Polesine

This map highlights the location of what is nowadays Polesine in Italy.

Polesine (Italian: [poˈleːzine]; unified Venetian script: Połéxine [poˈɰezine]; Ferrarese: Pulésan) is a geographic and historic area in the north-east of Italy whose limits varied through centuries; it had also been known as Polesine of Rovigo for some time.

Nowadays it corresponds with the province of Rovigo in the viewpoint of political geography.[1] In the viewpoint of physical geography it is a strip of land about 100-km long and 18-km wide located between the lower courses of the Adige and the Po rivers, limited to the east by the Adriatic Sea and leaving the western limit undefined.[2]

  1. ^ "polesine". Il Vocabolario Treccani (in Italian). Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. 1992. Archived from the original on 2008-02-16. Retrieved 2007-11-22.
  2. ^ "Polesine". Enciclopedia Generale. Novara: De Agostini Scuola. 2001.