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Landscapes of Tuscany Tuscany is an Italian region with an ordinary statute of 3.743.370 inhabitants, located in Central Italy, with the capital of Florence. The name is very ancient and derives from the ethnonym used by the Latins to define the land inhabited by the Etruscans: "Etruria", then turned into "Tuscia" and then into "Tuscany". Even the borders of today's Tuscany correspond in principle to those of ancient Etruria, which also included parts of the current regions of Lazio and Umbria, up to the Tiber. Until 1861 it was an independent entity, known as the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Since then it has been part of the Kingdom of Sardinia, of the Kingdom of Italy and today of the Italian Republic. Both in the north and east, Tuscany is surrounded by the Apennines but the territory is mainly hilly. The highest peak in the region is Mount Prado (2,054 m), in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines in Garfagnana, on the border with Emilia-Romagna. In the region there are other noteworthy mountain ranges outside the Apennine ridge: the Apuan Alps to the northwest, Mount Pisano between Pisa and Lucca, the Pistoia mountains to the north of Pistoia, the Monti della Calvana to the north of Prato, the Chianti Mountains between the provinces of Siena and Arezzo. In the province of Arezzo the Pratomagno divides the Casentino from the Valdarno, always in the province of Arezzo to the north-east the Alpe di Catenaia is divided by the Apennines from the course of the Tiber, the Alpe delle Luna south of the province of Arezzo, the Hills Metallifere to the south-west between the provinces of Livorno, Pisa, Siena and Grosseto and the massifs of Monte Amiata and Monte Cetona to the south-east, Mount Falterona, where the Arno river rises and the Fumaiolo mountain where the Tiber rises. Among the hilly systems, in the central part of the region we find, from west to east, the Livorno hills, the Pisan hills, the Balze di Volterra, the Montalbano, the Chianti hills and the hills of the Valtiberina. The southern area of ​​the region is characterized to the west by the Metalliferous Hills, the hills of the Val di Merse, the Crete Senesi, the hills of the Valle dell'Ombrone, the hills of the Albegna and Fiora, the Area del Tufo and hills of the Val d'Orcia and Val di Chiana.