Arno

Arno

Arno river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, rising in the Northern Apennines, Tuscany, central Italy, and flowing south to Arezzo where it turns northwest; it proceeds generally west, through Florence and Pisa, to empty into the Ligurian Sea. The Arno valley is fertile and densely populated. Its upper valley, the Casentino, is famous for its scenery. In 1966 a great flood on the Arno heavily damaged the art treasures of Florence.

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Arno

Arno, Tuscany/Italy Arnus A river with both the Latin and present names coming from the Indo‐European root word ar ‘river’ or ‘water’.

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Arno ♂ Germanic: originally a short form of names beginning with arn ‘eagle’, for example Arnold and Arnulf.

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