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Piedmont
Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of...

is a region of northwestern Italy, but may also refer to:

Cities

United States
  • Piedmont, Alabama
    Piedmont, Alabama
    Piedmont is a city in Calhoun and Cherokee counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. The population was 5,120 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Anniston-Oxford, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. Many surrounding communities utilize the 36272 ZIP code, including Spring Garden, Rock Run,...

  • Piedmont, California
    Piedmont, California
    Piedmont is a small, affluent city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is surrounded by the city of Oakland. The population was 10,667 at the 2010 census. Piedmont was incorporated in 1907 and was developed significantly in the 1920s and 1930s...

  • Piedmont, Missouri
    Piedmont, Missouri
    Piedmont is a fourth-class city located in northwestern Wayne County in Southeast Missouri in the United States. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the city's population was 1,992; a 2007 estimate, however, showed the population to be 1,913. A part of the Ozarks Foothills Region, Piedmont is...

  • Piedmont, Oklahoma
    Piedmont, Oklahoma
    Piedmont is a city in Canadian and Kingfisher counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and it is a part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area. The population was 3,650 at the 2000 census...

  • Piedmont, South Carolina
    Piedmont, South Carolina
    Piedmont is a census-designated place along the Saluda River in Anderson and Greenville counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The population was 4,684 at the 2000 census....

  • Piedmont, South Dakota
    Piedmont, South Dakota
    Piedmont is a city in Meade County, South Dakota, United States. According to the 2010 Census, the population was 222. Piedmont lies along Interstate 90 between Rapid City and Sturgis. Piedmont has been assigned the ZIP Code of 57769.-History:...

  • Piedmont, Virginia
    Piedmont, Virginia
    The Piedmont region of Virginia is a part of the greater Piedmont region which stretches from the falls of the Potomac, Rappahannock, and James Rivers to the Blue Ridge Mountains. The region is 50 miles wide, more or less, and 100 miles in length...

  • Piedmont, Washington
    Piedmont, Washington
    Piedmont is a small unincorporated community in Clallam County, Washington, United States. It is located on Lake Crescent in the northwestern corner of the Olympic National Park. Because of its convenient location near Port Angeles, Piedmont has become an important recreational area.Settler John...

  • Piedmont, West Virginia
    Piedmont, West Virginia
    Piedmont is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the 'Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area'. The population was 1,014 at the 2000 census. Piedmont was chartered in 1856...

  • Piedmont, Wyoming
    Piedmont, Wyoming
    Piedmont is a ghost town located in Uinta County, Wyoming. It was once a thriving small railroad and timber town, but started to decline when Union Pacific opened a new line that bypassed the town.- Geography :...

  • Piedmont, Arizona
    Piedmont, Arizona
    Piedmont is a ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. It was located between the Weaver Mountains and the Date Creek Mountains of Arizona, on Date Creek Road . It was near the ghost towns of Congress and Hillside...



Canada
  • Piedmont, Nova Scotia
    Piedmont, Nova Scotia
    Piedmont is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Pictou County.-References:*...

  • Piedmont, Quebec
    Piedmont, Quebec
    Piedmont is a small municipality within the Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada, in the Laurentian Mountains of the administrative region of Laurentides...


Colleges

  • Piedmont College
    Piedmont College
    Piedmont College is a private liberal arts institution founded in 1897 to serve residents of the Appalachian area of northeast Georgia, USA. When the college was first founded, it was established as the J.S. Green Collegiate Institute named after a local banker. In 1899, the name was shortened to...

    , a private liberal arts school in Demorest, Georgia
  • Piedmont Community College
    Piedmont Community College
    Piedmont Community College is a multi-campus two-year post-secondary institution in Person and Caswell counties in North Carolina. It serves approximately 60,000 residents in the rural area, and is one of fifty-eight schools in the North Carolina Community College System.Current student enrollment...

    , a two-year college in Person and Caswell counties in North Carolina
  • Piedmont Technical College
    Piedmont Technical College
    Piedmont Technical College is a comprehensive two-year community college that serves seven counties in the Lakelands region of South Carolina. The college's primary site is the Lex Walters Campus in Greenwood, South Carolina. Six additional County Centers also serve students in Abbeville County,...

    , a two-year college in the Lakelands region of South Carolina
  • Central Piedmont Community College
    Central Piedmont Community College
    Central Piedmont Community College is a large community college in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The school was founded in 1963; it is the result of a merger between Mecklenburg College and the Central Industrial Education Center....

    , a community college in Charlotte, North Carolina
  • Piedmont Virginia Community College
    Piedmont Virginia Community College
    ' is an open access community college offering two-year associate's degrees, one-year certificates, continuing education and workforce training. The campus is located in Albemarle County, Virginia, south of Charlottesville...

