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piedmont
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Piedmont \Pied"mont\, a. [F. pied foot + mont mountain.] (Geol.) Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
name given to the fertile upland region along the eastern slope of the Appalachians, 1755, originally piemont, from Italian Piemonte, literally "mountain foot," name of the region at the foot of the Alps in northern Italy (see Piedmont). With -d- added by 1855. Applied to similar features of other mountain ranges by 1860.
Wiktionary
a. Formed or lying at the foot of a mountain range. n. Any region of foothills of a mountain range.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 959
Land area (2000): 2.084711 sq. miles (5.399377 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.084711 sq. miles (5.399377 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57422
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.153868 N, 90.695766 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 63957
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Housing Units (2000): 3859
Land area (2000): 1.687860 sq. miles (4.371537 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.687860 sq. miles (4.371537 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56938
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 37.821994 N, 122.231405 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 94611 94618
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Housing Units (2000): 1270
Land area (2000): 43.823942 sq. miles (113.503485 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.095708 sq. miles (0.247883 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 43.919650 sq. miles (113.751368 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58700
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.670849 N, 97.751903 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73078
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Piedmont
Housing Units (2000): 1992
Land area (2000): 8.584527 sq. miles (22.233822 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.161160 sq. miles (0.417403 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.745687 sq. miles (22.651225 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56365
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 34.704140 N, 82.461427 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29673
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Housing Units (2000): 2495
Land area (2000): 9.754829 sq. miles (25.264889 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.754829 sq. miles (25.264889 sq. km)
FIPS code: 59640
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 33.926005 N, 85.613137 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 36272
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Housing Units (2000): 499
Land area (2000): 0.420156 sq. miles (1.088200 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.420156 sq. miles (1.088200 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63604
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 39.480232 N, 79.048086 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 26750
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Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Piedmont ( ; , ; Piedmontese and ; ) is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres (9,808 sq mi) and a population of about 4.6 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin.
__NOTOC__ In physical geography, piedmont means a region of foothills of a mountain range. It appears in the proper name of several regions.
The Piedmont was a car made by the Piedmont Motor Car Company, Inc, of Lynchburg, Virginia.
The Piedmont or Piedmont Service is a twice-daily passenger train operated by Amtrak and the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) between Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina. Operation began in May 1995. North Carolina owns the rolling stock used on the Piedmont, unlike the Carolinian which uses Amtrak rolling stock.
The Piedmont is a plateau region located in the eastern United States between the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the main Appalachian Mountains, stretching from New Jersey in the north to central Alabama in the south. The Piedmont province is a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian division. The province consists of the Piedmont Upland and Piedmont Lowlands sections.
The Atlantic Seaboard fall line marks its eastern boundary with the Coastal Plain. To the west, the Piedmont is mostly bounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains, the easternmost range of the main Appalachians. Physiographically, the Piedmont is considered a province of the larger Appalachian Highlands physiographic division. The width of the Piedmont varies, being quite narrow above the Delaware River but nearly 300 miles (475 km) wide in North Carolina. The Piedmont's area is approximately .
The name "Piedmont" comes from the French term for the same physical region, literally meaning "foothill", ultimately from Latin "pedemontium", meaning "the foot of the mountains". The region is named after the Italian region of Piedmont, the lowlands which abut the Alps.
Piedmont is a historic home and farm located near Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia. The main house was built in two sections. The older sections is a two-story, three-bay, gable-roofed log half (now stuccoed), that was built possibly as early as the late-18th century. Attached perpendicular to the log section is a two-story, gable roofed brick half built in 1838. The house exhibits Greek Revival and Federal design details. Also on the property are a log smokehouse, log slave cabin and the ruins of a large stone chimney and hearth.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
Usage examples of "piedmont".
It had been occupied by a powerful colony of Gauls, who, settling themselves along the banks of the Po, from Piedmont to Romagna, carried their arms and diffused their name from the Alps to the Apennine.
Constantine preferred the road of the Cottian Alps, or, as it is now called, of Mount Cenis, and led his troops with such active diligence, that he descended into the plain of Piedmont before the court of Maxentius had received any certain intelligence of his departure from the banks of the Rhine.
I do not mention the Vaudois valleys of Piedmont, for I am told these were Protestant before either Huss or Luther preached.
In the case of the states and provinces--except Lombardy, ceded to France by Austria, and sold to the Sardinian king--annexed to Piedmont to form the new kingdom of Italy, the plebiscitum was invalid, because implying the right of the people to rebel against the legal authority, and to break the unity and individuality of the state of which they form an integral part.
Your father did not hesitate an instant, and the sum was sent to the frontier of Piedmont, with a passport signed for Italy.
Flanders after the-battle of Ramillies, the duke of Orleans was placed at the head of the army in Piedmont, under the tutorage and direction of the mareschal de Marsin.
AND A HALF HOURS LATER, Pardee was standing in the public library of Piedmont, Alabama.
Albanian brigands, the banditti of Piedmont, the Lanzknechte and Freiritter of the Rhine, Algerine picaroons, and other such folk.
If there was an organized gang of marauders, they might only now be moving into the backcountry, after a winter spent lying low in the piedmont.
The rest are counts, marquises, and barons of the usual kind, some from Piedmont and some from Savoy.
Bonnivard, a Genevese, was imprisoned by the Duke of Savoy in Chillon on the lake of Geneva for his courageous defence of his country against the tyranny with which Piedmont threatened it during the first half of the seventeenth century.
He was no doubt checking out the Nebbiolo grapes in Piedmont or the Sangiovese grapes in Tuscany, the short- or long-vatting of producers, haggling for prices or position in the distribution chain, and making money they never spent.
Madame Razzetti, from Piedmont, the wife of one of the violin players at the opera, and said to be courted by M.
Lord Piedmont nor the Seven Sages of Limpus, could prescribe a method by which a terrestrial object could overcome the atmospheric tides and the pressures of the suspended globes of the heavens in order to sail to and from the moon!
Vaux, another styled the President's lady, and a fourth, fair as the dawn, Madame Razzetti, from Piedmont, the wife of one of the violin players at the opera, and said to be courted by M.