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Encyclopedia Britannica



CHIANA (anc. Clanis)

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 117 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CHA-CHR
CHIANA (anc. Clanis) , a river of Tuscany, which rises in the Apennines S. of Arezzo, runs through the valley of
Chiusi
 , and after receiving the Paglia just below Orvieto, falls into the Tiber after a course of 6o m. In Roman times its waters ran entirely into the Tiber. It often caused considerable floods in the valley of
Clusium
  (Chiusi) which were noticeable even in Rome itself, and in A.D. 15 it was proposed to divert
part
  of its waters into the Arnus, a project which was abandoned owing to the opposition of the Florentines (Tac. Ann. i. 76, 79). In the
middle
  ages the whole of its valley from Arezzo to Chiusi was an uninhabitable swamp; but at the end of the '8th
century
  the engineer
Count
 
Fossombroni
  took the matter in hand, and moved the watershed some 25 M. farther
south
 , so that its waters now flow partly into the
Arno
  and partly into the Tiber.


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