    , a two-year college in Albemarle County, Virginia
  • Piedmont Baptist College
    Piedmont Baptist College
    Piedmont Baptist College and Graduate School is a private Bible College and Graduate School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Originally called Piedmont Bible Institute , the school changed its name in 2006 to its current name to reflect its heritage and expansion...

    , a Bible college and seminary in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  • South Piedmont Community College
    South Piedmont Community College
    South Piedmont Community College is a community college located in North Carolina consisting of two campuses and an auxiliary center which serve the areas of Anson and Union counties in south-central North Carolina....

    , a community college in Anson and Union counties in North Carolina

Other

  • Ice piedmont
    Ice piedmont
    An ice piedmont consists of "Ice covering a coastal strip of low-lying land backed by mountains."-References:*The Crossing of Antarctica by Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary Cassell, London, 1958...

    , a geographic feature
  • Piedmont (1917 automobile)
    Piedmont (1917 automobile)
    The Piedmont was a car made by the Piedmont Motor Car Company, Inc, of Lynchburg, Virginia. It was produced in a variety of closed and open body shells and was powered by 4- and 6-cylinder Lycoming or Continental engines. The company also made cars for other companies, such as Alsace, Bush, and...

    , a car made by the Piedmont Motor Car Company of Lynchburg, Virginia
  • Piedmont Airlines
    Piedmont Airlines
    Piedmont Airlines is an American regional airline operating for US Airways Express. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the US Airways Group, headquartered in unincorporated Wicomico County, Maryland, near the city of Salisbury, it conducts flight operations using De Havilland Canada Dash 8 aircraft...

    , a regional airline operating under the name US Airways Express
  • Piedmont Airlines (1948-1989)
    Piedmont Airlines (1948-1989)
    Piedmont Airlines was a major airline in the United States which operated from 1948 until its operations were merged into USAir in 1989. Its headquarters were located at One Piedmont Plaza in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a building which is now part of Wake Forest University.As of April 1989,...

    , an airline that was merged into US Air
  • Piedmont blues
    Piedmont blues
    Piedmont blues refers primarily to a guitar style, the Piedmont fingerstyle, which is characterized by a fingerpicking approach in which a regular, alternating thumb bass string rhythmic pattern supports a syncopated melody using the treble strings generally picked with the fore-finger,...

     or "Piedmont fingerstyle", a style of blues guitar playing
  • Piedmont League
    Piedmont League
    The Piedmont League was a minor league baseball league that operated from 1920 through 1955. The league operated principally in the Piedmont plateau region in the eastern United States.- Former :...

    , defunct minor league baseball organization
  • Piedmont (train)
    Piedmont (train)
    The Piedmont is a twice daily passenger train that travels between Raleigh and Charlotte with a run time of 3 hours and 9 minutes, including intermediate stops at Cary, Durham, Burlington, Greensboro, High Point, Salisbury, and Kannapolis. It follows the same exact route and uses the same stations...

    , an Amtrak passenger train in North Carolina
  • Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, the name given to the possessions of the House of Savoy in 1723
  • Piedmont Triad
    Piedmont Triad
    The Piedmont Triad, or Triad, is a north-central region of the U.S. state of North Carolina that consists of the area within and surrounding the three major cities of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point. This close group or "triad" of cities lies in the Piedmont geographical region of the...

    , a region centered around three cities in North Carolina
  • Piedmont Crescent
    Piedmont Crescent
    The Piedmont Crescent, also known as the Piedmont Urban Crescent, is a large, polycentric urbanized region in the U.S. state of North Carolina that forms the northern section of the rapidly developing I-85 Corridor megalopolis in the southeastern United States...

    , a geographical phenomenon of urban areas arranged in a crescent shape in North Carolina
  • Piedmont Park
    Piedmont Park
    Piedmont Park is a urban park in Atlanta, Georgia, located about northeast of Downtown, between the Midtown and Virginia Highland neighborhoods. Originally the land was owned by Dr. Benjamin Walker, who used it as his out-of-town gentleman's farm and residence...

    , a major city park in Atlanta, Georgia
  • Piedmont Road in Milpitas, California
  • Piedmont Heights (Duluth)
    Piedmont Heights (Duluth)
    Piedmont Heights is a neighborhood in Duluth, Minnesota, United States.Piedmont Avenue, Chambersburg Avenue, and Morris Thomas Road are three of the main arterial routes in the community. The neighborhood is located between Skyline Parkway and Haines Road....

    , a neighborhood in the city of Duluth, Minnesota
  • Piedmont, Utah, fictional setting for part of the miniseries The Andromeda Strain (miniseries)
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