The Germanasca (also in Piedmontese Germanasca ) is a 27 km (17 mi) Italian torrent , which runs through the Metropolitan City of Turin . It is a tributary of the Chisone , into which it flows near Perosa Argentina . The valley formed by the river is known as Val Germanasca .
8-742: The stream is formed from Lago Verde , a small Alpine lake in the Cottian Alps , and initially runs northwards, before reaching the comune of Salza di Pinerolo and turning east. It then receives the waters of the Germanasca di Salza and Germanasca di Massello increasing a lot its average discharge. After the end of its course through the Germanasca Valley it reaches the Chisone at Perosa Argentina . [REDACTED] Media related to Germanasca at Wikimedia Commons This Piedmont location article
16-720: A limited autonomy and elected its own parliament . This semi-autonomous status lasted also after the annexation of the Dauphiné to France (1349), and was only abolished in 1713 due to the Treaty of Utrecht , which assigned to the House of Savoy all the mountainous area on the eastern side of the Cottian Alps. After the treaty annexing Nice and Savoy to France, signed in Turin in March 1860 ( Treaty of Turin ),
24-455: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in Italy is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cottian Alps The Cottian Alps ( / ˈ k ɒ t i ə n ˈ æ l p s / ; French : Alpes Cottiennes [alp kɔtjɛn] ; Italian : Alpi Cozie [ˈalpi ˈkɔttsje] ) are a mountain range in the southwestern part of
32-576: The Alps . They form the border between France ( Hautes-Alpes and Savoie ) and Italy ( Piedmont ). The Fréjus Road Tunnel and Fréjus Rail Tunnel between Modane and Susa are important transportation arteries between France ( Lyon , Grenoble ) and Italy ( Turin ). The name Cottian comes from Marcus Julius Cottius , a king of the tribes inhabiting that mountainous region in the 1st century BC. Under his father Donnus , these tribes had previously opposed but later made peace with Julius Caesar . Cottius
40-728: The Metropolitan City of Turin (the eastern slopes), and the French departments of Savoie , Hautes-Alpes , and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (the western slopes). The Cottian Alps are drained by the rivers Durance and Arc and their tributaries on the French side; and by the Dora Riparia and other tributaries of the Po on the Italian side. The borders of the Cottian Alps are (clockwise): The chief peaks of
48-529: The easternmost slopes, and the Dauphiné , which at the time was independent from France . The Dauphins also held, in addition to the southwestern slopes of the range ( Briançon and Queyras , now on the French side), the upper part of some of the valleys that were tributaries of the Po River ( Valle di Susa , Chisone valley, Varaita Valley ). The Alpine territory of Dauphiné, known as Escartons , used to have
56-513: The north-western slopes of the range became part of the French republic. Two eastern valleys of the Cottian Alps ( Pellice and Germanasca ) have been for centuries a kind of sanctuary for the Waldensians , a Christian movement that was persecuted as heretical from the 12th century onwards by the catholic church. Administratively the range is divided between the Italian province of Cuneo and
64-510: Was succeeded by his son Gaius Julius Donnus II (reigned 3 BC-4 AD), and his grandson Marcus Julius Cottius II (reigned 5-63 AD), who was granted the title of king by the emperor Claudius . On his death, Nero annexed his kingdom as the province of Alpes Cottiae . For a long part of the Middle Ages the Cottian Alps were divided between the Duchy of Savoy , which controlled their northern part and
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