The Pontine Marshes (/ ˈpɒntaɪn / PON-tyne, US also / ˈpɒntiːn / PON-teen; Italian: Agro Pontino [ˈaːɡro ponˈtiːno], formerly also Paludi Pontine; Latin: Pomptīnus Ager [sg.] by Titus Livius, [1] Pomptīna Palus [sg.] and Pomptīnae Paludes [pl.] by Pliny the Elder [2][3]) is an approximately quadrangular area of former marshland in the Lazio Regi...

The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the most important river of central Italy after the Tiber. [1][2] Map of the Arno River watershed. The river originates on Monte Falterona [3] in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and initially takes a southward curve.

Pontine Marshes, reclaimed area in Latina provincia, Lazio (Latium) regione, south-central Italy, extending between the Alban Hills, the Lepini Mountains, and the Tyrrhenian Sea, and traversed by the Appian Way.

Jun 7, 2023 · In the seventies of past century, Dutch earth scientists from the University of Amsterdam became the first to pay serious attention to the surficial geology and Holocene history of the Pontine Marshes.

Oct 25, 2022 · For many people in Italy today, the draining of the Pontine Marshes is an achievement, however questionable, of the Mussolini regime. This illustrates part of the country's relationship to the...

Jun 7, 2023 · We reviewed results from recent studies, identified still existing knowledge gaps and performed additional research to fill these, to produce a full description of the Holocene history and drainage of these marshes.

Oct 19, 2020 · Hannibal’s marsh crossing most likely took place in the middle Arno River Valley in upper Tuscany in northern central Italy, just east of modern Florence. Late Quaternary sedimentology of the mountain-rimmed Arno River watershed has documented long-term drainage problems with marshlands both coastal and inland, and peat deposits in the Arno ...

Nov 12, 2023 · The point is to introduce Hannibal Barca to a people that mostly never heard of him (but are aware of the Roman Empire), and let them know how big of a deal Hannibal was. Naturally I included the episode when he crossed the Arno Valley swamps and lost an eye.

Arno Atoll (Marshallese: Arņo, [ɑnnˠɔ] [1]) is a coral atoll of 133 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is only 5 square miles (13 km 2).

The building of these great main canals enabled a start to be made on the conversion of the marsh areas into a vast region of fertile crop and pasture lands. When the men first went to work on the reclamation, they did so in punts, poled from island to island.