Map of La Rioja's Wine Region. The beautiful wine country of La Rioja is a fascination and historic region, regularly featured on our. Rioja was demarcated by the area's governing body, the CONSEJO REGULADOR, in 1926. The region extends for approx. 120 km along both sides of the Ebro River and is, at its widest, 50 kilometers, bounded by mountains on either side.
From Italian arrivederci (âgoodbyeâ), from a (âtoâ) with rivederci (âto see each other of us againâ), from the infinitive rivedersi (âto see each other again, to meet againâ), from ri- (âre-â) with the infinitive vedersi (âto see each otherâ), from vedere (âto seeâ) with the variable pronoun si (âoneself; one anotherâ).
When the Romans first encountered Greek colonists in southern Italy, they used the name Graeci for the colonists and then for all Greeks; this became the root of all relevant terms in European languages.he priests of Zeus in Dodona were called Selloi which could lead to Sellanes (like Akarnanes) and then to Hellanes-Hellenes. However the toponyms and the Greek tradition indicate that it is more possible that the homeland of the Greeks was originally in central Greece and that the name was probably Pre-Dorian.