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90-530: The Veneti were initially attested in the area between Lake Garda and the Euganean Hills ; later they expanded until they reached borders similar to those of the current Veneto region. According to the archaeological finds (which also agree with the written sources), the western borders of their territory ran along Lake Garda, the southern ones followed a line that starts from the Tartaro river , follows

180-716: A follower of Pan-Illyrian theory , discussed the Venetic language known from hundreds of inscriptions as an Illyrian language which, with the lower Italian Messapian and the Balkan Illyrian languages, forms the separate Illyrian branch of the Indo-European language family. Krahe thought that not only the name of the Illyrian and Adriatic Enetoi peoples are the same. Homer mentions a people in Asia Minor,

270-463: A long stay has been accompanied by "hit and run" tourism, with a short stop, just for the weekend or even for a few hours. The first is fed by tourists who want to spend their holidays on the lake, coming from different areas (in addition to Italians, numerous Germans, French, Swiss and Dutch), while the second is fed by those who live a short distance from the lake and who want to spend a few hours there. Both types of tourism have caused notable changes in

360-724: A piè de l'Alpe che serra Lamagna sovra Tiralli, c'ha nome Benaco. Above in beauteous Italy lies a lake, At the Alp's foot that shuts in Germany Over Tyrol, and has the name Benaco. After the collapse of the Roman Empire , the Garda region witnessed the passage of numerous Germanic populations, but the first one that settled there, after a long migration, was that of the Lombards . Their testimonies are mostly present along

450-734: A single wind may have different names. Lake Garda is rich in biodiversity . Salmo carpio , also known as the carpione ( carpione del Garda or Lake Garda carpione ) is a rare salmonid fish endemic to Lake Garda. It has been introduced to a number of other lakes in Italy and elsewhere but unsuccessfully in all cases. The population in Lake Garda has been strongly declining, and is considered critically endangered ( IUCN 3.1 ). The main threats are due to overfishing, pollution and possibly competition from introduced species such as Coregonus and other Salmonidae . Adult lake trout outside

540-570: A system which he called Alteuropäisch (Old European). The network of old European water names comprises waters from Scandinavia to lower Italy, and from the British Isles to the Baltic. It denotes the period of development of the common Indo-European language which was finished by the second millennium BC. Hans Krahe claimed that by that time the Western languages (Germanic, Celtic, Illyrian,

630-535: Is also sailed there every year. Ship transport is provided by Navigazione Laghi . A daily ferry service connects major towns on the eastern and western shores of Lake Garda. The service runs from Desenzano del Garda to Riva del Garda , via Peschiera del Garda , Salò and Malcesine . The region can be reached directly via the Milan-Venice railway , with Desenzano-Sirmione and Peschiera railway station . Buses are faster alternatives to ferry services. On

720-540: Is created by the presence of a fault submerged between Sirmione and Punta San Vigilio which is almost a natural barrier that hampers the homogenization between the water of the two zones. If the water level of the Adige River is excessive, water is diverted to the lake through the Mori-Torbole tunnel . The Lake Garda area is considered one of the most seismic in Italy. The oldest known earthquake that struck

810-466: Is evidenced in approximately 300 short inscriptions dating from the 6th to 1st centuries BC. Venetic appears to share several similarities with Latin and the other Italic languages , but also has some affinities with other Indo-European languages, especially Germanic and Celtic . Venetic should not be confused with Venetian , a Romance language presently spoken in the Veneto region. The extent of

900-507: Is limited to personal names, nouns, and verbs used in dedicatory formulae. There are even fewer remains of an Illyrian language which have been connected to the region and may indicate an Illyrian. However, this identification of the Adriatic Veneti as Illyrians has been discredited by many linguists. Hans Krahe and later Anton Mayer showed that Herodotus was not referring to the Adriatic Veneti, but to an Illyrian tribe that lived in

990-621: Is located at the centre of a crucial node between Brescia , Verona and Trento , and is therefore easily reachable via the transversal infrastructures of the Po Valley and those of the Brenner - Rome axis: Hans Krahe Hans Krahe (7 February 1898 – 25 June 1965) was a German philologist and linguist , specializing over many decades in the Illyrian languages . He was born in Gelsenkirchen . Between 1936 and 1946 he

