Editing Coast (section)

===Rivieras===
[[File:Cinque Terre (Italy, October 2020) - 11 (50543748322).jpg|thumb|The [[Cinque Terre]], along the [[Italian Riviera]]]]

''Riviera'' is an Italian word for "shoreline",<ref name="Chambers">{{Cite encyclopedia|title=riviera |encyclopedia=Chambers Concise Dictionary |year=2004 |publisher=Allied Chambers |location=New Delhi |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=iwWuY9tAVq8C&pg=PA1045 1045] |isbn = 978-81-86062-36-4}}</ref><ref name="Kolb">{{Cite book|first=Martina |last=Kolb |year=2013 |title=Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria |location=Toronto, Ontario |publisher=University of Toronto Press |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=I03va9L2GuoC&pg=PA30 30] |isbn=978-1-4426-4329-1 }}</ref><ref>The more common ones are ''puntellare'' and ''litorale''.</ref> ultimately derived from Latin {{Lang|la|ripa}} ("riverbank"). It came to be applied as a proper name to the coast of the [[Ligurian Sea]], in the form ''riviera ligure'', then shortened to ''riviera''.  Historically, the Ligurian Riviera extended from Capo Corvo (Punta Bianca) south of [[Genoa]], north and west into what is now [[France|French]] territory past [[Monaco]] and sometimes as far as [[Marseille]].<ref name="Chambers" /><ref>{{Cite book |first=Rosa |last=Baughan |year=1880 |title=Winter havens in the sunny South, a complete handbook to the Riviera |location=London |publisher=The Bazaar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zg8IAAAAQAAJ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202104650/https://books.google.com/books?id=zg8IAAAAQAAJ |archive-date=2017-02-02 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |first=Charles B. |last=Black |year=1887 |title=The Riviera, Or The Coast from Marseilles to Leghorn, Including Carrara, Lucca, Pisa, Pistoja and Florence |edition=Third |location=Edinburgh |publisher=Adam and Charles Black |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KKsaAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202213756/https://books.google.com/books?id=KKsaAAAAYAAJ |archive-date=2017-02-02 }}</ref> Today, this coast is divided into the [[Italian Riviera]] and the [[French Riviera]], although the French use the term "Riviera" to refer to the Italian Riviera and call the French portion the "Côte d'Azur".<ref name="Kolb" />

As a result of the fame of the Ligurian rivieras, the term came into English to refer to any shoreline, especially one that is sunny, topographically diverse and popular with tourists.<ref name="Chambers" /> Such places using the term include the [[Australian Riviera]] in [[Queensland]] and the [[Turkish Riviera]] along the [[Aegean Sea]].<ref name="Kolb" />