Hm,

in my hometown we have four ice-cream shops. three of them are called "Venezia"...

Regards, Chris

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From: raedwulf16

To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 8:49 PM

Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: pianosa island and pianosa island

Thanks.that makes perfect sense to me ..although I do maintain that no place should have the same name as another place(to avoid possible confusion) but I also realize that that is too sensible a thing to do, and will not occur in my brief lifespan....Thanks again ...raedwulf --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002" <orc@o...> wrote: > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "raedwulf16" > <raedwulf16@y...> wrote: > > hi just for fun,,,does anyone know why there are two islands in > > Italy...one off the east coast and one off the west coast with the > > same name.. PIANOSA??? www.pianosa.net/ cartina-di- > > pianosa.htm www.ciaogargano.it/.../ > > it_tur_trem_pianosa.html > > what do you mean by why > > likely they are both just flat islands close enough to italy to have > each been named flat island in the italian language of the time in > which they were named > independently & without relation to each other > > other flat italian islands go by the name of isola piana > using the more usual modern form of the italian word for flat > > 20 islands in the usa are also named flat island > 11 of them scattered around alaska > etc etc