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1080-519: Is mostly depended on tourism. Back to Roman times, especially from the early imperial age, magnificent villas were present on the shores of the lake, conceived as places dedicated to otium , an activity actually reserved for the ruling classes. In particular Sirmione was a privileged place for the presence of sulphurous springs that allowed thermal use. Starting from the Renaissance the lake returned to be populated with noble villas. Tourism in

1170-796: Is said to imply a link between the Veneti and the Vindelici who are related to Liburnians from the Istrian Coast. However, the reference to the Veneti in Virgil seems to place them in the "innermost realm of the Liburnians" which must have been the goal at which Antenor is said to have arrived. This however implies only that the ancient Liburnians may have once encompassed a wide swath of the Eastern Alps, from Vindelicia, through Noricum, to

1260-656: Is the largest lake in Italy. It is a popular holiday location in northern Italy, between Brescia and Milan to the west, and Verona and Venice to the east. The lake cuts into the edge of the Italian Alps , particularly the Alpine sub-ranges of the Garda Mountains and the Brenta Group . Glaciers formed this alpine region at the end of the last ice age . The lake and its shoreline are divided between

1350-521: The Amber Road . There were horsemen and fishermen, and members involved in animal husbandry. In the 7th century BC merchants at Este used bronze coins, while by the 3rd century BC silver money was in use, especially at Padua. Farmers cultivated grain and grapes. Artisans produced ceramic and bronze objects, and wove wool cloth. Artifacts show that among the sports enjoyed were boxing and boat races. Many archaeological excavations are still under way in

1440-730: The Arsia River in the east in what is now Croatia to the Abdua in the current Italian region of Lombardy and from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea . Herodotus (c. 484–425 BC) at one point mentions the Veneti of the Adriatic ( Histories V.9) and at another refers in passing to the "Eneti in Illyria" ( Histories I.196) whose supposed marriage customs, he claims, mirrored those of

1530-840: The Cenomani Celts who had settled in and eventually absorbed the areas of Brescia and Verona . The Veneti seem to have begun contact with Rome in the third century BC. They established amicitia with Rome against the Gauls c.  238  BC. During the Second Punic War , the Veneti were again allied with the Romans against the Celts, Iberians, and the Carthaginian expedition (218–203 BC) led by Hannibal . Livy records that they sent soldiers to fight along with

1620-607: The Cisalpine Republic (later transformed into Italian Republic and then again in Kingdom of Italy , always under French control. In 1815 following the definitive defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte , during the Congress of Vienna it was decided to create the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia : in this way, the whole Garda region returned to Austrian hands. The First Italian War of Independence saw an initial slow advance of

1710-625: The Neolithic the populations that inhabited the lake came into contact with the square-mouthed vases culture , as evidenced by the objects accompanying some tombs from this period found near Arco . The greatest evidence of human presence in prehistoric times dates back to the Bronze Age , when numerous aggregates of stilt houses arose in the lower lake before being abandoned during the Iron Age in favour of more strategic points. Lake Garda

1800-839: The Po and reaches Adria , along the extinct branch of the Po of Adria , while the eastern ones reached up to the Tagliamento river . According to Julius Pokorný , the ethnonym Venetī (singular *Venetos ) is derived from Proto Indo-European root *wen- 'to strive, to wish for, to love'. As shown by the comparative material, Germanic languages had two terms of different origin: Old High German Winida 'Wende' points to Pre-Germanic *Wenétos , while Lat.-Germ. Venedi (as attested in Tacitus) and Old English Winedas 'Wends' call for Pre-Germanic *Wenetós . The latter, according to Tacitus, who would have been familiar with Adriatic Veneti, connects

1890-451: The Po Valley , so many winds typical of the lake are the result of a difference between lower and higher altitude temperatures. Due to this, winds are generated that descend from the mountains to the plains in the morning and go back to the mountains in the afternoon. The bottleneck formed by the lake basin affects the timing of the winds, many of which happen on a regular daily basis. The winds are all named, most in regional Italian dialect so

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1980-585: The Veneto today at sites such as Este , Padua , Oderzo , Adria , Vicenza , Verona and Altinum . Studies have explored the vast influence of the Greeks in the Adriatic and their interaction with the Veneti, particularly focusing on the Euboeans , Phocaeans and Corinthians . Furthermore, studies have also been done on Etruscan activity in the region and their strong links to the Veneti. Modern surveys on

