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Piedmont
(
PEED
-mont
;
Italian
:
Piemonte
,
pronounced
[pje?monte]
;
Piedmontese
,
Occitan
and
Arpitan
:
Piemont
,
Piedmontese pronunciation:
[pje?m?ŋt]
) is a
region
in the northern part of
Italy
. The name means "foot of mountain" (
Alps
). The capital is
Turin
. Piedmont has 8
provinces
within it.
In the north of Piedmont there is the country of
Switzerland
and the Italian region of
Valle d'Aosta
, in the east there are the regions of
Lombardy
and
Emilia-Romagna
, in the west there is
France
and in the south
Liguria
.
Piedmont was part of the
Duchy of Savoy
until the
Italian unification
of 1860 when the Duke of Savoy became King of Italy.
Piedmont is divided into 8 provinces:
- Alessandria
- Asti
- Biella
- Cuneo
- Novara
- Turin
(Torino)
- Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
- Vercelli
