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TICINO (Ger. Tessin, anc. Ticinus)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 933 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TICINO (Ger.
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Tessin, anc. Ticinus)  , a
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river of
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Switzerland and
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north
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Italy, which gives its name to the Swiss
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canton of
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Ticino (q.v.), and gave it in classical times to the
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town of
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Ticinum (
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Pavia) . It rises at the
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foot of the Gries Pass to the
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west of Airolo; from Airolo to the Lago
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Maggiore its valley bears the name of Val Leventina, and is followed as far as
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Bellinzona by the St Gotthard road and railway . It flows through Lago Maggiore, leaving it at its
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south end at Sesto Calende, and thence933 flows S.S.E. into the Po, which it joins a little way south of Pavia .

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