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Definition of Campania

1. Noun. A region of southwestern Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea including the islands of Capri and Ischia.

Definition of Campania

1. n. Open country.

Definition of Campania

1. Proper noun. A region of southern Italy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Campania

Literary usage of Campania

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Campania, a territorial division of Italy. The modern district (II. below) is of much greater extent than that known by the name in ancient times. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Five years later (305) the Romans revenged a Samnite raid into Campania by an invasion of Samnium* itself. Arpinum on the frontier was taken, and at last, ..."

3. Ancient Italy: Historical and Geographical Investigations in Central Italy by Ettore Pais, Charles Densmore Curtis (1908)
"Caudium did not belong to Campania, but to the region of the ... beyond the mountains which surrounded Campania would seem to preclude its being considered ..."

4. A System of Ancient and Mediæval Geography for the Use of Schools and Colleges by Charles Anthon (1850)
"The Apennines divided Campania from Samnium, and the River ... I. IT is universally agreed that the first settlers in Campania, with whom history makes us ..."

5. A History of Rome by Robert Fowler Leighton (1878)
"Campania extended along the coast from the river Liris on the north to the ... the border« of Campania that Pompeji anil ..."

6. A smaller history of Rome, from the earliest times to the establishment of by William Smith (1882)
"They inhabited that part of the Apennines which lies between Campania and Lucania ... They became the masters of Campania and Lucania, and spread themselves ..."

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