found: GEOnet, Mar. 1, 2006(Valtellina: VAL; 46⁰11ʹN 009⁰55ʹE; variant, La Valtellina)
found: Col. gaz. online, Mar. 1, 2006(Valtellina: valley, Italy, Lombardy)
found: Col. encyc. 6th ed. online, Mar. 1, 2006(Valtellina: Alpine valley of the upper Adda River, c. 75 miles long, in Lombardy, extending from Lake Como to the Stelvio Pass; in 1512, Valtellina was seized from Milan by the Grisons [Graubünden, Switzerland], which ruled the territory (with periodic interruptions by other European powers during the Thirty Years War) until 1797 when it was incorporated into the Cisalpine Republic; in 1815 Valtellina was passed to the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom (held by Austria) and then to Italy in 1859)
found: Old catalog hdg.(Valtellina)