2070-556: The Vistula Veneti with the Slavs . Etymologically related words include Latin venus, -eris 'love, passion, grace'; Sanskrit vanas- 'lust, zest', vani- 'wish, desire'; Old Irish fine (< Proto-Celtic *venjā ) 'kinship, kinfolk, alliance, tribe, family'; Old Norse vinr , Old Saxon, Old High German wini , Old Frisian, Old English wine 'friend'. The ancient Veneti spoke Venetic , an extinct Indo-European language which

2160-414: The olive tree , parasol pine , mediterranean cypress , chinese windmill palm and Canary Island Date Palm . Some hardy citrus trees, such as hardy lemons and satsuma can also be found, which are extremely rare at this latitude (46° North). In ancient times, poets like Catullus wrote about "Lacus Benacus" with its mild climate vivified by the winds. The lake is oriented from north to south towards

2250-645: The Adige valley with the Garda. Two pagi were also established: pagus Benacenses on Brescia and pagus Claudienses on Verona. In 268 AD the Battle of Lake Benacus was fought between the army of the Roman Empire , commanded by the future emperor Claudius Gothicus , and the German federation of the Alamanni . The overwhelming victory obtained by the Romans allowed the expulsion of Alemanni from northern Italy, due to

2340-500: The Adriatic Veneti descended from Celts who in turn were related to later Celtic tribe of the same name who lived on the coast of Brittany and fought against Julius Caesar . He further suggested that the identification of the Adriatic Veneti with the Paphlagonian Enetoi led by Antenor—which he attributes to Sophocles (496–406 BC)—was a mistake due to the similarity of the names. Strabo also gives information on

2430-532: The Austrians repeatedly bombed Gargnano and tried to impose their dominance. Despite the humiliating Italian defeat, in 1866 Veneto was finally handed over to the Kingdom of Italy , except for the northern part of the lake which still remained under Austrian control. During the First World War towns on Lake Garda were bombed several times. On 23 July 1915, the first aerial bombardment took place in

2520-582: The Austrians. Numerous clashes took place between the adversaries on the battlefield of Lake Garda. In 1797 the French occupied Mantua , while Brescia valleys and towns on the lake rose up against the Napoleonic forces, even if the Republic of Venice maintained its neutral status and did not send aid to rescue. The Veronese, on the other hand, autonomously organized expeditions against the centres occupied by

2610-712: The Babylonians. This led early scholars to seek to link the Veneti with the Illyrians . Their Illyrian origin is further strengthened by their close relationship with the inhabitants of the coastal regions of the Adriatic . Karl Pauli, a late 19th-century expert on the Venetic language, declared that the language was more closely related to that of the Illyrians than to any other language, even though knowledge of Venetic

2700-604: The Dalmatian coast before the coming of the Veneti. Pliny the Elder (AD 23–79) mentions that Cornelius Nepos (100–24 BC) implied that the Paphlagonian Eneti ( Heneti ) were ancestors of the Veneti of Italy. He lists the towns of Ateste , Acelum , Patavium, Opitergium , Belunum , and Vicetia as belonging to the Veneti. The Greek historian Strabo (64 BC–AD 24), on the other hand, conjectured that

2790-473: The French, but were defeated and forced to retreat to Verona, where on 17 April the anti-French insurrections called " Pasque Veronesi " ( Pasque Veronesi ) began. ". On 17 October the Treaty of Campoformio was signed: the southwestern shores went to the French, while the north-eastern ones went to the Austrians. In 1799 the war continued until the following year the lake returned to French hands: it became part of

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2880-492: The Garda area, probably began in 225 BC, when there was a treaty of alliance between Cenomani, Veneti and Romans, even if the actual Romanization of the territory took place between the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. In 89 BC the rights of Latin cities were granted to the Garda areas by the will of the Roman consul Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo , while forty years later Roman citizenship was finally granted to Brixia (whose countryside included

2970-504: The Garda region seems to have occurred in 243 (or perhaps 245): it was so disastrous that the city of Benaco, located where Toscolano Maderno stands today, suddenly disappeared. The disappearance of the town is probably due to the cracking and landslide of the mountain above Toscolano, which caused the flooding of a small lake enclosed by the mountains, whose waters submerged the populous town. Other earthquakes, more or less intense, followed one another periodically: in 793, when according to

