Trebbia

[ treb-byah ]

noun

1. a river in N Italy, flowing N into the Po at Piacenza: Romans defeated by Hannibal near here 218 b.c. 70 miles (113 km) long.

Example Sentences

The Trebbia river meets the Po near Piacenza, which is a good base from which to explore the region.

From The Guardian

Val Trebbia is a quiet corner of Italy that Ernest Hemingway called “the most beautiful valley in the world”.

From The Guardian

In the case of the Trebbia, which rises high in the Apennines and empties into the Po at Piacenza, it was otherwise, that river rolling pebbles and coarse gravel into the channel of the principal stream.

From Project Gutenberg

The valley of the Trebbia had been recently cleared, and all the forces which tend to the degradation and transportation of rock were in full activity.—Notice sur les Rivières de la Lombardie, Annales des Ponts et Chaussées, 1847, 1er sémestre, p.

From Project Gutenberg

Armies have been lost, the fate of empires decided, by the violation or neglect of the simple rules of hygiene; and all through the blood-stained pages of military history do we observe examples, from the time when Scipio lost the battle of Trebbia, or when Bajazet threw away his vast empire on the plains of Angora, down to Kunersdorf, when the impetuosity of Frederick the Great would not allow rest to his men or horses.

From Project Gutenberg