Thursday, 7 August 2014
Marche is one of the 20 regions of Italy. In English,
this region is also known as the Marches. Marche extends over an area of 9,694
square kilometres of the central Adriatic
slope between Emilia-Romagna to the north, Tuscany and Umbria to the west, and Lazio
and Abruzzo to the south, the entire eastern boundary being formed by the Adriatic.
Marche was known in ancient times as the Picenum territory. Source
