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ADDA (anc. Addua)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 183 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ADDA (anc. Addua)

ADDA (anc. Addua) , a See also:

RIVER

river of See also:

North See also:

Italy. Its true source is in some small lakes near the See also:

head of the Fragile glen, but its See also:

VOLUME

volume is increased by the See also:

union with several smaller streams, near the See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

BORMIO (Ger. Worms)

Bormio, at the Raetian See also:

ALPS

Alps. Thence it flows first S.W., then due W., through the fertile See also:

VALTELLINA (Ger. Veltlin; the name comes from the former capital, Teglio, near Tresenda)

Valtellina (q.v.), passing Tirano, where the Poschiavino falls in on the right, and See also:

SONDRIO

Sondrio, where is the junction with the Malero, right. It falls into the See also:

Lake of See also:

Como, at its See also:

NORTHERN

northern end, and mainly forms that lake. On issuing from its See also:

south-eastern or See also:

LECCO

Lecco See also:

ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm, it crosses the See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain of See also:

LOMBARDY

Lombardy, and finally, after a course of about 150 m., joins the Po, 8 m. above See also:

Cremona. The See also:

LOWER

lower course of the Adda was formerly the boundary between the territories of See also:

Venice and of See also:

Milan; and on its See also:

banks several important battles have been fought, notably that of See also:

LODI

Lodi, where See also:

NAPOLEON

Napoleon defeated the Austrians in 1796. (W. A. B.

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