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- A town of northern Italy on the Po River southeast of Milan. Founded by Romans as Placentia in 218 BC, it was occupied by Goths, Lombards, and Franks and became a free city and part of the Lombard League in the 1100s.
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- proper noun Province of
Emilia-Romagna ,Italy . - proper noun Capital of the province of Piacenza.
Etymologies
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Based in Piacenza was a small sect consisting of followers of the teachings of one of the city's consuls, Hugo Speroni, who began to preach a doctrine of predestination circa 1175.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Some (the followers of Hugo Speroni), in Piacenza, preached predestination.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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By the 1230s, Gregory IX had established the Dominican Inquisition, which was greeted with antagonism and violence, particularly in Piacenza.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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An Italian-style sausage, typical of Piacenza, that is very mild.
Netvouz - new bookmarks foxglove 2010
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In Italy, it recommends northern towns such as Piacenza, Mantua or Verona, "where you have big supermarkets, gyms, clubs of every variety - and beautiful old centres, or Bergamo, near the Italian lakes, skiing and Milan".
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The Via Emilia now a modern highway called SS9 spans a distance of about 165 miles between Piacenza, which sits beside the Po River midway between Milan and Bologna, and Rimini on the Adriatic coast.
Dr. Irene S. Levine: A Road Trip on the Via Emilia (PHOTOS) Dr. Irene S. Levine 2011
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Piacenza is about an hour and a half away from the airport.
Dr. Irene S. Levine: A Road Trip on the Via Emilia (PHOTOS) Dr. Irene S. Levine 2011
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Se explica, que cuando nuestro santo se trasladó al bosque para no infectar de esta manera a los vecinos de Piacenza, recibía cada día la visita de un perro que le llevaba un panecillo.
Global Voices in English » Bolivia: Honoring Dogs on the Feast of St. Roch 2009
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As the story goes, our saint went to the forest in order to not infect the residents of Piacenza, and each day he was visited by a dog that took him a piece of bread.
Global Voices in English » Bolivia: Honoring Dogs on the Feast of St. Roch 2009
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In March 1095 Urban was presiding over an ecclesiastical council in the northern Italian city of Piacenza when ambassadors from Byzantium arrived.
'The Crusades' 2010
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