Map of La Rioja's Wine Region. The beautiful wine country of La Rioja is a fascination and historic region, regularly featured on our. Rioja was demarcated by the area's governing body, the CONSEJO REGULADOR, in 1926. The region extends for approx. 120 km along both sides of the Ebro River and is, at its widest, 50 kilometers, bounded by mountains on either side.
From Italian arrivederci (âgoodbyeâ), from a (âtoâ) with rivederci (âto see each other of us againâ), from the infinitive rivedersi (âto see each other again, to meet againâ), from ri- (âre-â) with the infinitive vedersi (âto see each otherâ), from vedere (âto seeâ) with the variable pronoun si (âoneself; one anotherâ).
The word is from Old French tribu, in turn from Latin tribus, referring to the original tripartite ethnic division of the Ancient Roman state: Ramnes (Ramnenses), Tities (Titienses), and Luceres, corresponding, according to Marcus Terentius Varro, to the Latins, Sabines, and Etruscans, respectively.ribe is a contested term due to its roots in colonialism. The word has no shared referent, whether in political form, kinship relations or shared culture.