Adria
Adria | |
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| Città di Adria | |
 Canal Bianco | |
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Location of Adria  | |
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| Postal code | 45011 |
| Dialing code | 0426 |
| Patron saint | Saints Peter and Paul |
| Saint day | 29 June |
| Website | Official website |
Adria is a town and
History
Ancient era
The first
The Etruscans built the port and settlement of Adria after the channel gradually started to run dry. During the later period of the sixth century BC the port continued to flourish. The Etruscan-controlled area of the Po Valley was generally known as
Greeks from Aegina[7] and later from Syracuse by Dionysius I colonised the city making it into an emporion. Greeks had been trading with the Veneti from the sixth century BC at least,[8] especially the amber, originally coming from the Baltic sea.
Mass
Pliny the Elder, a Roman author and fleet commander, wrote about a system of channels in Atria that was, "first made by the Tuscans [i.e. Etruscans], thus discharging the flow of the river across the marshes of the Atriani called the Seven Seas, with the famous harbor of the Tuscan town of Atria which formerly gave the name of Atriatic to the sea now called the Adriatic". Those "Seven Seas" were interlinked coastal lagoons, separated from the open sea by sand pits and barrier islands.[10] The Etruscans extended this natural inland waterway with new canals to extend the navigation possibilities of the tidal reaches of the Po all the way north to Atria. As late as the time of the emperor Vespasian, shallow draft galleys could still be rowed from Ravenna into the heart of Etruria. Under Roman occupation the town ceded importance to Ravenna as the continued siltation of the Po delta carried the seafront further to the east. The sea is now about 22 kilometres (14 miles) from Adria.
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The first exploration of ancient Atria was carried out by Carlo Bocchi and published as Importanza di Adria la Veneta. The collections of the Bocchi family were given to the public at the beginning of the 20th century and comprise a major part of the city museum collection of antiquities.
There are several ideas concerning the etymology of the ancient
Medieval and modern age
At the time of the fall of the
After a period as an independent commune, it was a possession of the Este of Ferrara and, in the 16th century, of the Republic of Venice. At that time Adria was a small village surrounded by malaria-plagued marshes. It recovered its importance when Polesine was reclaimed in the same century.
During the
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Notable people
- Guido Barbujani, population geneticist and evolutionary biologist, born in Adria in 1955
Main sights
- Church of Santa Maria Assunta della Tomba (formerly the cathedral), of medieval origin but rebuilt in 1718. It houses an octagonal Dormitio Virginis, attributed to Michele da Firenze.
- Adria Cathedral, the New Cathedral (Cattedrale Nuova dei Santi Petro i Paulo), dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul
- Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria
Twin towns – sister cities
Ermont, France
Lampertheim, Germany
Maldegem, Belgium
Rovinj, Croatia, since 1982
See also
- Bishopric of Adria
References
- ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ The Archaeology of Etruscan Society by Vedia Izzet, 2008, p. 13: "the Latin atrium is derived from the Etruscan town of Atria (modern Adria), ascribing the form to the houses of the town".
- ^ The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites quoting Strabo (5.1.8) considers that Adria derived its name from the Adriatic Sea; Hecataeus asserts that both Adria and the Adriatic sea derived their names from the Adria river.
- ^ The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe by Barry Cunliffe, 2001, table 4.
- Po River; cf. Celtic *dānu 'river'.
- ISBN 0-19-814099-1): "As a long-distance trading community, Aigina was not an active coloniser, but colonised Kydonia (no. 968) in 519, Adria (no. 75) c. 661, and Damastion in Illyria after 431 (Strabo 8.6.16).”
- ^ The Ancient Mediterranean by Michael Grant, 1988, p. 171: "On the north side of the Delta, sixth century objects have been found at Adria where Greeks traded with the Eneti who inhabited the present Venezia".
- ^ A Companion to the Classical Greek World by Konrad H. Kinzl, 2007, p. 178: "Adria appears to have been a Greek (possibly Aiginetan) emporion, but it also had a substantial Etruscan population, and possibly also Venetic and Celtic elements (Fogolari and Scarfi 1970).”
- ^ Two bands of sand dunes east of the city mark the former sea front in Etruscan-Greek times, and in Roman times. (Princeton Encyclopedia).
- ISBN 1-85986-323-X)
- ^ Paolo Mozzi et al., "Long-term drivers and impacts of abrupt river changes in managed lowlands of the Adige river and northern Po delta (Northern Italy)", Quaternary International , October 2018.
- ^ "Niente festa del gemellaggio ad Adria, tutto rimandato a fine legislatura". rovigooggi.it (in Italian). Rovigo Oggi. 20 February 2020. Archived from the original on 7 October 2020. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Adria". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Adria". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.
External links
- Northern Etruria
- Etruscan Engineering and Agriculture
- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: "Adria"
- Richard Stillwell, ed. Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, 1976: "Adria (Atria), Veneto, Italy
- Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria
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