WebThe Apennines or Apennine Mountains (/ ˈ æ p ən aɪ n /; Greek: Ἀπέννινα ὄρη or Ἀπέννινον ὄρος; Latin: Appenninus or Apenninus Mons – a singular with plural meaning; Italian: Appennini [appenˈniːni]) are a mountain range consisting of parallel smaller chains extending c. 1,200 km (750 mi) along the length of peninsular Italy. ...

WebHistory. In 1861, Italian provinces were established on the French republican model. Italian Fascism saw the end of elections in the Province of Parma in the 1920s until the end of the Second World War.. Geography. The province is divided into three zones from north to south: the pianura (plains), the collina (hills) and the montagna (mountains). The Po river …

WebThe Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 1972.It is popularly called the Moon buggy, a play on the term dune buggy.. Each LRV was carried to the Moon folded up in the Lunar Module's Quadrant 1 Bay. After being …

WebMarche (/ ˈ m ɑːr k eɪ / MAR-kay, Italian: ()) is one of the twenty regions of Italy.In English, the region is sometimes referred to as The Marches (/ ˈ m ɑːr tʃ ɪ z / MAR-chiz). The region is located in the central area of the country, bordered by Emilia-Romagna and the republic of San Marino to the north, Tuscany to the west, Umbria to the southwest, Abruzzo and …

WebL'Aquila (/ ˈ l æ k w ɪ l ə / LAK-wil-ə, Italian: [ˈlaːkwila] ()) is a city and comune in central Italy. It is the capital city of both the Abruzzo region and of the Province of L'Aquila.As of 2013, it has a population of 70,967 inhabitants.Laid out within medieval walls on a hill in the wide valley of the Aterno river, it is surrounded by the Apennine Mountains, with the …

WebHadley–Apennine is located west of the Montes Apenninus and east of Hadley Rille. The Apennine mountains form a 15,000 foot (4,600 m) escarpment that rises higher above the Hadley plain than the Himalayan front above the plains of India and Nepal. Hadley Rille (also referred to as Rima Hadley) is located to the west of the Apollo 15 landing site and was …

WebItalian (italiano [itaˈljaːno] or lingua italiana [ˈliŋɡwa itaˈljaːna]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 million people (2022), Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland …

WebThe Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus lupus), also known as the common wolf, is a subspecies of grey wolf native to Europe and Asia. It was once widespread throughout Eurasia prior to the Middle Ages.Aside from an extensive paleontological record, Indo-European languages typically have several words for "wolf", thus attesting to the animal's abundance and …

WebThe Italian wolf (Canis lupus italicus or Canis lupus lupus), also known as the Apennine wolf, is a subspecies of the grey wolf native to the Italian Peninsula.It inhabits the Apennine Mountains and the Western Alps, though it is undergoing expansion towards the north and east.As of 2022 the wolf population within Italy is estimated to be 3,307 individuals.

WebIn the Apennine Mountains at elevations above 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) species include alpine orchid, mountain juniper, silver fir, black cranberry and the Abruzzo edelweiss. The fauna of Abruzzo is very diverse, including the region's symbol, the Abruzzo chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica ornata), which has recovered from near-extinction.