English

Proper noun

Emilia-Romagna

1. A region of northern Italy.

Translations

Italian

Etymology

From the former regions Emilia and Romagna, from Latin (via) Aemilia, the Roman road connecting Rome to northern Italy, named after the consul Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Romania, the name of the Eastern Roman Empire applied to Ravenna by the Lombards after the fall of the Western Empire and in the days when Ravenna was a city of the east.

Pronunciation

• Emìlia-Romagna, IPA^(key): /eˈmilja roˈmaɲɲa/

Proper noun

Emilia-Romagna f

1. Emilia-Romagna