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Colle di Val d'Elsa, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italyi
Regional Level Types
Colle di Val d'ElsaCommune
Siena ProvinceProvince
TuscanyRegion
ItalyCountry

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Largest Settlements:
PlacePopulation
Colle di Val d'Elsa16,625 (2016)
Campiglia929 (2014)
Quartaia487 (2014)
Borgatello274 (2014)
Selvamaggio262 (2014)
Castel San Gimignano149 (2014)
Mindat Locality ID:
458258
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:458258:1
GUID (UUID V4):
0
Other/historical names associated with this locality:
Colle Val d'Elsa
Other Languages:
French:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Province de Sienne, Toscane, Italie
German:
Colle di Val d’Elsa, Provinz Siena, Toskana, Italien
Italian:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Provincia di Siena, Toscana, Italia
Russian:
Колле-ди-Валь-д'Эльса, Провинция Сиена, Тоскана, Италия
Simplified Chinese:
埃尔萨谷口村, 錫耶納省, 托斯卡纳, 意大利
Spanish:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Provincia de Siena, Toscana, Italia
Arabic:
كولي دي فال ديلسا, مقاطعة سيينا, توسكانا, إيطاليا
Armenian:
Կոլե դի Վալ դ’Էլսա, Սիենա, Տոսկանա, Իտալիա
Azeri:
Kolle di Val d'Elsa, Siena əyaləti, Toskana, İtaliya
Basque:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Sienako probintzia, Toskana, Italia
Belarusian:
Коле-дзі-Валь-д'Эльса, правінцыя Сіена, Таскана, Італія
Breton:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Proviñs Siena, Toskana, Italia
Bulgarian:
Коле ди Вал д'Елса, Сиена, Тоскана, Италия
Catalan:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, província de Siena, Toscana, Itàlia
Cebuano:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Provincia di Siena, Toscana, Italya
Central Bikol:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Provincia nin Siena, Tuscany, Italya
Chechen:
Колле-ди-Валь-д’Эльса, Тоскана, Итали
Corsican:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Pruvincia di Siena, Tuscana, Italia
Danish:
Colle di Val d’Elsa, Province of Siena, Toscana, Italien
Dutch:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Siena, Toscane, Italië
Esperanto:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Provinco Sieno, Toskanio, Italio
Faroese:
Colle di Val d’Elsa, Italia
Farsi/Persian:
کوله دی وال دالسا, استان سیه‌نا, توسکانی, ایتالیا
Greek:
Κόλλε ντι Βαλ ντ'Έλσα, Σιένα, Τοσκάνη, Ιταλία
Greenlandic:
Colle di Val d’Elsa, Italia
Hungarian:
Colle di Val d’Elsa, Siena megye, Toszkána, Olaszország
Interlingua:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, provincia Siena, Toscana, Italia
Irish Gaelic:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, An Tuscáin, An Iodáil
Japanese:
コッレ・ディ・ヴァル・デルザ, シエーナ県, トスカーナ州, イタリア
Kazakh (Cyrillic Script):
Колле-ди-Валь-д'Эльса, Тоскана, Италия
Korean:
콜레디발델사, 시에나현, 토스카나주, 이탈리아
Kurdish (Latin Script):
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Toscana, Îtalya
Ladin:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Talia
Latin:
Collis, Provincia Senensis (Provincia Saenensis), Tuscia, Italia
Ligurian:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Toscann-a, Italia
Lithuanian:
Kole di Val d'Elsa, Sienos provincija, Toskana, Italija
Lombard:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Pruvincia de Siena, Toscana, Italia
Malay:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Wilayah Siena, Tuscany, Itali
Minnan / Hokkien-Taiwanese:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Siena Séng, Toscana, Italia
Neapolitan:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Toscana, Italia
Norwegian:
Colle di Val d’Elsa, Siena, Toscana, Italia
Norwegian (Nynorsk):
Colle di Val d’Elsa, Provinsen Siena, Toscana, Italia
Occitan:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Província de Siena, Toscana, Itàlia
Piedmontese:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Provincia ëd Sien-a, Toscan-a, Italia
Polish:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Prowincja Siena, Toskania, Włochy
Portuguese:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Siena, Toscana, Itália
Romanian:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Provincia Siena, Toscana, Italia
Scots:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Province o Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Serbian:
Коле ди Вал д'Елса, Сијена, Тоскана, Италија
Serbo-Croatian:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Siena, Toskana, Italija
Sicilian:
Colli di Val d'Elsa, Pruvincia di Siena, Tuscana, Italia
South Azerbaijani:
کوله دی وال دالسا, سیه‌نا اوستانی, توسکانی, ایتالیا
Swedish:
Colle di Val d’Elsa, Siena, Toscana, Italien
Tagalog:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Lalawigan ng Siena, Tuscany, Italya
Tarantino:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Provinge de Siena, Toscana, Itaglie
Tatar:
Колле-ди-Валь-д'Эльса, Тоскана, Италия
Turkish:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Siena ili, Toskana, İtalya
Ukrainian:
Колле-ді-Валь-д'Ельза, Сієна , Тоскана, Італія
Uzbek (Latin Script):
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Siena, Italiya
Venetian:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Provincia de Siena, Toscana, Itałia
Vietnamese:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Siena, Toscana, Ý
Volapük:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Litaliyän
Waray:
Colle di Val d'Elsa, Siena, Toscana, Italya


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Fossils

There are 1 fossil locality from the PaleoBioDB database within this region.

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Occurrences24
Youngest Fossil Listed2.59 Ma (Pleistocene)
Oldest Fossil Listed5.33 Ma (Miocene)
Fossils from RegionClick here to show the list.
Accepted NameHierarchy Age
Clavatula
genus
Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Clavatulidae : Clavatula5.333 - 2.588 Ma
Cenozoic
Comitas
genus
Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Pseudomelatomidae : Comitas5.333 - 2.588 Ma
Cenozoic
Crassispira
genus
Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Pseudomelatomidae : Crassispira5.333 - 2.588 Ma
Cenozoic
Crassopleura
genus
Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Drilliidae : Crassopleura5.333 - 2.588 Ma
Cenozoic
Turricula
genus
Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Clavatulidae : Turricula5.333 - 2.588 Ma
Cenozoic
Iredalea
genus
Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Drilliidae : Iredalea5.333 - 2.588 Ma
Cenozoic
Haedropleura
genus
Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Horaiclavidae : Haedropleura5.333 - 2.588 Ma
Cenozoic
Persististrombus coronatus
species
Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Strombidae : Persististrombus : Persististrombus coronatus5.333 - 2.588 Ma
Cenozoic
Tectonatica tectula
species
Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Naticidae : Tectonatica : Tectonatica tectula5.333 - 2.588 Ma
Cenozoic
Niveria dorsolaevigata
species
Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Triviidae : Niveria : Niveria dorsolaevigata5.333 - 2.588 Ma
Cenozoic
Payraudeautia intricata
species
Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Naticidae : Payraudeautia : Payraudeautia intricata5.333 - 2.588 Ma
Cenozoic
Crepidula gibbosa
species
Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Calyptraeidae : Crepidula : Crepidula gibbosa5.333 - 2.588 Ma
Cenozoic
Haedropleura septangularis
species
Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Horaiclavidae : Haedropleura : Haedropleura septangularis5.333 - 2.588 Ma
Cenozoic
Fossil LocalitiesClick to show 1 fossil locality

Other Databases

Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colle_di_Val_d%27Elsa
Wikidata ID:Q91192
GeoNames ID:6541102


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