Cadore, a town and contado (countship) of in the North Italian region of Friuli, is a barren and poor district, watered by the Piave torrent poured forth from the Carnic Alps, and is at no great distance from Tirol. Friuli (Furlan: Friûl, German: Friaul) is an area of north-eastern Italy, comprising the major part of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region; the historical Friuli is the land de Livence al Timâf, which means from the Livenza river in the west to the Timavo river in the east... Piave (from Latin Plavis ) is a river in north Italy. ... Marcus Tullius Tiro (c. ...

The dogal republic of Venice conquered Friuli at a date not very remote from the birth of Titian, its most famous son; and Cadore, having to choose between Venetian and imperial allegiance, declared for the former.

At the neighboring village of Valle was fought in Titians lifetime the battle of Cadore, a Venetian victory which he recorded in a painting.

In the 12th century the count of Camino became also conte de Cadore. He was called Guecello; and this name descended in 1321 to the podesta (or mayor, under Venetian rule) of Cadore, of the same stock to which the painter belonged. Titian, one of a family of four, and son of Gregorio Vecelli, a distinguished councillor and soldier, and of his wife Lucia, was born in 1477. Camino is a Mac OS X web browser based on Mozilla. ... For information on the phantom island of the same name, see Podesta (island). ...

Approaching the castle of Cadore from the village Sotto Castello, one passes on the right a cottage of humble pretensions, inscribed as Titians birthplace; the precise locality is named Arsenale. The near mountains in all this range of hills being of dolomite, the formation is called Marmarolo from the Italian for marble. Titian. ... Dolomite crystals from Touissite, Morocco Dolomite is the name of both a carbonate rock and a mineral (formula: CaMg(CO3)2) consisting of a calcium magnesium carbonate found in crystals. ...

Napoleon Bonaparte created it a duché grand-fief, a rare -but- nominal- hereditary honor of ducal rank (extinguished in 1893), for his minister and amiral Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny. Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny (1756 - 1834) was a French politician. ...

Sources and references

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
• Heraldica.org Napoleonic heraldry