3060-673: The German command settled in Limone and, on 10 October, that of Benito Mussolini in Gargnano. The Ministry of Defense was located in Desenzano; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Popular Culture and the press agencies settled in Salò, which became the capital of the newborn Fascist Italy . At the end, Mussolini was strung up on a lamppost in his Lake Garda enclave . Fasano was

3150-524: The Lex Pompeia de Transpadanis and Roman citizenship in 49 BC in the Lex Roscia. Roman colonies established at Este , Concordia , and Trieste between 49 BC and 14 AD and at Oderzo and Zuglio during the reign of Claudius further contributed to the absorption of the Veneti into Roman culture. The equivalent of Apollo was Belenus in Veneto and Noricum . He had an oracle in

3240-655: The Paphlagonians, as from the Enetai province, and a few hundred years later Herodotus refers to the Enetoi twice, once as Illyrian and again as the occupants of the Adriatic sea. Krahe thought that the name of the Illyrian and Adriatic Enetos peoples are the same, and if Adriatic Enetoi were Adriatic Veneti (Venets) and Venets were the Vistula Veneti (Veneds) mentioned in other sources then Illyrians and Veneds were

3330-671: The Piedmontese army towards the lake: at the news of its approach, Salò rebelled against the Austrians, several soldiers were taken prisoner and the Austrian insignia demolished. During the events also Riva del Garda and several towns on the Veronese side rose up. The Austrian army was forced to retreat to the Mincio line due to the advance of the Piedmontese troops and on 4 April the Austrians were driven out of Lonato and Desenzano, while

3420-629: The Piedmontese attempt to conquer Peschiera was unsuccessful. After the Piedmontese defeat of Custoza the pre-war status quo was restored. In 1859 the Second War of Independence began; on 18 June the Hunters of the Alps managed to enter Salò, from where Giuseppe Garibaldi wanted to leave to continue the advance towards Veneto crossing the lake with some boats, but new orders forced him to move

3510-426: The Romans at the battle of Cannae . With the foundation of the Latin colony of Aquileia by Rome in 181 BC and laying of the Via Postumia in 148 BC followed by the Via Annia in 131 BC, Roman influence among the Veneti increased. The Veneti seem to have voluntarily and gradually adopted the Latin language, Roman architecture, Roman city planning, and Roman religion. Votive offerings sometimes appear in

3600-603: The Veneti and other Ancient Italic peoples , including the Venetic inscriptions from Este, were published by A. L. Prosdocimi , A. M. C. Bianchi and L. Capuis . Other tribes originally thought to have been Illyrians and shown to be actually related to the Veneti are: Histri , Carni , Catari , Catali , Liburni , Lopsi , Secusses , Venetulani . Lake Garda Lake Garda ( Italian : Lago di Garda , Italian: [ˈlaːɡo di ˈɡarda] , or (Lago) Benaco , Italian: [beˈnaːko] ; Eastern Lombard : Lach de Garda ; Venetian : Ƚago de Garda )

3690-409: The Venetic language written with the Roman alphabet or in Venetic with a Latin translation. Roman consuls were asked to adjudicate border disputes between Este and Padua in 141 and again in 135 BC and also a border dispute between Este and Vicenza . In 175 BC, Padua requested the aid of Rome in putting down a local civil war. The Veneti were given Latin rights after the Social War in

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3780-479: The Veronese shore of the lake, which, together with another famous locality of the lake, Gardone Riviera , and others less known – such as Gàrdola, Gardoncino, Gardoni, Guàrdola and Le Garde – testifies to the Germanic presence in the area that dated from the 6th to the 8th century CE, in particular, the Lombard one . The name Garda is evolved from the Germanic word warda , meaning "place of guard", "place of observation" or "place of safety". The classic toponym of

3870-451: The area, when Riva del Garda was hit. The steamers of the lake were requisitioned by the Italian army and were re-equipped as warships. The following year some guns and artillery batteries were installed, but on 20 February 1916, Riva was hit again. The following day three Austrian planes bombed Desenzano, while on 27 February bombs fell in Nago and Torbole. In 1918 Riva was bombed again. Later Limone and, once again, Riva were targeted, but with

3960-426: The border between three powerful Lombard duchies: Brescia, Verona and Trento. The first documents that testify the presence of a Fines Gardenses , an entity with its own officials for the administration of justice, even if not autonomous with respect to the Count of Verona, date back to 825, while after the year 1000 county of Garda was established by the emperor Henry II . Starting from the 11th century, towns around

