Lombard

The term Lombard refers to people or things related to Lombardy, a region in northern Italy.

History and culture

• Lombards, a Germanic tribe
• Lombardic language, the Germanic language spoken by the Lombards
• Lombards of Sicily, a linguistic minority living in Sicily, southern Italy
• Lombard League, a medieval alliance of some 30 cities in Northern Italy
• Lombard language, a Gallo-Italic language spoken in Northern Italy and southern Switzerland
  • Old Lombard, the form of the Lombard language from the 13th and 14th centuries
• Lombardic capitals, a decorative lettering style originally used in medieval manuscripts

Businesses

• ICICI Lombard, an insurance company in India
• Le Lombard (or Editions Lombard), a Belgian comic book publisher
• Lombard Bank, a bank in Malta
• Lombard North Central, a finance house in the United Kingdom

Places

France

• Lombard, Doubs, a commune of the Doubs département
• Lombard, Jura, a commune of the Jura département

United States

• Lombard, Illinois
• Lombard, Montana
• Lombard, Wisconsin

Other uses

• Lombard (surname)
• Lombard (gun), an early cannon
• Lombard Street (disambiguation)
• Automobiles Lombard, a French automobile manufacturer in the 1920s
• Lombard Steam Log Hauler
• Lombard, codename of the third generation PowerBook G3 laptop computers made by Apple Computer from 1999 to 2001
• the title character of Anna Lombard, a 1901 novel by Annie Sophie Cory
• Lombard (band), a Polish rock band
• "Lombard" (Miami Vice), an episode from the Miami Vice television series
• Lombard College, a now defunct institution of higher education in Galesburg, Illinois
• Lombard (grape), another name for the German/Italian wine grape Trollinger
  • Enfariné noir, French wine grape also known as Lombard
• Lombard (magazine), an Italian business magazine

See also

• Lombard banking, a form of medieval banking
• Lombard credit, a form of lending used by central banks
• Lombard effect, a phenomenon in which a speaker or singer involuntarily raises his or her vocal intensity in the presence of high levels of sound
• Lombard rhythm, a musical rhythm, especially used in Baroque music
• Lombardo, a family name
• Lombardi (disambiguation)