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Pennine Alps

Geography
Pennine Alps
Location map of the Pennine Alps in the central Alps.
Altitude	4215 m, Pyramide Vincent
Solid	Alps
Administration
Country	Italy
Autonomous Region Region	Valle d'Aosta Piedmont
Provinces	Verbano-Cusio-Ossola , Vercelli , Biella , Novara
Geology
Rocks	Rocks, metamorphic and sedimentary
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Pennine Alps designate both a massive Alps (Italian: and an ancient Roman province The French translation does not distinguish between the two, but sometimes found the appellation of origin Alps Poenina to designate the province.

However, both refer to a geographical area that straddles two countries: Switzerland ( Valais ) and Italy ( Valle d'Aosta , Piedmont ).

The term Pennine Alps is still sometimes used as synonymous with the Valais Alps , but is restricted by their Italian side. They end on the south by the foothills Biellese (Cima di B).

Summary

1 Geography
2 Geology
3 History
- 3.1 Foundation of the Roman province
- 3.2 Etymology of pninus
4 Activities
- 4.1 Stations Winter Sports
5 See also
- 5.1 Articles Related
- External 5.2 Links
6 Notes and references

/ / Geography

The main peaks ^Geology

History

Before becoming a Roman province, Poenina Alps (Alpes Pnin) were at once a dam and a passageway. Livy cites the passage to the southern tribes of Celtic Boii and Lingones through the Alps Poenina, perhaps by the Col du Grand St. Bernard , the ^fourth century BC. AD

The province was formed through the territory of the four tribes Celts (Vragres, Sedun, and Uber Nantuates: the half-Germanic tribes, according to Livy ) occupying the Valais current.

Poenina the Alps in the Roman Empire, around 120

Foundation of the Roman province

Latin inscription of Falerio (Piceno) with the curriculum honorum T. Cornasidius Sabinus who was governor of the province of the Pennine Alps (procurator of Augustus with the right of the sword). Here the Pennine Alps are attached to the Alps Atractianarum

This region was conquered by Tiberius and Drusus to -15 , was first attached to the Rhaetian. All four cities appear to have kept Celtic first great autonomy, documents naming them either separately or in the name of the four cities of the valley Poenina.

To 47 , the emperor Claude created, close to the Celtic Octodurus the Forum Claudii Vallensium. This town became the capital of the Alps Poenina. It was then that the four cities of the region are combined into one, the civitas Vallenses.

The founding date of the province remains unclear. Indeed, there is little documentation describing the foundation itself; 47 is the date most commonly advanced as it corresponds with the founding of the Forum Claudii Vallensium, but others suggest a date as late as the second half of the ^second century.

From the third century at least the procurator of the province is also one of the Alps Graie (the Tarentaise ) unless we can clearly identify the date of attachment . Finally, these two provinces are designated during the late Roman Empire into a single province, the Alps and Graie Poenina. These two elements are to some historians say that the Alps Poenina never formed a province in its own right but were attached to the Alps Graie upon separation of the Rhaetian.

Celtic Agaune the toll (currently Saint-Maurice ), the Romans substituted a customs earning the Fortieth of Gaul , 2.5% tax on the value of the goods.

Etymology of pninus

Livy refuses to see any rapprochement with poenus (Carthage) and the incredible passage of the Carthaginians of Hannibal Barca in these places.
The great Gaffiot (edition 2000 ) gives this etymology him without question.
Another version derives the word of god Pennine which indigenous Celtic Penn reportedly erected a shrine to the Col du Grand St. Bernard.

Activities

Stations Winter Sports

References

Only the Italian peaks are listed. For vertices and Swiss border (choice etymological), see Valais Alps
History of Rome, V-35
Francois Berard, "A new procurator to Love in the Tarentaise. Savoy, Gallia, 52, 1995, p. 355-356 Read online
Roman History, XXI-38

The ancient sites in Switzerland
Augusta Raurica \| Aventicum \| Noviodunum \| La Tene \| Lousonna \| Octodurus \| Vallis Poenina \| Vitudurum

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