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Arzachena Academy Costa Smeralda
Arzachena Academy Costa Smeralda

Arzachena Academy Costa Smeralda is an Italian association football club located in Arzachena, Sardinia. The club currently play in Serie D, the fourth tier of Italian football.

Arzachena
Arzachena

Arzachena is a town and comune in the province of Sassari, northern Sardinia, the second largest island off the coast of Italy. Arzachena lies half way between the original Costa Smeralda resort and Porto Rafael, both founded in the late 1950s.

Arzachena culture
Arzachena culture

The Arzachena culture was a pre-Nuragic culture of the Late Neolithic Age occupying Gallura and part of southern Corsica from approximately the 4th to the 3rd millennium BC. It takes its name from the Sardinian town of Arzachena. Arzachena culture is best known for its megalithic structures, such as the characteristic "circular graves" and menhirs.

Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī
Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī

Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyā al-Naqqāsh al-Zarqālī al-Tujibi ; also known as Al-Zarkali or Ibn Zarqala (1029–1087), was an Arab Muslim instrument maker, astrologer, and the most important astronomer from the western part of the Islamic world.Although his name is conventionally given as al-Zarqālī, it is probable that the correct form was al-Zarqālluh. In Latin he was referred to as Arzachel or Arsechieles, a modified form of Arzachel, meaning 'the engraver'.

Pontedera
Pontedera

Pontedera (Latin: Pons Herae) is an industrial town in the province of Pisa, Tuscany, central Italy. It houses the headquarters of the Piaggio company, of the wine company Castellani and of chocolate factory Amedei.

Pontedera Airfield
Pontedera Airfield

Pontedera Airfield is an abandoned military airfield in Italy, located within the town of Pontedera, in Tuscany in the administrative province of Pisa. It was an all-weather temporary field built by the XII Engineer Command using a graded earth compacted surface, with a prefabricated hessian surfacing known as PHS. PHS was made of an asphalt-impregnated jute which was rolled out over the compacted surface over a square mesh track (SMT) grid of wire joined in 3-inch squares.

Pontedera Airport

The Pontedera airport was an airport located in Pontedera, Italy. It was built south-west of the city centre in 1913.

Pontederiaceae
Pontederiaceae

Pontederiaceae is a family of flowering plants. The APG IV system of 2016 places the family in the order Commelinales, in the commelinid clade, in the monocots.

Pontederia
Pontederia

Pontederia is a genus of tristylous aquatic plants, members of which are commonly known as pickerel weeds. Pontederia is endemic to the Americas, distributed from Canada to Argentina, where it is found in shallow water or on mud.

Pontedeva
Pontedeva

Pontedeva is a small municipality in Ourense in the Galicia region of north-west Spain. It is located to the very west of the province.

Ponedera
Ponedera

Ponedera is a municipality and town in the Colombian department of Atlántico.

Ponte de Rubiães
Ponte de Rubiães

The Ponte de Rubiães is a Roman bridge in the civil parish of Rubiães, Paredes de Coura municipality, northern Portugal. It crosses the small river Coura.

Pontederia cordata
Pontederia cordata

Pontederia cordata, common name pickerelweed or pickerel weed (UK), is a monocotyledonous aquatic plant native to the American continent. It grows in a variety of wetlands, including pond and lake margins across an extremely large range from eastern Canada south to Argentina.