Stargate SG-1
• Adria the witch, a character in the Diablo videogame series.

In Organizations:

• The Adrian Empire, a medieval-reenactment group similar to the Society for Creative Anachronism

Adria ( Greek: ) was a former channel of the Po delta passing by Adria that ceased in the 1st century BC.

This river was mentioned by Hecataeus, by Theopompus and by Ptolemy.

Hecataeus asserts that the Adriatic sea and the town of Adria were named after this river.

The Adria company were better known for their motor vehicle and boat engines, but between 1912 and 1928 they built a range of 276cc, 282cc, 294cc and 346cc side-valve single-cylinder powered bikes.