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RIVA

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 373 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RIVA  , a fortified

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district
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town of Tirol, Austria, near the
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Italian frontier . Pop . (1900) 7550 . It is a lake
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port and steamship station at the
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northern extremity of the Lago di Garda . There are two forts on the
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Monte Brione a little over '
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Des Blut im Glauben and Aberglauben (Eng. trans., The Jew and Human Sacrifice,
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London, 1909).a mile north-east of the town, and the old castle of La Rocca was reconstructed and extended in accordance with
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modern requirements in 185o . The Minorite Church (1603), with altar pictures by Guido Reni and other Italian painters, is much frequented as a place of pilgrimage . In addition to. its transit trade and the entertainment of visitors, the
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principal resources of the town are the manufacture of paper, iron wares and pottery, the cultivation of the
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silk-
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worm and the olive tree, and a considerable commerce in
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timber, planks and
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coal . Riva is connected with the Ledro valley by a picturesque road which passes in a series of tunnels and galleries along the rocky and precipitous west
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shore of the lake .

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