In the ninth century the name Lombardy was synonymous with Italy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

Others, in Lombardy, advocated a strict observance of Mosaic law.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries] Reference

Settlements were offered to the Goths in Lombardy, and they advanced from the Po towards the Alps to take possession of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

The reason Lombardy is called Lombardy is because the German's who took over the place had "long beards.".    From Wordnik.com.  [podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history] Reference

Before the Roman conquest, the country which is now called Lombardy, was not considered as a part of Italy.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1] Reference

They seized the territory north of the river Po -- a region ever since known as Lombardy -- and established their capital at Pavia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Its branches are straight, and rise in a pyramid, nearly like the poplar of the Mississippi, erroneously called the Lombardy poplar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

A pyramid, nearly like the poplar of the Mississippi, erroneously called the Lombardy poplar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

The war in Lombardy made farther progress impossible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

Lombardy and Venetia, and toward the four provincial capitals.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

Lombardy poplars, pointing to another race and another country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada] Reference

At Venice he took a train which carried him through Lombardy into.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The country of Lombardy alone seemed to her to be well cultivated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Lombardy poplar, which is supposed to be merely a form of the black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

No one spoke or thought of any thing but the coming war in Lombardy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

They were to wait for her in Lombardy, and then accompany her to Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference

The final World Ranking event after the Vuelta is the Tour of Lombardy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hesjedal and Gesink improve their world rankings, as Rodriguez closes on Contador] Reference

"Diantha Sinclair reminds me of a Lombardy poplar," remarked Mrs. West.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference

Lombardy from the Austrian yoke, and handed it over to Victor Emmanuel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference

In 1164 it joined the Lombardy league, and instituted its free government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference

It had ample grounds, and in front stood two tall and graceful Lombardy poplars.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference

High in the startled heavens rose the thunder of preparations for the war in Lombardy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

Meinherr Schatt lamented deeply the present state of things arising from the war in Lombardy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

Lombardy and the March, -- in Bergamo, in Brescia, even as far as Mantua he had been heard of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

The investigation jointly coordinated between Lombardy and Calabria began more than two years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Police Arrest Hundreds In Anti-Mafia Raids] Reference

The lombard, which apparently originated in Lombardy, and the basilisk had the same disadvantages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference

They travelled home rapidly, up through Lombardy, merely glancing at Turin and Milan and the Lakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

Belleisle the Austrians retired into Lombardy, and a desultory campaign was waged up to the conclusion of peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

As provincial governor in Lombardy, Bossi stopped the construction of several mosques to deter Muslim immigrants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

The Tre Valle Varesine opens the three-race Trittico Lombardo, a trio of races across the Lombardy region of Italy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Racing this Week: Eneco, Limousin, Plouay and women’s World Cup finale] Reference

After investigating the news, VeloNews has learned that the team will indeed be on the start line of the Lombardy race October 17.    From Wordnik.com.  [It was all a mistake: Team RadioShack to race Lombardy afterall] Reference

So at six the next morning they went flying over the sea, over the lagoons, over the marshes, over the plains, away toward Lombardy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

Its name is derived from the Longobardi, the tribe for whom it was the home and centre, and from it the colonization of Lombardy started.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

We are having up in Ontario, beyond Toronto, a blight that has attacked the Lombardy poplar and that looks similar to the chestnut blight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference