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ARTICLES RELATED TO Parma - History | | | |  Parma - History: Encyclopedia II - Parma - HistoryThe city was most probably founded and named by the Etruscans, for a parma (circular shield) was a Latin borrowing, as were many Roman terms for particular arms, and Parmeal, Parmni and Parmnial are names that appear in Etruscan inscriptions. Diodorus Siculus (XXII, 2,2; XXVIII, 2,1) reported that the Romans had changed their rectangular shields for round ones, imitating the Etruscans. Whether the Etruscan encampment was so named because it was round, like a shield, or whether its situation was a shield against the Gauls to the n ...
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| | | | Parma - History: Encyclopedia II - Parma - Miscellaneous Parma hosts the Teatro Regio, a famous opera theatre.
Stendhal set much of his masterpiece (The Charterhouse of Parma) in the city, even though there was no "Charterhouse" in real life.
The Serie A football club Parma F.C. play in the city's Ennio Tardini stadium. Parma is also home to two rugby union teams, Overmach Rugby Parma and SKG Gran Rugby.
Parma - Famous people from Parma.
Giambattista Bodoni, typographer
Charles Ponzi, swindler and namesake of the Ponzi scheme< ...
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