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Provincie of Rovigo inside the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia; greenish area is the other part of the lands that had been detached from the Papal States in 1815 but at first was annexed to the Province of Venice inside the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia; green and greenish areas together were detached in 1851 from the Province of Venice and annexed to the Province of Rovigo. Lighter land has recent formation, roughly from 1604 onwards.
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The Adige river flowed more to the north than nowadays and the main course of the Po river was more to the south (more or less it was the current Po of Volano channel). This means that in ancient times the area lying between the two rivers was much larger than the current area named
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took possession of the area north of the
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In 1604, river Po's natural course was artificially modified and after this work actual delta was formed. Floods frequently happened in
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river); the channel was given the name Adria and the sea was given the name
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inhabited the area during the 6th and 5th centuries BC, then it was conquered by the Romans. Etruscans and Romans decontaminated the area by digging canals for drainage.
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taken by rivers Po and Adige, and subsequently from human modifications. In fact, men reclaimed and decontaminated the area before embanking the biggest waterways.
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that then ruled over the southern part of the Po delta allowed the digging of a new final course for the Po known as the "cutting of Porto Viro"; the
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means exactly "cutting of Po" and refers to this event, that has been the last change in the main course of the river until today.
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in 1585. It can be noted that the main course of the Po was northern before the "cutting of Porto Viro" of 1604.
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