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Formed or lying at the foot of a mountain range.
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An administrative region in the north of Italy.
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A geographic region and plateau of the eastern United States, between the Appalachian mountains and the coastal plain, extending from eastern Alabama to northern New Jersey.
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A small city in Calhoun County and Cherokee County, Alabama, United States.
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A city in Alameda County, California, United States.
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A small city in Wayne County, Missouri, United States.
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A city in Canadian County and Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States.
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A census-designated place in Anderson County and Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.
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A small city in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.
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A small town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States.
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A small municipality of Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
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A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
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Any region that could serve as a basis for national unification, as Piedmont did for the Italian Risorgimento.
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Topics: historiography, history, human-sciences, sciences
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noun
Any region of foothills of a mountain range.
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the region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley
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Synonyms: Piemonte
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Broader terms: Italian region
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the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama
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a gentle slope leading from the base of a mountain to a region of flat land
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Broader terms: slope, incline, side
History
From Piedmont, ultimately from Italian piemonte (“foot of a mountain”); cognate with French piémont.
Derived from Italian Piemonte (“mountain foot”), from Medieval Latin Pedemontium, Pedemontis, from Latin ad pedem montium.
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