Adige
Sign in to saveThe 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.
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The Adige is Italy's second-longest river, flowing from the Alps near the Austrian and Swiss borders through northeastern Italy to the Adriatic Sea. It matters as a major waterway that shapes the geography and drainage of a significant portion of Italy's landscape.
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- Adige
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- Latin Athesis, from Celtic *yt-ese, "the water"
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- 20110720 Verona 3078.jpg
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- The Adige in Verona
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- Map of the Adige River
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- Country
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- Italy
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- Reschen Pass
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- Graun im Vinschgau, South Tyrol, Italy
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- Adriatic Sea
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- Italy
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- Description
- Tributaries
- Ecology
- Fauna
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
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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.