Cento (disambiguation)
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Cento can refer to:
  • The Italian
    Italian language
    Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

     word for "hundred", which is used in compound words as a designation for centuries in Italian culture:
    • Trecento
      Trecento
      The Trecento refers to the 14th century in Italian cultural history.Commonly the Trecento is considered to be the beginning of the Renaissance in art history...

       (1300s) [in English, the 14th century]
    • Quattrocento
      Quattrocento
      The cultural and artistic events of 15th century Italy are collectively referred to as the Quattrocento...

       (1400s) [15th century]
    • Cinquecento
      Cinquecento
      Cinquecento is a term used to describe the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century, including the current styles of art, music, literature, and architecture.-Art:...

       (1500s) [16th century]
    • Seicento
      Seicento
      This article talks about culture and history in 17th century Italy. For more specific information regarding the Baroque artistic and social period in Italy, please see Italian Baroque. For an article regarding Italian history from the 16th to the mid-19th century, see Early Modern Italy...

       (1600s) [17th century]
    • Settecento (1700s) [18th century]

  • Metodija Andonov-Čento
    Metodija Andonov-Cento
    Metodija Andonov-Čento was a Macedonian statesman, the first president of the Anti-Fascist Assembly of the National Liberation of Macedonia and of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia after the Second World War.-Early life:Metodi Andonov was born in...

    , a World War II Macedonian partisan and politician
  • Cento (poetry)
    Cento (poetry)
    A cento is a poetical work wholly composed of verses or passages taken from other authors; only disposed in a new form or order.- History :The term comes from the Latin cento, a cloak made of patches; and that from the Greek κέντρων. The Roman soldiers used these centones, or old stuffs patched...

    , a poetic technique of assembling a poem from excerpts of other authors' writings
  • Centonization
    Centonization
    In music centonization is a theory about the composition of a melody, melodies, or piece based on pre-existing melodic figures and formulas...

    , a similar musical technique
  • Cento
    Cento
    Cento is a city and comune in the province of Ferrara, part of the region Emilia-Romagna . In Italian "cento" means 100.-History:The name Cento is a reference to the centuriation of the Po Valley...

    , Italy
  • Dobels Cento
    Dobels Cento
    Dobels Cento was a horse who competed in International Grand Prix show jumping competitions.* Color: Grey* Height: 16.3½ hh * Sex: Stallion* Breed: Holsteiner...

    , the Olympic medalist horse
  • CENTO
    Cento
    Cento is a city and comune in the province of Ferrara, part of the region Emilia-Romagna . In Italian "cento" means 100.-History:The name Cento is a reference to the centuriation of the Po Valley...

    , the Central Treaty Organization
  • Cento Fine Foods
    Cento Fine Foods
    Cento Fine Foods is a company that distributes its own brand of Italian food products, including canned tomatoes , pasta, olive oil, rice, pastries, and confections. The company was founded in 1963, and is headquartered in Thorofare, New Jersey. Cento Fine Foods, Inc...

    , a brand of Italian food products sold in the U.S.
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