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Encyclopedia > Acqui

Acqui Terme (Äich in Piedmontese) is a city and episcopal seat of Piedmont, Italy, in the province of Alessandria; it is 21 miles SSW of Alessandria by rail. Population is 19,183. Piedmontese (also known as Piemontese, Piemontèis) is spoken by some 3 million people in Piedmont, northwest Italy. ... The word episcopal is derived from the Greek επισκοπος epískopos, which literally means overseer; the word, however, is used in religious contexts to refer to a bishop. ... Piedmont is a region of northwestern Italy. ... Alessandria (It. ... Alessandria is a strongly fortified and stirring town and provincial capital on the river Tanaro, in Piedmont, Italy, 55 miles southeast of Turin. ...


The warm sulphur springs of Aquae Statiellae were famous in Roman time:, and Paulus Diaconus and the chronicler Liutprand speak of the ancient baths. In the neighborhood of the town are remains of the aqueduct which supplied it. The place was connected by road with Alba Pompeia and Augusta Taurinorum (Turin). The local tribe of the Statielli had joined the Romans at an early period, but were attacked in 173 BCE and some were transferred to the north of the Po. The town possesses a fine Gothic cathedral. Paul the Deacon (c. ... Liutprand (Liudprand, Luitprand) (c. ... Location within Italy Region Piedmont Province Turin Area   – Total   – Water 130 km² (50 mi²) ##.# km² (#.# mi²) #.##% Population   – Total (2002)   – Density 857,433 6,596/km² Time zone CET: UTC+1 Latitude Longitude   45°04′ N 7°40′ E1. ... PO or po may stand for: the Po River in Italy Pô, the town in Burkina Faso Pô (département), part of the Napoleonic Empire Po, one of the Teletubbies. ...


This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain. Supporters contend that the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) represents, in many ways, the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...


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EC-JRC: The JRC-Acquis Multilingual Parallel Corpus (648 words)
The Acquis Communautaire (AC) is the total body of European Union (EU) law applicable the the EU Member States.
The Acquis Communautaire thus is a collection of parallel texts in the following 22 languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Maltese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene and Swedish.
The JRC Workshop on Exploiting multilingual parallel corpora (26-27 September 2005) was dedicated to exploring methods to exploit the Acquis Communautaire and similar corpora.
Acquis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (458 words)
The French term acquis (or sometimes acquis communautaire) is used in European Union law to refer to the total body of EU law accumulated so far.
During the process of the enlargement of the European Union, the acquis was divided into 31 chapters for the purpose of negotiation between the EU and the candidate member states for the fifth enlargement (the ten that joined in 2004 plus Romania and Bulgaria).
The term acquis has been borrowed by the World Trade Organization Appellate Body, in the case Japan - Taxes on Alcoholic Beverages, to refer to the accumulation of GATT and WTO law ("acquis gattien"), though this usage is not well established.
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