4050-421: The borderlands of northern historical Macedonia . Later linguistic and paleontological studies further solidified their findings. Roman historian Titus Livius (59 BC–AD 17), himself a native of the Venetic town of Patavium , wrote that after the fall of Troy , the Trojan prince Antenor became the leader of the Paphlagonians after they all had been expelled from their homeland. Together, they migrated to

4140-433: The capitulation of the city. In 1508 the League of Cambrai was formed against the Serenissima: Venice strengthened the castles of its mainland domains, including those of Salò and Padenghe, and sent several galleys to the lake, as well as having new ones built directly on Lake Garda. During the war the Venetians lost part of their domains which were however recovered in 1512. In 1516 emperor Maximilian I came to Italy and

4230-425: The chroniclers it caused great calamities, especially in the Baldo area; in 1457, during which a mountain above Salò lowered; in 1703, when it caused the fall of numerous houses and caused many victims; in 1810, an earthquake particularly hit Malcesine where it caused a clouding of the waters and the formation of a crack 200 metres (660 feet) long and 18 centimetres (7.1 inches) wide in the town square; in 1836, when

4320-463: The city of Aquileia and was worshipped as the divine protector of the town. Belenus was also connected with springs, which may suggest chthonic and medicinal powers. Belenus was most likely of Celtic origin, and the dominant god of the Norici . Information about Venetic society can be deduced from artifacts, tombs, and religious votive objects. There were village heads. Wealthy landowners were buried with amber jewelry. The Veneti traded actively on

4410-412: The eastern coast, ATV (Verona Transport Company) provides at least five daily bus routes between Verona and Garda, with one route extending to Riva del Garda . Trentino Transporti provides daily bus routes between Riva del Garda and Rovereto or Trento . On the western coast, SAIA (Brescia Mobilità) provides regular bus services between Desenzano del Garda , Salò , Gargnano and Brescia . The lake

4500-404: The eastern one of approximately 1,040 square kilometres (400 sq mi). To the south of Lake Garda, between Brescia , Mantua and Verona , a large morainic amphitheatre develops: a succession of hilly circles with small flat areas interposed, in some cases marshy, originated thanks to the transport and storage action of the great Garda glacier. These morainic deposits were formed during

4590-536: The eastern shore of the lake. The Scaliger built numerous defensive constructions, in particular, they built the castles of Sirmione , Malcesine and Riva, reinforced the port structures of Lazise and Torri del Benaco , and built a great defense system called Serraglio , the only one of its kind in Italy. This fortified system, completed by Cangrande II in 1355, included isolated castles in Ponti sul Mincio and Monzambano , serious continuous and uninterrupted castles and towers connected by defensive walls starting from

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4680-463: The end of the war, Trentino also passed into Italian hands. In the period between the two wars the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio settled in Gardone Riviera , where the " Vittoriale degli Italiani ", his residence and now a museum, would later be built. Until 1943 the events of Second World War did not particularly affect the lake region, but following the birth of the Italian Social Republic (a German puppet state and Fascist Italian rump state ),

4770-417: The entire Garda region with extraordinary violence, causing the fall of chimneys and walls. Other earthquakes more recently hit Salò and its surroundings, in particular, the earthquake of 31 October 1901 caused widespread damage to buildings, some collapses and cracks in the ground, while another earthquake in 2004 caused damage to some buildings. The lake has also numerous small islands and five main ones,

4860-427: The fortress of Valeggio sul Mincio and then continuing up to Nogarole Rocca . The Seraglio remained practically intact until the mid-19th century when it was partially dismantled. In 1387, following the defeat of Antonio della Scala , the whole Garda area was subjected to the Visconti ; as early as 1405 the eastern shore passed into the hands of the Republic of Venice , while the western shore remained afflicted by

4950-404: The glaciations Günz , Mindel , Riss and Würm : very limited morainic deposits are attributed to the two oldest, Günz and Mindel, while the outer morainic circles are attributed to the Riss glaciation and the inner ones to the Würm glaciation. The morphology of the hills is gentle and with delicate lines; from the highest points, it is possible to perceive the relationships that link the hills to

