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| '''Padania''' is an area of Northern ]]. In the narrowest sense it is the valley of the ]; increasingly it has come to refer to a wider area, basically all of proseperous Northern Italy. This broader usage has been popularized in part by the ] (''Lega Nord'') a separatist northern Italian political party that uses the name ''Padania'' for the region it proposes to have secede from Italy. | |||
| The area including ]'s valley and the southern side of the ]. | |||
| ] is an Italian political party that democratically claims independence for Padania. | |||
| A file-infecting computer virus from 1999 also bears the name Padania, and carries a pro-Padania message in its code. An earlier, significantly less important, MSDOS computer virus is also named Padania. | A file-infecting computer virus from 1999 also bears the name Padania, and carries a pro-Padania message in its code. An earlier, significantly less important, MSDOS computer virus is also named Padania. | ||
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Padania is an area of Northern Italy]. In the narrowest sense it is the valley of the River Po; increasingly it has come to refer to a wider area, basically all of proseperous Northern Italy. This broader usage has been popularized in part by the Northern League (Lega Nord) a separatist northern Italian political party that uses the name Padania for the region it proposes to have secede from Italy.
A file-infecting computer virus from 1999 also bears the name Padania, and carries a pro-Padania message in its code. An earlier, significantly less important, MSDOS computer virus is also named Padania.
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