 Flag Ratio: 1:2 The Northern League's proposed Padanian flag, the Alps' star, an ancient Celtic symbol Padania is an alternative name for Northern Italy, which was sparingly used until the beginning of the 1990s, when the Northern League political party (in Italian, Lega Nord) proposed it as the denomination of a common homeland for northern Italians dissatisfied with the Italian government. Therefore, since the 1990s the term carries strong political implications in the Italian context. Image File history File links Flag_of_Padania. ...
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Northern Italy encompasses nine of the countrys 20 autonomous regions: Emilia-Romagna Friuli-Venezia Giulia Liguria Lombardia Piemonte Toscana Trentino-Alto Adige Valle dAosta Veneto Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino-Alto Adige and Valle dAosta are regions with a special statute. ...
The Northern League (Italian: Lega Nord) is an Italian political party founded in 1991 as a federation of several regional parties in Northern Italy, most of which had arisen, and all of which had expanded their share of the electorate, in the 1980s. ...
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Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...
Territory
 Map of Italy; the highlighted area indicates a definition of Padania based on the historical regional languages (see text). The Northern League's definition frequently includes also Tuscany, Marche and Umbria; this corresponds to Robert Putnam's "civic North" (see text). In the narrowest sense, Padania refers to the valley of the Po river, Padus in Latin. The term has been rarely used, as the terms pianura Padana or Val Padana have been preferred in geography textbooks and atlases. Image File history File links modified from Image:Italy_Regions_numbered_300px. ...
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Tuscany (Italian: ) is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. ...
// The Marche (plural, originally le marche de Ancona = the Marches of Ancona) are a region of Central Italy, bordering Emilia-Romagna north, Tuscany to the north-west, Umbria to west, Abruzzo and Latium to the south and the Adriatic Sea to the east. ...
Umbria is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany to the west, the Marche to the east and Lazio to the south. ...
Robert D. Putnam (2006) Robert David Putnam (born 1941 in Rochester, New York) is a political scientist and professor at Harvard University. ...
The Po (Latin: Padus, Italian: Po) is a river that flows 652 kilometers (405 miles) eastward across northern Italy, from Monviso (in the Cottian Alps) to the Adriatic Sea near Venice. ...
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Since the 1960s, the journalist Gianni Brera used the term Padania for Cisalpine Gaul. The Northern League later used the term with a similar meaning since about the 1990s. In this meaning, Padania's boundaries are approximately defined according to historical regional languages which divide northern Italy from central-southern Italy along the La Spezia - Rimini line. Gianni Brera (born September 8, 1919 at San Zenone al Po, near Pavia; deceased December 19, 1992 at Codogno, near Lodi) was an Italian sports journalist and novel writer. ...
Map with location of Cisalpine Gaul This article is about the Roman province. ...
In the linguistics of the Romance languages, the La Spezia-Rimini Line is a line that refers to a number of important isoglosses that distinguish the eastern Romance languages from the western Romance languages. ...
Another definition of Padania's boundaries is based on Harvard University political scientist Robert Putnam's Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, in which Italy's "civic North" is defined according to the inhabitants' civic traditions and attitudes, related to the historical emergence of the free Medieval communes after the first millennium CE. This definition, frequently used by the Northern League, includes all Italian regions north of and including Tuscany, Marche, and Umbria. Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ...
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Defensive towers at San Gimignano, Tuscany, bear witness to the factional strife within communes. ...
Tuscany (Italian: ) is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. ...
// The Marche (plural, originally le marche de Ancona = the Marches of Ancona) are a region of Central Italy, bordering Emilia-Romagna north, Tuscany to the north-west, Umbria to west, Abruzzo and Latium to the south and the Adriatic Sea to the east. ...
Umbria is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany to the west, the Marche to the east and Lazio to the south. ...
Languages - See also: Padanian language and List of Languages of Italy
The dominant language in the area is standard Italian. French, Franco-Provençal, Occitan, German, Friulian, Ladin and Slovenian are spoken close to the borders of Italy and officially recognized by the State as minority languages. This article is about the Northern Italian language occasionally called Cisalpine. ...
Map of languages and dialects of Italy Italy currently has one national language: Standard Italian. ...
Franco-Provençal is a Romance language consisting of dialects that can be found in Italy (Valle dAosta, Piemonte, Calabria, Apulia), in Switzerland (cantons Fribourg, Valais, Vaud, Neuchâtel, Geneva, non-German speaking parts of Bern, but not Jura, where the dialects spoken are French) and in France (Dauphinois...
Occitan, or langue doc is a Romance language characterized by its richness, variability, and by the intelligibility of its dialects. ...
Friulian (friulano in Italian, Furlan in Friulian) is a Romance language belonging to the Rhaetian languages family, spoken in the north-east of Italy (Friuli-Venezia Giulia province) by about 600,000 people. ...
Ladin (Ladino in Italian, Ladin in Ladin, Ladinisch in German) is a Rhaetian language spoken in the Dolomite mountains in Italy, between the regions of Trentino-South Tyrol and Veneto. ...