5040-424: The hilly landscape. Traces of human presence around the lake have been found related to the Middle Paleolithic , in particular flint tools, but only above certain altitudes, as at lower altitudes, the actions of the glaciers have cancelled all the clues that could have proved the presence of man. There are some signs of encampments from Upper Paleolithic , in particular on the slopes of Monte Baldo and Stivo . In

5130-402: The hydrographic basin (2,290 square kilometres or 880 square miles) compared to the lake surface: at a length of 52 kilometres (32 mi) of the lake corresponds the 95 kilometres (59 mi) of the basin, while the respective widths are 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) and 42 kilometres (26 mi). The eastern watershed of the Benacense basin has a direction parallel to the axis of the lake, while

5220-434: The lake began to develop a differentiated policy compared to that of the major centres of influence – Brescia, Verona and Trento – and this greater autonomy meant that many centres became free communities. These possessed comfortable economic conditions compared to the inland countries and a strong social awareness and sense of community. In the 13th century, however, the Signoria Scaligera was established and it soon subdued

5310-412: The lake returned to German hands again, allowing the Serenissima to recover the lost territories. In 1796 the territories of the Serenissima were involved in the Napoleonic wars : at the end of May, the French advanced to the lake and defeated the Austrians at Borghetto sul Mincio, conquering Peschiera. At the end of July, the French were defeated and had to retreat beyond Salò, which was then occupied by

5400-412: The lake, or Benācus lacus ( Benaco ), is almost certainly of Celtic origin, therefore prior to romanization, and should derive from bennacus , comparable with the Irish bennach , which means "horned". The term may derive from the many promontories of the lake. The northern part of the lake is located in a depression that insinuates itself inside the Alps , while the southern part occupies an area of

5490-448: The largest being Isola del Garda . Nearby to the south is San Biagio island , also known as the Isola dei Conigli ("island of the rabbits"). Both are offshore of San Felice del Benaco , on the lake's western side. The three other main islands are Isola dell'Olivo, Isola di Sogno, and Isola di Trimelone, all farther north near the eastern side. The particularly mild climate favours the growth of some hardy Mediterranean plants, including

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5580-567: The mating season are silvery with very few black spots on the body and almost none on the head. During the mating season, some males develop a dark mottled body colouration. Garda lake trout reach a length of up to 50 centimetres (20 inches). They live primarily in depths of 100 to 200 metres (330 to 660 feet). They feed on zooplankton and bottom-dwelling crustaceans in summer. Males and females reach sexual maturity at two or three years. The mating takes place every one to two years. The spawning takes place in 50 to 300 metres (160 to 980 feet) depth in

5670-467: The modern conception of the term, however, developed from the end of the 19th century, even if it was still an élite tourism that concerned almost exclusively the north-western area of the lake. One of the first tourist resorts was Gardone Riviera , where the first small hotel was built. Expanded over time, it became one of the buildings that made up the luxurious Grand Hotel Gardone Riviera. In its vicinity other small hotels and villas slowly arose and, after

5760-464: The mountains as well as the circular amphitheatre shape of the hills, which seem to embrace the southern part of the lake. The main tributary of Lake Garda is the Sarca River , others include the Ponale River (fed by Lago di Ledro ), the Varone/Magnone River  [ de ] (via the Cascate del Varone ) and various streams from both mountainsides, while the only outlet is the Mincio River (79 metres or 259 feet, at Peschiera). The subdivision

5850-424: The northern end of the Adriatic coast where they established a settlement, and conquered and merged with indigenous people known as the Euganei . The story connects the Veneti with the Paphlagonian Eneti , mentioned by Homer (750 BC). Virgil (70-19 BC), in his epic the Aeneid , relates the same tradition. A commentary on Virgil's Aeneid by the grammarian Maurus Servius Honoratus (fl. c. AD 400)

5940-478: The oldest European river names with that of Old European hydronymy , a network of names of water courses dating back to the Bronze Age and to a time before Indo-European languages had developed in central, northern and western Europe. In his 1949 essay Ortsnamen als Geschichtsquelle ("Placenames as sources for history") Krahe presented the analysis of hydronymy (river names) as a source of information both historical and prehistorical, with an extended analysis of

6030-521: The organization of the territory and the inhabited centres. Furthermore, in the second half of the 20th century, a real entertainment industry was formed along Lake Garda as a series of parks were built. The most important is Gardaland , the biggest Italian theme park which hosts numerous tourist attractions. Lake Garda is also a popular destination for sport tourism . Riva, Torbole and Campione are famous for winds that attract people who practice sail , windsurf and kiteboard . The Centomiglia Regatta

