piedmont

plural piedmonts

1. Any region of foothills of a mountain range.

1. not comparableFormed or lying at the foot of a mountain range.

1. An administrative region in the north of Italy.
2. A geographic region and plateau of the eastern United States, between the Appalachian mountains and the coastal plain, extending from eastern Alabama to northern New Jersey.
3. A small city in Calhoun County and Cherokee County, Alabama, United States.
4. A city in Alameda County, California, United States.
5. A small city in Wayne County, Missouri, United States.
6. A city in Canadian County and Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States.
7. A census-designated place in Anderson County and Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.
8. A small city in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.
9. A small town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States.
10. A small municipality of Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
11. A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
12. historiographyAny region that could serve as a basis for national unification, as Piedmont did for the Italian Risorgimento.

    The rise of an independent Bulgarian state challenged the view of many Serbs that they were the "Piedmont" of the Balkans, the ones to unify all Balkan Slavs.

    1994, White, The Territorial Component of Nationalism in Southeastern Europe: The Cases of the Hungarians, Romanians, and Serbs, page 273

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    As it was, Greece had no 'Piedmont' with which to begin her Unification – no Piedmont to make alliances with other states, no Piedmontese bureaucracy and diplomatic service, no well-equipped and well-supplied regular army.

    1972, Dakin, The Unification of Greece, 1770–1923, →ISBN, page 262

    The more influental National Democratic party was founded in 1899, and it hoped to work through existing channels in Austria to create a separate Ukrainian province of eastern Galicia, which someday might become the Piedmont of an independent Ukrainian state on both sides of the Austro-Russian border.

    2002, Magocsi, The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism: Galicia as Ukraine's Piedmont, →ISBN, page 20