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21-676: The name memorializes that of the Euganei , an ancient people who inhabited the region upon contact with the Romans . The Euganean Hills were formed in a sub-marine outwelling of basaltic lava during the Eocene , which was followed in the Oligocene by an episode of activity characterized by viscous magma , which formed deposits of trachyte . The Euganean Hills, just visible from Venice , have been celebrated for their picturesque beauty and their hot springs. In

42-820: A group of populations, difficult to define, settled in the flat and mountainous areas of Northeast Italy , between the Eastern Alps and the Adriatic . With the arrival of the Adriatic Veneti they retreated to the Alpine valleys, blending in with the Rhaetians . Pliny the Elder , referring to Cato , states that the Euganeans were divided into three lineages, the Triumpilini ( Val Trompia ),

63-581: A high tourist activity. In 2022, the population resident in north-eastern Italy amounts to 11,532,690 inhabitants. Below is the list of the population residing in 2022 in municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants. Italian is the main language. Other languages include Venetian , widely spoken in Veneto and along the coast to Trieste and Istria , as well as in the towns of Pordenone and Gorizia in Friuli , and in most of Trentino , but only recognised by

84-604: Is now Croatia to the Abdua in the current Italian region of Lombardy and from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea . Venetia , a region which indicated the old land provinces of the Republic of Venice from river Adda to river Isonzo , and is sometimes still used today to indicate this territory together with Trentino and Trieste. It borders to the north with Austria and Switzerland , to

105-596: Is one of the five official statistical regions of Italy used by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), a first level NUTS region and a European Parliament constituency . Northeast encompasses four of the country's 20 regions : Triveneto (literally "Triple Veneto") is a historical region of Italy . The area is made up of the three smaller historical regions of Venezia Euganea (" Euganean Venetia"), Venezia Giulia (" Julian March ") and Venezia Tridentina (" Tridentine Venetia"). This territory

126-673: The Camunni ( Val Camonica ) and the Stoni. All these populations were Romanized before the beginning of the Common Era . It has been hypothesized that "Euganei" derives from the Greek εὐγενεῖς ("of noble lineage"), but a connection with Ingauni, a Ligurian population, is also possible. More likely, it is the term with which the Adriatic Venetians referred to a non-homogeneous group of tribes who, at

147-747: The Chardonnay , the Fior d’Arancio , the very sweet yellow Moscato , the Merlot , the Novello , the dry Pinello  [ it ] , Pinot blanc , Red Wine, the sparkling Serprino  [ it ] and the Tocai Italico  [ it ] ("Italic Tokay"). 45°19′N 11°40′E  /  45.317°N 11.667°E  / 45.317; 11.667 Euganei The Euganei (fr. Lat. Euganei , Euganeorum ; cf. Gr. εὐγενής (eugenēs) 'well-born') were

168-520: The Veneto region; Friulian , spoken in most of Friuli and nationally recognized, and Ladin , spoken by a few thousand people in the Dolomites . Other languages are German , the primary language of South Tyrol , where Italian is spoken by about two thirds of the inhabitants, and Slovene , recognized by Italy and spoken on the border of Italy and Istria, where the main language today is Croatian but Italian

189-519: The Euganean Hills, at Arquà , Petrarch found peace and harmony towards the end of his life, and the town now bears his name attached to it. He discovered the village in 1369; there, he stated in his letter to posterity, "I have built me a house, small, but pleasant and decent, in the midst of slopes clothed with vines and olives,"—a house that may be seen there today. The Euganean hills, like an archipelago of steep-sided wooded islands rising from

210-541: The Euganeans themselves after this migration. Further pressured by the arrival of the Gauls in the 5th century BC , the Euganean tribes maintained their independence until the end of the 2nd century BC , when Quintus Marcius Rex and Marcus Aemilius Scaurus subjugated the Stoni to Rome; Camuni and Triumpilini were definitively subjugated by Augustus in 16 BC. The Euganeans willingly accepted Roman domination, as demonstrated by