6120-414: The poet Gabriele D'Annunzio had the Vittoriale degli Italiani built here, the fame of the place grew further. On the Veronese shore, tourism arrived much later, around the 1930s, when the current Strada Gardesana Orientale was built along the shores of the lake. With the arrival of tourists, "lakeside promenades" were planned. Since the 1950s tourism has undergone a sort of transformation: tourism with

6210-420: The provinces of Brescia (to the south-west), Verona (south-east) and Trentino (north). In Roman times the lake was known as Benacus and by some it was revered as god Benacus, the personification of the lake, sometimes associated with the cult of Neptune . Today it is better known as Lake Garda, a toponym of Germanic origin attested since the Middle Ages and deriving from that of the homonymous town on

6300-472: The river Main as an example (Krahe 1949:17ff.) He examined the layers of European water names and did so using two theses. The first thesis was that the oldest layer will always be the one that cannot be explained with the language of the people who currently live on the banks or shores of the given water, and/or consist of a monosyllabic stem carrying a meaning (at times derived or conjugated monosyllabic words). He found that these monosyllabic water names give

6390-428: The same people. The basis of this theory is the similarity of the proper nouns and place names, but most of all in the water names of the Baltic and the Adriatic (Odra, Drava, Drama, Drweca, Opawa, Notec, etc.). Having the model of Illyrian in mind he assumed that together these elements represented the remnant of one archaic language. In his later work Krahe substituted Julius Pokorny 's Pan-Illyrian theory concerning

6480-832: The seat of the German embassy and Gardone of the Japanese one, while the Ministry of the Interior and the seat of the Republican Fascist Party (PFR) found accommodation in Maderno. The upper part of the lake was also occupied militarily by the Wehrmacht . In April 1945 the lake was freed by the Allies and later became part of the Republic of Italy . The award winning documentary film The Lost Mountaineers looks at

6570-598: The so-called Italic group - the Latin-Faliscus, the Oscan-Umbrian along with Venetic-Baltic - and to some extent Slavic), though they still constituted a uniform Old European language which was to further divide later, had already dissociated from the ancient Indo-European language. The similarities in European water names resulted from the radiation of this old European system, and not from the resemblance of

6660-478: The southern and eastern shores, preferred to other areas due to their strategic importance: from here it was possible to control both the waterways of Garda and Mincio, and the Adige valley. During the Lombard hegemony, there was a first administrative reorganization, as well as the definitive Christianization of the area, begun in the previous centuries by Vigilius of Trent and Zeno of Verona . The lake remained on

6750-404: The spring wildflowers such as primroses , iris , violets and red lilies are born, while in summer some bloom varieties of wild orchids . Thanks to the presence of protected areas, hares and small wild mammals, water birds and birds of prey survive, while ponds and ditches are populated by pike , carp and eels . The herds of cattle, horses and other domestic animals give a bucolic aspect to

6840-474: The struggles between Guelphs and Ghibellines . In 1426 the Visconti lost Brescia and the western shore of the lake, which thus passed into the hands of Venice: gathered under the flag of the Republic of Venice, the 34 Benacense municipalities obtained ample autonomy. The war returned in 1438, due to the struggle between Venice and Milan : an exceptional event, remembered with the name of Galeas per montes ,

6930-546: The territory occupied by the ancient Veneti before their incorporation by the Romans is uncertain. It included cities of the modern Veneto such as Este , Padua , Vicenza , Asolo , Oderzo , Montebelluna , Vittorio Veneto , Cadore , as well as other areas around the Po Delta . Venetic territory was incorporated into Cisalpine Gaul , and under Augustus was organized as the tenth region ( Regio X Venetia et Histria ) of Roman Italy . Regio X stretched geographically from

7020-462: The then-current domains of the Veneti. The territory of the Veneti came to the notice of the Greeks in the 4th c. BC. Strabo records that Dionysius I of Syracuse (c. 432–367 BC), desiring the famed horses of the Veneti, founded trading colonies along the Adriatic coast. The Sicilian tyrant favored the town of Adria as a trading partner, helping it build canals which linked it to the sea and broke

