Example sentences for: emilia

How can you use “emilia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Each of the five areas has a principal city as a focus or starting point: Rome for central Italy, plus Sardinia; Florence for Tuscany, with Umbria, and the Adriatic seaside resorts to the east; Venice for Veneto, the Dolomites, and Emilia’s historic towns from Parma to Ravenna; Milan for Lombardy, Piedmont, and the Italian Riviera to the west; and Naples for the south and Sicily.

  • The two regions were united at the time of the 19th-century Risorgimento, with Emilia following the Apennines from Bologna to Piacenza, while Romagna covers the eastern area of Ravenna and the Adriatic resorts around Rimini down to Cattolica.

  • The divisions resulted in Veneto (Venice and its hinterland), Emilia (between Ravenna and Modena), and Pentapolo (between Rimini and Perugia), plus Rome and Naples (with Sicily and Calabria).

  • The 27 b.c. triumphal arch (Arco d’Augusto), anachronistically ornamented with medieval battlements, stands at the junction of the imperial highways from ancient Rome: Via Flaminia and Via Emilia (which gave the region its name).

  • A year later, Cavour negotiated the handover of Emilia and Tuscany.


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