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Treviso - LoveToKnow 1911 (476 words) |
 | Treviso is the seat of various manufactures - ironworks and pottery, macaroni, cotton-spinning and rice-husking, paper, printing, brushes, brickyards, flourmills - and is the centre of a fertile district. |
| It lay off the main roads, and is hardly mentioned by ancient writers, though Pliny speaks of the Silis as flowing "ex montibus Tarvisanis." In the 6th century it appears as an important place and was the seat of a Lombard duke. |
| Treviso was taken in 1797 by the French under Mortier (duke of Treviso). |
| Terraveneta - Organo d'informazione della Federazione Veneta dell'Ontario (1460 words) |
| the Province of Padua to the southwest; and |
| Treviso is situated in the middle of the flourishing Veneto Plains, at the confluence of the Botteniga and Sile Rivers. |
| It is in the Province of Treviso that many of the battles were fought and the outcome of the war was decided. |
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