The various vernaculars or local languages are not in common use except in closed contexts (families, acquaintances who speak the same vernacular). However, the situation varies depending on the Region and the age group. Veneto is generally considered to be the Region where the local language continues to be used most. Older people are more likely to speak the local language than younger people and also to use a less Italianized version. These so-called dialects are considered to be regional minority languages by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages of the Council of Europe, by the Red Book on Endangered Languages of UNESCO and by Ethnologue. The various local Northern Italian languages (Lombard, Ligurian, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Piedmontese and Venetian) are more or less mutually intelligible with each other. Look up Vernacular in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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The term Lombard refers to a group of related varieties spoken mainly in Northern Italy (most of Lombardy and some areas of neighbouring regions) and Southern Switzerland (Ticino and Graubünden). ...
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A linguist of world-wide repute, Professor Geoffrey Hull of Macarthur University of West Sydney, has shown the original unity of the Padanese group of languages in his thesis entitled: The Linguistic Unity of Northern Italy and Rhaetia (1982). His findings are confirmed by most experts today, which use the term Rheto-cisalpine in place of Padanese.
Hull divides the Padanese group into two sub-groups: highland and lowland. The highland group includes Friulan, Ladin and Rumantsch. The first two have achieved official recognition in Italy, whilst Rumantsch, in the form of Rumantsch Grischun, a compromise variety, is the fourth official language of Switzerland. This sub-group of languages is better known as Rhaeto-Romance languages. Rhaeto-Romance languages are a Romance language sub-family which includes a few languages spoken in Switzerland and North-Eastern Italy. ...
- Highland group
- Lowland group
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Ladin (Ladino in Italian, Ladin in Ladin, Ladinisch in German) is a Rhaetian language spoken in the Dolomite mountains in Italy, between the regions of Trentino-South Tyrol and Veneto. ...
Romansh (also spelled Rumantsch, Romansch or Romanche) is one of the four national languages of Switzerland, along with German, Italian and French. ...
Areas where Emiliano-Romagnolo is spoken Emiliano-Romagnolo (also known as Emilian-Romagnolo) is a Romance language mostly spoken in Emilia-Romagna. ...
Ligurian is a Romance language, consisting of a group of Gallo-Italic dialects currently spoken in Liguria, northern Italy, and parts of the Mediterranean coastal zone of France, and Monaco. ...
The term Lombard refers to a group of related varieties spoken mainly in Northern Italy (most of Lombardy and some areas of neighbouring regions) and Southern Switzerland (Ticino and Graubünden). ...
Piedmontese (also known as Piemontèis, and Piemontese in Italian) is a language spoken by over 2 million people in Piedmont, northwest Italy. ...
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National anthem (as proposed by the Northern League) The Northern League political party chose the Va' Pensiero chorus from Verdi's Nabucco as Padania's national anthem. In the Va' Pensiero chorus, the exiled Hebrew slaves lament for their lost homeland. Some dispute this choice because of the myth of Verdi's role in the Risorgimento. “Verdi†redirects here. ...
Nabucco is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on the biblical story and the play by Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornu. ...
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Popular support for independence Since about 1989, the Northern League political party called either for secession or larger autonomy of Padania, and defined its flag and national anthem. In 1997, the Northern League also created an (un-official) Padanian "parliament" in Mantua, and held (un-official) elections. These acts, however, were not unanimously accepted even within the party, and spurred even some Parliament members, elected for the Northern League, to leave the party. Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Mantua (in Italian Mantova, in the local dialect of Emiliano-Romagnolo language Mantua) is an important city in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province with the same name. ...
While support for a federal versus sharply centrally administered State is high in polls held inside Padania, reaching about 80% in average everywhere north of the Po river, support for independence is more uncertain and less studied. One poll[1] estimated that 52.4% of Padanians north of the Po river consider secession advantageous ("vantaggiosa"), and 23.2% both advantageous and convenient ("auspicabile"). Another poll[2] estimated that about 20% Padanians (18.3% in north-west Italy, 27.4% in north-east Italy) support secession in case Italy is not reformed into a federal State. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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The flag of the Cisalpine Republic was the Transpadane Republic vertical Italian tricolour, with the square shape of the Cispadane Republic The Cisalpine Republic (Italian: Repubblica Cisalpina) was a French client republic in Northern Italy that lasted from 1797 to 1802. ...
Flag of the Repubblica Cispadana The Cispadane Republic (Italian: Repubblica Cispadana) was a short-lived republic located in Northern Italy, founded in 1796 with the protection of the French army, led by Napoleon Bonaparte. ...
Northern Italy encompasses nine of the countrys 20 autonomous regions: Emilia-Romagna Friuli-Venezia Giulia Liguria Lombardia Piemonte Toscana Trentino-Alto Adige Valle dAosta Veneto Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino-Alto Adige and Valle dAosta are regions with a special statute. ...
Central Italy, encompasses six of the countrys 20 autonomous regions: Abruzzo Lazio Marche Molise Toscana Umbria Although the regions of Abruzzo and Molise are geographically located in Central Italy, the European office for statistics (Eurostat) lists these two regions within Southern Italy. ...
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Notes and references - ^ I.Diamanti. "Il Nord senza Italia? (North without Italy?)", Limes (Italian bimonthly magazine), January , 1996.
- ^ "poll on Padania's secession", Indipendente (Italian daily newspaper), August 23, 2000.
External links - Origin of the Name
- Gianni Brera's Padania from Guerin Sportivo, 28/10/1963.
- Flags of the World's Padania page
- Geoffrey Hull, "The Linguistic Unity of Northern Italy and Rhaetia" (1982, p.650).
- Ethnologue report for Italy
- La Padania (Northern League's party newspaper)
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