Sangro

The Sangro is a river in eastern central , known in ancient times as Sagrus from the Greek Sagros or Isagros, Ισαγρος. It rises in the middle of Abruzzo National Park near in the .
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in Italy
  • Also known as: “Sangro River”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fossacesia-Torino di Sangro railway station and Sangro River War Cemetery.

Railway station
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Cemetery
Photo: ALESSIOTERZO, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a British and Commonwealth war cemetery sited by a hillside near in the , . In this cemetery are buried 2,542 soldiers from the and the British Commonwealth who died in World War II defending the shoreline near the Sangro River against the retreating German soldiers on the Winter Line.

Building
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is a building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Le Morge and Rocca San Giovanni.

Locality
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is a frazione on the Adriatic Sea in the , in the region of eastern . is situated 4 km southeast of Sangro.

Village
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is a comune and town in the in the region of . It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia. is situated 7 km west of Sangro.

Sangro

Latitude
42.23506° or 42° 14′ 6″ north
Longitude
14.54156° or 14° 32′ 30″ east
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
8FJP6GPR+2J
Geo­Names ID
3168188
Wiki­data ID
Q71621
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Sangro” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سانغرو”
  • Armenian: “Սանգրո”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Sangro”
  • Basque: “Sangro”
  • Bosnian: “Sangro”
  • Catalan: “Sangro”
  • Chinese: “桑格羅河”
  • Chuvash: “Сангро”
  • Dutch: “Sangro”
  • Estonian: “Sangro”
  • French: “Sangro”
  • Galician: “Río Sangro”
  • German: “Sangro”
  • Hungarian: “Sangro”
  • Irish: “Sangro”
  • Italian: “Sangro”
  • Japanese: “サングロ川”
  • Korean: “산그로강”
  • Latin: “Sagrus”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sangro”
  • Polish: “Sangro”
  • Russian: “Сангро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sangro”
  • Spanish: “Río Sangro”
  • Spanish: “Sangro”
  • Swedish: “Sangro”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Sangro”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Spiaggia della Borgata Marina and Riserva naturale Lecceta di Torino di Sangro.

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