Cinque
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 quinque, Cinque carries the meaning of "five" in Italian
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Cinque may refer to:

In places:
  • Cinque Ports
    Cinque Ports
    The Confederation of Cinque Ports is a historic series of coastal towns in Kent and Sussex. It was originally formed for military and trade purposes, but is now entirely ceremonial. It lies at the eastern end of the English Channel, where the crossing to the continent is narrowest...

    , five English ports making up the Confederation of the Cinque Ports
  • Cinque Terre
    Cinque Terre
    The Cinque Terre is a rugged portion of coast on the Italian Riviera. It is in the Liguria region of Italy, to the west of the city of La Spezia. "The Five Lands" is composed of five villages: Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore...

    , five coastal villages in the province of La Spezia in Italy
  • Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club
    Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club
    Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club is in the town of Deal in the County of Kent in Southern England . It was founded in 1892. The name derives from Deal's membership of an ancient group of trading towns granted special privileges by the medieval English monarchs, known as the Cinque Ports...

    , founded in 1892, is in the town of Deal, Kent in Southern England
  • Cinque Island, an island in the Andaman archipelago
    Andaman Islands
    The Andaman Islands are a group of Indian Ocean archipelagic islands in the Bay of Bengal between India to the west, and Burma , to the north and east...

    , India


In people:
  • Joseph Cinqué
    Joseph Cinqué
    Sengbe Pieh , later known as Joseph Cinqué, was a West African man of the Mende people and was the most prominent defendant in the Amistad case, in which it was found that he and 51 others had been victims of the illegal Atlantic slave trade.-Biography:Cinqué was born c...

    , the name given by the Spanish to Sengbe Pieh, leader of the La Amistad slave revolt
  • Cinque Mtume, the name adopted by Donald DeFreeze, the leader of the Symbionese Liberation Army
  • Joe Cinque, an Australian murder victim
    • Joe Cinque's Consolation
      Joe Cinque's Consolation
      Joe Cinque’s Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law is a non-fiction book written by Australian author Helen Garner, and published in 2004...

      , a book about the murder of Joe Cinque
  • Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
    Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
    The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports is a ceremonial official in the United Kingdom. The post dates from at least the 12th century but may be older. The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports was originally in charge of the Cinque Ports, a group of five port towns on the southeast coast of England...

    , a ceremonial official in the United Kingdom
  • Cinque, a character in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers
    Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers
    is the third season of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series. The Nanoha anime was, in turn, a spin-off of the Triangle Heart series of games and OVAs, specifically Triangle Heart 3: Sweet Songs Forever...



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In other uses:
  • 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:...

    , a term used to describe the Renaissance in literature and art in the sixteenth century
  • Fiat Cinquecento
    Fiat Cinquecento
    The Fiat Cinquecento was a city car designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro launched by Fiat in late 1991 to replace the Fiat 126. It was the first Fiat model to be solely manufactured in the FSM plant in Tychy, Poland, which had been sold to Fiat by the Polish state, and where production of the Polish...

    , a model of car
  • Pagani Zonda Cinque, a variant of the Pagani Zonda automobile
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