Lombard

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The term Lombard refers to members of or things related, directly or indirectly, to Lombardy, a region in northern Italy encompassing in the past all of northern Italy.

History and culture

• Lombards, a Germanic tribe
• Lombards of Sicily, a linguistic minority living in Sicily, southern Italy
• Lombard banking, Lombard is a historical term for pawn shops or moneychangers in the Middle Ages
• Lombard League, a medieval alliance of some 30 cities in Northern Italy
• Lombard rhythm, a musical rhythm, especially used in Baroque music

Language

• The current Lombard language, a Romance language spoken in parts of Switzerland and Northern Italy
• The extinct Lombardic language (Longobardic), a Germanic language spoken by the Longobards
• Lombard effect, a phenomenon in which a speaker or singer involuntarily raises his or her vocal intensity in the presence of high levels of sound

Commerce

• ICICI Lombard, an insurance company in India
• Le Lombard (or Editions Lombard), the Belgian comic book publisher
• Lombard Bank, a bank in Malta
• Lombard credit, a form of lending used by central banks
• Lombard Direct, an insurance company in the United Kingdom

Places

France

• Lombard, Doubs, a commune of the Doubs département
• Lombard, Jura, a commune of the Jura département

United States

• Lombard, California
• Lombard, Illinois
• Lombard, Montana
• Lombard, Wisconsin

Other uses

• Lombard (surname)
• Automobiles Lombard, a French automobile manufacturer in the 1920s
• Lombard, codename of third generation PowerBook G3 laptop computers made by Apple Computer from 1999 to 2001
• Anna Lombard, a 1901 novel by Annie Sophie Cory writing as Victoria Cross
• Lombard (band), Polish rock band
• Lombard College, a now defunct institution of higher education in Galesburg, Illinois
• Lombard (grape), another name for the German/Italian wine grape Trollinger
  • Enfariné noir, French wine grape that is also known as Lombard
• "Lombard" (Miami Vice), an episode from the Miami Vice television series
• Lombard (gun), an early cannon

See also

• Lombard Street (disambiguation)
• Lombardo (disambiguation), a family name
• Lombardi (disambiguation)

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