or provinces in which they are located; for example the Ligurian Apennines are in Liguria.

Etymology

The etymology most frequently repeated, because of its semantic appropriateness, is that it derives from the Celtic penn, 'mountain', 'summit': ''A-penn-inus'', which could have been assigned during the Celtic domination of north Italy in the 4th century BC or before. The name originally applied to the north Apennines. However, historical linguists have

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