Adige
≈ 2 min read
Names in other languages
No names in other languages are held for this entry yet.
Article bodies are English and are not machine-translated. A name in another language is not a translation of the article.
The Adige is the second-longest river in Italy, after the Po. It rises near the Reschen Pass in the Vinschgau in the province of South Tyrol, near the Italian border with Austria and Switzerland, and flows through most of northeastern Italy to the Adriatic Sea. The name of the river is of unknown origin. Nineteenth-century theories, such as a derivation from the Proto-Celtic 'the water', and alleged to be cognate with the River Tees in England (anciently Athesis, Teesa), have never been accepted by Celtic onomasts and are now completely obsolete.
The Adige is the second-longest river in Italy, after the Po. It rises near the Reschen Pass in the Vinschgau in the province of South Tyrol, near the Italian border with Austria and Switzerland, and flows through most of northeastern Italy to the Adriatic Sea. The name of the river is of unknown origin. Nineteenth-century theories, such as a derivation from the Proto-Celtic 'the water', and alleged to be cognate with the River Tees in England (anciently Athesis, Teesa), have never been accepted by Celtic onomasts and are now completely obsolete.
Tributaries
The following rivers are tributaries to the Adige River (from source to mouth): File:Sorgente Adige vera.jpg|The true source of the Adige inside a bunker of the Alpine Wall File:Sorgente Adige falsa.JPG|The false source File:Reschensee.jpg|Graun, the bell tower in the Reschensee File:Tussen Laas en Cavelano, die Etsch foto1 2012-08-12 15.57.jpg|The Adige between Laas and Göflan in the Vinschgau File:AdigeinVallagarina.jpg|The Adige flowing through Lagarina Valley File:Adige canyon.jpg|Adige canyon at Chiusa File:Adige Verona 2010.JPG|The Adige flowing through Verona File:Adige flowing through Verona.jpg|The Adige flowing through Verona, as seen from the Castelvecchio Bridge File:Verona_Adige.jpg|The Adige flowing through Verona File:VeronaPonteRomanoDaCastSanPietro.jpg|The Adige flowing through Verona seen from Castel San Pietro File:Verona01.jpg|Adige River and in Verona Foce dell'Adige a Rosolina Mare.jpg|The mouth of the Adige at Rosolina Mare
See also
Leno, one of the main tributaries of the Adige River
Notes
References
External links
Encyclopædia Britannica
Text derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368254945 under CC BY-SA 4.0; modifications have been made.