A region of northern Italy which takes it‘s name from the Via Emilia, the Roman road built by the Consul Marco Emilio Lepido which links Rimini and Piacenza while the term Romagna was only added in 1947. It is composed of the northern side of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, which are not very high apart from Mount Cimone, 2.165 metres, and the fertile Po Valley Basin with it‘s numerous rivers, the most important of which is the Po. To the east it's washed by the Adriatic Sea, to the north it borders on Veneto and Lombardia, to the west with Piemonte (along a border of less than 8 km) and Liguria, to the south with Tuscany, the Marche and also the Republic of San Marino.