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Marche

Marche

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A region in central Italy with rolling hills and a coastline on the Adriatic Sea
  • proper noun
translation icon : Marche
  • The capital city of Marche, Ancona, is known for its lively port.
  • Marche region
  • Marche in Italy
  • Marche and Umbria

Examples

  • In the hills above Roccafluvione, a tiny Italian town in the Le Marche region with a single functioning traffic light, 6,000

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  • Marche is famous for its beautiful beaches along the Marche coastline.

  • I'm thinking a lot about now: Friuli, Le Marche, Slovenia, and Croatia.

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  • I have taught English as an "esperta di madrelingua" (mother tongue expert) in a technical high school, I have helped my husband run an Italian language school, and I ran a restaurant (I was the cook!) and the first internet café in the Marche.

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  • The pigs were raised in 6 farrow-to-finish farms, 2 fattening farms, and 1 weaner indoor farm in central Italy (7 farms in the Umbria region and 2 farms in the Marche region).

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  • Tourists love exploring the rolling hills and vineyards of the Marche region.

Synonyms

Marches
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7.1

A region in central Italy with rolling hills and the city Ancona

emphasizes coastal scenery and seaside features instead

Surface Forms

Marche main

Etymology

Marche comes from an old word marca meaning 'border' or 'edge'. Long ago groups of border lands were called 'marches', so the region's name means 'the borderlands'.