7110-655: The trading monopoly of Spina. In 303/302 BC the Lacedaemonian prince Cleonymus of Sparta led a fleet of mercenaries up the Brenta River intending on sacking Patavium . However, the Veneti fought back and the Spartan ships were captured and destroyed. The Veneti were in recurring conflict with the Celtic peoples who then occupied most of Northwestern Italy, although they maintained peaceful relations with

7200-614: The tragic events that happened in the last days of the war in northern Lake Garda. According to the Greco-Roman mythology , the River Mincius was the child of the Lake Benacus. In ancient German Sagas , Garda was home to Ortnit . Around Lake Garda there are 26 comuni , the most populated being Desenzano del Garda (29,179 inhabitants), followed by Arco (17,857) and Riva del Garda (17,518). Garda's economy

7290-509: The tremors caused some landslides in Mount Tomè, in the northernmost part of Monte Baldo , which in turn caused a strong eruption of water. In 1866 a rather long period of seismic agitation began in the Baldo area, with earthquakes of varying intensity, tremors, shaking and other phenomena of lesser importance, which saw as the most important event the earthquake of 5 January 1892, which shook

7380-739: The troops in the Brescia valleys. However, the Italian troops managed to sink an Austrian steamship before leaving Salò. Shortly after the battle of Solferino and San Martino was won by the Franco-Savoyards and Peschiera was besieged. With the armistice of Villafranca the war was put to an end: Garda returned to be a land border, on this occasion between Italians and Austrians. During the Third War of Independence Garibaldi returned to Salò again and from there he invaded Trentino . Meanwhile,

7470-413: The upper Pianura Padana . The shape is typical of a moraine valley, probably having been formed under the action of a Paleolithic glacier. Although traces of the glacier's actions are evident today, in more recent years it has been hypothesised that the glacier occupied a previously existing depression, created by stream erosion 5 to 6 million years ago. A characteristic of Garda is the limited size of

7560-547: The very serious losses they suffered during the battle. The Roman presence is amply testified also by settlements, villas (in particular the notes Grottoes of Catullus ), by the remains of centuriation still visible today, by the remains of sanctuaries, tombstones and epigraphic testimonies. In the Middle Ages Lake Garda was described by Dante in his Divine Comedy : Suso in Italia bella giace un laco,

7650-480: The vicinity of underwater springs. The maximum age is five years. Areas around Lake Garda, inhabited since prehistoric times, are an environment of great naturalistic value, with vegetation typical of the Mediterranean climate such as olive trees , vines , lemon trees , agave and other plants, which thrive thanks to the microclimate created by the Garda basin, which makes winter particularly mild. During

7740-538: The western and northern banks of the Benaco) and Verona (which instead included the eastern shore). During the 1st century AD many roads were built, such as the via Gallica , which connected Verona to Milan passing through Peschiera (the ancient Arilica ), and the via Claudia Augusta , which connected the plain with the Resia pass and therefore the northernmost territories, as well as some minor roads that connected

7830-427: The western one has a more sinuous course. Within the basin, the major peaks are Presanella (3,556 metres or 11,667 feet) and Adamello (3,554 metres or 11,660 feet). Morphologically, the Garda hydrographic basin can be divided into four areas: the plain of about 200 square kilometres (77 sq mi), the lake surface of about 370 square kilometres (140 sq mi), the western portion of about 500 km² and

7920-579: Was a meeting point between the populations of Reti and Veneti , whose presence is testified in particular by the necropolis of Garda, as well as that of the Etruscans who came to trade in these areas. Also plausible is the presence of the Cenomani , who would have settled in the area between Brescia and the lake around the 6th century BC, leaving their traces mostly in the Lombard toponymy. The integration between Romans and Cenomani , who controlled

8010-514: Was a professor at the University of Würzburg , where he founded the Archiv für die Gewässernamen Deutschlands in 1942. Between 1947 and 1949 he held a chair at Heidelberg and from 1949 to the time of his death he was Professor für vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft und Slavistik and Leiter des indologischen und slavischen Seminars in the University of Tübingen . Krahe in his work of 1937 as

8100-463: Was the passage of a fleet composed of six galleys and twenty-five ships on the slopes of Monte Baldo, pulled by 2,000 oxen. This fleet sailed on Adige and almost reached Rovereto , from where it was transported to Lake Garda by land through the valley of Lake Loppio . The fleet was then used to counter the Milanese one and had its greatest success in a battle at Riva del Garda, which was followed by

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