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- Livorno is a main port town in Tuscany. It was traditionally called Leghorn in English, nowadays the name is used to refer to a breed of chickens which were exported to North America from the Livorno port.
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Apr 30, 2015 · Can anyone tell me why the Tuscan city of Livorno used to be called Leghorn in English? An increasing number of British writers, artists, philosophers, and travelers visited the area and developed the unique historical ties between the two communities. The British referred to the city as Leghorn.
It is traditionally known in English as Leghorn (pronounced / l ɛ ˈ ɡ ɔːr n / leg-ORN, [4] [5] / ˈ l ɛ ɡ h ɔːr n / LEG-horn [6] or / ˈ l ɛ ɡ ər n / LEG-ərn). [7] [8] [9] During the Renaissance, Livorno was designed as an "ideal town". Developing considerably from the second half of the 16th century by the will of the House of ...
Well, the older form of Livorno was 'Legorno' - and that was when it was a major trading partner with some English/British merchants. Leghorn is not that far from Legorno, though I'm not entitely sure where the 'h' came from :)
The origins of the Leghorn are not clear; it appears to derive from light breeds originating in rural Tuscany. The name comes from Leghorn, the traditional anglicisation of Livorno, the Tuscan port from which the first birds were exported to North America.
Jan 20, 2018 · Livorno Italy is a classy Italian city with a clumsy English name: Leghorn. But that should not stop you from visiting this Tuscan seaside gem that has more to offer than just a ferry terminal.
Apr 27, 2009 · The word derives from the Latin ‘domus’, a house or dwelling, the dome or ‘cupola’ being far from a ‘sine qua non’. In going to the art ‘gallery’, beware lest you end up down some tunnel, the other meaning of ‘galleria’. The originally Greek ‘pinacoteca’ – picture store – might be a better bet.
Livorno, in English Leghorn, is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, the third-largest port on the western coast of Italy, and the home to a naval academy.
