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29-550: Neighbouring municipalities of Cavarzere are: Adria , Agna , Anguillara Veneta , Chioggia , Cona , Loreo , Pettorazza Grimani , San Martino di Venezze . Cavarzere is located on a plain crossed by the Adige and numerous canals. Cavarzere dates from the pre-Roman age as a military outpost of the nearby town of Hatri a, the future Adria . The etymology of Cavarzere is from the Latin Caput Aggeris because once

58-755: A Roman author and fleet commander, wrote about a system of channels in Atria that was, "first made by the Tuscans [i.e. Etruscans], thus discharging the flow of the river across the marshes of the Atriani called the Seven Seas, with the famous harbor of the Tuscan town of Atria which formerly gave the name of Atriatic to the sea now called the Adriatic". Those "Seven Seas" were interlinked coastal lagoons, separated from

87-480: A closer collaborative relationship, developing in an effective etruscan Dodecapolis . From the late 9th century BC, the human settlement in the Lower Po valley, previously organized in small groups of huts scattered throughout the country and mostly inhabited by Umbrians or other Italics, centers in some major urban areas as Bologna , the main city of Padanian Etruria, and Verucchio, then flourishing settlement in

116-451: A daughter of Tiresias. The new territory was populated by veteran soldiers of Augustus . Mantua's most famous ancient citizen is the poet Publius Vergilius Maro, Virgil (Mantua me genuit), who was born near the city in 70 B.C. at the village now known as Virgilio. The first settlements built on the area are of Venetic origin, during the 12-9th century BC. At that time the main stream of the Po,

145-605: A fief of the archdiocese of Ravenna . After a period as an independent commune, it was a possession of the Este of Ferrara and, in the 16th century, of the Republic of Venice . At that time Adria was a small village surrounded by malaria -plagued marshes. It recovered its importance when Polesine was reclaimed in the same century. During the Napoleonic Wars it was first under France, then under Austria , to which it

174-544: A medical outpost named "cittadella socio-sanitaria". Cavarzere is twinned with: Category:Lists of municipalities of Italy Adria Adria is a town and comune in the province of Rovigo in the Veneto region of northern Italy, situated between the mouths of the rivers Adige and Po . The remains of the Etruscan city of Atria or Hatria are to be found below the modern city, three to four metres below

203-433: Is agriculture. In the first part of 20th century, Cavarzere grew to become a city with a phase of industrialization. The process was interrupted by the flood of the river Po in 1951. Since that year, the region recorded a continuous decrease in population which reimmigration of these years could not counteract. The modern industrial area is based on manufacturing. Most people, however, commute to neighbouring cities. Cavarzere

232-468: Is served by a bus service providing regular transport to all parts of the area and neighbouring towns, based on a large station. There is also a railway line which connects Adria to Venice having two stops in Cavarzere. It has a medium school system based on primary and secondary schools and also on professional training institutes. Cavarzere is home to a small hospital belonging to ULSS 14 of Chioggia ,

261-477: The Adria channel, flowed into the sea by this area. The Villanovan culture, named for an archaeological site at the village of Villanova, near Bologna (Etruscan Felsina), flourished in this area from the 10th until as late as the 6th century BC. The foundations of classical Atria are dated from 530 to 520 BC.[3] The Etruscans built the port and settlement of Adria after the channel was not the main stream anymore. During

290-611: The Eneti from the sixth century BC.[6] Mass Celtic incursions into the Po valley resulted in friction between the Gauls and Etruscans and intermarriage, attested by epigraphic inscriptions on which Etruscan and Celtic names appear together. The city was populated[7] by Etruscans, Eneti, Greeks and Celts. Spina was an Etruscan port city on the Adriatic at the ancient mouth of the Po , south of

319-859: The French and also from the Duchy of Ferrara. Cavarzere followed the fate of the Venetian Republic until the latter was annexed by the Austrian Empire with the Treaty of Campo Formio in 1797. After a brief rule of the Kingdom of Italy (a protectorate of French Empire), with the Congress of Vienna in 1815 Cavarzere was annexed to the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia . Since 1866 it became part of unified Italy . The main economic sector of Cavarzere

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348-614: The Veneti from the sixth century BC at least, especially the amber , originally coming from the Baltic sea. Mass Celtic incursions into the Po valley resulted in friction between the Gauls and Etruscans and intermarriage, attested by epigraphic inscriptions on which Etruscan and Celtic names appear together. The city was populated by Etruscans, Veneti, Greeks and Celts. Pliny the Elder ,

377-835: The ancient inhabitants of the conquered regions imposing their culture and their political institutions. Consequently, as in Tuscany, the cities they founded in the Po valley and along the Adriatic coast formed a Dodecapolis (a federation or league of twelve cities), but, as for the original Etruscan Dodecapolis, we do not really know which cities were part of it. Inside Padanian Etruria, it is supposed they were Felsina ( Bologna ), Spina and Marzabotto , while we can only guess about Ravenna , Cesena , Rimini , Modena , Parma , Piacenza , Mantua and possibly, but improbably, Milan . The founder of these cities and of their League had been Ocnus , brother or son of Aulestes , according some authors, Tarchon according to others. More probably, as

406-495: The archaeological evidence suggests, both the traditions have to be accepted but must also be ascribed to two different moments of profound change in the political and economic framework of the Padanian Etruria. A "First etruscan colonization," referred to the legendary Tarchon , can be traced to the early Iron Age (9th century BC). It was aimed to find new lands for agricultural uses; a "Second colonization", dated to

