Adria

Adria is a small Italian town with 20 211 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the north of the Po Delta near the Adige River, located in the Italian province of Rovigo in Veneto. The neighboring municipalities are Cavarzere (VE), Ceregnano, Corbola, Gavello, Loreo, Papozze, Pettorazza Grimani, San Martino di Venezze, Taglio di Po, Villadose and Villanova Marchesana.

History

As an Etruscan town in the Po Valley Adriatic was in pre-Christian times so significant that ancient Historiografen claimed the Adriatic Sea to have been named after the city of Adria.

The archaeological tradition begins with a lake-dwelling in Adria, Etruscan, Greek and Venetian population elements are visible, which might indicate a paläovenetische settlement as the origin. Adria had since the end of the 6th century, probably a predominantly inhabited by Etruscans trading town with a harbor inside a lagoon and a fertile hinterland. The city-state had to say ( in Ravenna), from the middle of this century is a decline Adriatic detectable in the 5th century against the competition of neighboring Spina. The Syracusan tyrant Dionysius I ( 405-367 BC) founded in the Adriatic Sea at the beginning of the 4th century a colony in order to strengthen the control of the Adriatic Sea by the Sicilian Polis. Counter or around the middle of the 4th century became Adriatic under Celtic rule, in the 2nd century BC, a Romanization is fixable. The place had connection to the Roman road system, including to Rimini ( Via Popillia, 131 BC) and Padua ( Via Annia, 128 BC). In ending 2nd or 1st century BC Adriatic Sea has become Roman municipium, like all Venetians also had the inhabitants Adriatic consequently the Roman citizenship. In the 2nd century AD then ended in essentially the history of the port city, the harbor silted up, Ravenna increasingly took over the functions of the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic Sea itself is now about 15 km from the sea.

Attractions

In the city there is an archaeological museum.

Twinning

Adria maintains a twinning with the German town Lampert home in a circle mountain road.

Sons and daughters of the town

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