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Piave River

Piave River

Infobox River
river_name = Piave


caption =
origin = Monte Peralba, Valle di Sappada (Province of Belluno)
mouth = Adriatic near Cortellazzo ("frazione" of Jesolo)
basin_countries = Italy
length = 220 km
elevation = 2,037 m
mouth_elevation =
discharge =
watershed = 4,126.84 km²

Piave (from Latin "Plavis" ) is a river in north Italy. It begins in the Alps and flows southeast for 220 km (135 miles) into the Adriatic Sea near the city of Venice.

In 1809 it was the scene of a battle during the Napoleonic Wars, in which Franco-Italian and Austrian forces clashed. In 1918, during World War I, it was the scene of Battle of the Piave River, the last major Austro-Hungarian attack on the Italian Front, which failed after costing Austria-Hungary nearly 200,000 casualties. The Battle of the Piave was the decisive battle of World War I on the Italian Front.

External links

* [http://www.ilpiave.it/ Site of italian newspaper "Il Piave"]


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