435-631: The banks of the Mincio , on a sort of island which provided natural protection. In the 6th century BC it was an Etruscan village which, in Etruscan tradition, was re-founded by Ocnus. The name derives from the Etruscan god Mantus , of Hades. After being conquered by the Cenomani , a Gallic tribe, the city was conquered between the first and second Punic wars by the Romans, who attributed its name to Manto ,

464-610: The channel gradually started to run dry. During the later period of the sixth century BC the port continued to flourish. The Etruscan-controlled area of the Po Valley was generally known as Padanian Etruria , as opposed to their main concentration along the Tyrrhenian coast south of the Arno . Greeks from Aegina and later from Syracuse by Dionysius I colonised the city making it into an emporion . Greeks had been trading with

493-527: The continued siltation of the Po delta carried the seafront further to the east. The sea is now about 22 kilometres (14 miles) from Adria. The first exploration of ancient Atria was carried out by Carlo Bocchi and published as Importanza di Adria la Veneta . The collections of the Bocchi family were given to the public at the beginning of the 20th century and comprise a major part of the city museum collection of antiquities. There are several ideas concerning

522-463: The current level. Adria and Spina were the Etruscan ports and depots for Felsina (now Bologna). Adria may have given its name during an early period to the Adriatic Sea , to which it was connected by channels. The first settlements built in the area are of Venetic origin, during the twelfth to ninth centuries BC, consisting of stilt houses in the wetlands, that were then still close to

551-599: The etymology of the ancient toponym Adria/Atria . One theory is that it derives from the Illyrian ( Venetic language ) word adur "water, sea". At the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire , the port of Adria had lost most of its importance. It finally declined after the total change of the local hydrography in 589, following the catastrophic flood documented by Paul the Deacon , and Adria became

580-444: The heart of Romagna, by initiative of the etruscan colonists. The area around Bologna has been inhabited since the 9th century BC, as evidenced by the archeological digs in the 19th century in nearby Villanova. This period, and up to the 6th century, is in fact generally referred to as villanovian, and had various nuclei of people spread out around this area. In the 7-6th centuries BC, Etruria began to have an influence on this area, and

609-592: The later period of the 6th century BC the port continued to flourish. The Etruscan-controlled area of the Po Valley was generally known as Padanian Etruria (Padanian referring to the Po River ), as opposed to their main concentration along the Tyrrhenian coast south of the Arno. Greeks[4] from Aegina [5] and later from Syracuse by Dionysius I colonised the city making it into an emporion. Greeks had been trading with

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638-416: The mid-6th century BC, can be attributed to the as much legendary Ocnus . The latter colonization involved the reorganization of the entire Padanian region in order to increase its utility for the etruscan businesses and trades. During the 6th century BC Etruria experienced significant social, political and economic transformations. The formative process of the city-states had concluded, within these polities

667-606: The northern city-states of the Etruscan Dodecapolis they swept into the Po valley through the Apennine passes. The Greek and Latin ancient writers tell us that an Etruscan expansion into Southern Italy , present day Campania region, and northwards into the Po Valley occurred yet in the 9th century BC. Following their usual methods, the Etruscan conquerors in the colonial areas overlapped themselves over

696-413: The open sea by sand spits and barrier islands . The Etruscans extended this natural inland waterway with new canals to extend the navigation possibilities of the tidal reaches of the Po all the way north to Atria. As late as the time of the emperor Vespasian, shallow draft galleys could still be rowed from Ravenna into the heart of Etruria. Under Roman occupation the town ceded importance to Ravenna as

725-566: The population went from Umbrian to Etruscan. The town was renamed Felsina. Traces of a 12th-9th century BC settlement, supposed of Villanovan origin, have been found in Verucchio . Later it was an Etruscan possession. The current town derives its name from Vero Occhio ("True Eye"), referring to its privileged position offering a wide panorama of the surrounding countryside and the Romagna coast. A settlement existed as early as around 2000 BC on

754-443: The power of the great aristocratic families was matched and then replaced by that of a new social class of men whose wealth was based mainly on trade. The protagonists of this process were people of the northern cities of Tuscany . The Padanian Etruria is transformed in best way to serve the new commercial purposes: the trade routes are reinforced and developed, the previous settlements became real cities, better linked amongst them by

783-482: The sea. At that time the main stream of the Po, the Adria channel, flowed into the sea in this area. The Villanovan culture, named for an archaeological site at the village of Villanova, near Bologna (Etruscan Felsina ), flourished in this area from the tenth until as late as the sixth century BC. The foundations of classical Atria are dated from 530 to 520 BC. The Etruscans built the port and settlement of Adria after

812-469: Was assigned in 1815 after the Congress of Vienna , as part of Lombardy-Venetia . Adria is twinned with: Padanian Etruria In the 8th century BC, the Etruscans expanded their power to Northern and Southern Italy, specifically towards Emilia and Campania, where they founded Etruscan dominions that are modernly known under the names of Padanian Etruria and Campanian Etruria . Moving from

841-694: Was the only village in the area having an embankment system. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire , it became a refuge for people escaping from barbarian invasion. For this viable location (along the River Adige and not far from the Venetian Lagoon) as the last town before the Papal States, Cavarzere was destroyed by many artificial floods and invasions by the Lombards , the Genoese ,

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