231-647: The east with Slovenia , to the south with Liguria , Tuscany , Marche and the small state of San Marino , to the west with Lombardy and for a very short stretch with Piedmont . Emilia-Romagna , Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Veneto are washed by the Adriatic Sea Northeastern Italy includes most of the Po Valley , crossed by the Po river , the longest river in Italy, and includes highly industrialized regions with

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252-573: The imperial era continued to use the term "Euganean" not as an ethnic one, but as a learned geographical name to indicate Northeast Italy, or as a synonym of Patavinus . The expression " Euganean Hills ", which indicates the group of reliefs located south-west of Padua, is instead an invention of the Renaissance , while "Venezia Euganea", coined by the linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli , is even later. Northeast Italy Northeast Italy ( Italian : Italia nord-orientale or just Nord-est )

273-649: The main ethnic group of the Italian area (other main ethnic groups include Friulani in the east, mostly in Udine province ; Ladins in the Dolomites are between Veneto and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol; Germans in South Tyrol ; and Slovene minorities on the border with Slovenia and in the city of Trieste); while after 1947 Venetian/ Istrian Italians are just a minority in Slovenian and Croatian Istria. Roman Venetia et Histria

294-454: The monuments erected in honor of the Augustan dynasty and the existence of a pagus called Livius by Livia . According to Pliny, referring to Cato, the Euganeans were distributed in 34 oppida among which the "capital" Stoenos , an alpine locality which is difficult to identify, stood out. Pliny himself recalls how Verona was a city of Rhaetian and Euganean origin. The literature of

315-486: The most part of Tre Venezie, but lost Slovenian and Croatian majority areas of the upper Isonzo valley (together with the eastern part of Gorizia, today called Nova Gorica ), the city of Fiume , most part of Carso region and most part of Istria to Yugoslavia . The areas of Trieste ( Zone A ) and north-west Istria ( Zone B ) were formed in the Free Territory of Trieste : in 1954, Italy reannexed Zone A, while Zone B

336-457: The perfectly flat agricultural plain, inspired the setting of Percy Bysshe Shelley 's Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills . Shelley likens the hill he has found himself upon, at first to an island in "the deep wide sea of Misery", then he sees that: This brings his thoughts to Venice "thou hast been/Ocean's child, and then his queen;/Now is come a darker day," and finally to a wish for an idyllic retreat. The Parco Regionale dei Colli Euganei

357-569: The time of their arrival in Northeast Italy , occupied the vast area from Istria to Garda (or Oglio ). According to what is reported by the well-known legend on the origins of the Adriatic Venetians (handed down from a tragedy by Sophocles and taken up by Livy ), it was the latter who drove out the Euganeans who, having retreated to the Alpine valleys, mixed with the Rhaetians ; it cannot be ruled out, however, that "Reti" referred to

378-427: Was ceded to Yugoslavia. Nowadays the name Triveneto includes the three administrative regions of Veneto , Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Venetia et Histria , an old region of Italy at the time of Roman Empire , refers to Veneto, Trentino , Friuli-Venezia Giulia, East Lombardy and Istria; it was named after the people of Veneti , who inhabited that region, and who are still largely

399-585: Was established in 1989 by the Veneto Region. It covers an area of about 18,000 hectares. The park offers a wide choice of recreational, natural world, historical and tourist activities. Thirteen wineries have grouped together under the recently established Colli Euganei denomination. Wines consist of the White, with its typical straw-yellow colour and jasmine scent, the Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon reds,

420-521: Was named after the Roman region of Venetia et Histria . The entire area was under Austrian rule in 1863; Italy annexed Venezia Euganea in 1866, following the Third Italian War of Independence and a controversial plebiscite (see Venetian nationalism ); Julian Venetia and Venezia Tridentina passed under the Italian rule in 1919, following the end of World War I . After World War II , Italy retained

441-559: Was originally created by Augustus as the tenth regio in 7 AD alongside the nine other regiones . The region had been one of the last regions of Italy to be incorporated into the Roman Empire. It was later renamed by Diocletian the VIII provincia Venetia et Histria in the third century. Its capital was at Aquileia , and it stretched geographically from the Arsia River in the east in what

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