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 station
  • 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)