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Definition of Liguria

1. Noun. Region of northwestern Italy on the Ligurian Sea.

Definition of Liguria

1. Proper noun. Region in the northwest of Italy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Liguria

Literary usage of Liguria

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

1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Liguria embraces the two provinces of Genoa and Porto Maurizio ... In educational and general development, Liguria stands high among the regions of Italy. ..."

2. Art in Northern Italy by Corrado Ricci (1911)
"He who believes Liguria to be devoted to gain and contemptuous of the arts does her injustice. True, she has preferred not to be herself a producer ; but, ..."

3. Dark Days in Chile: An Account of the Revolution of 1891 by Maurice H. Hervey (1892)
"How I missed the Liguria—A Hot Ten Minutes—A Friend in Need—Travelling made Easy—A Meeting—Concepcion— Coronel—I catch the Liguria—The Old Story—Magellan ..."

4. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1895)
"The progress of the Lombard invaders was steady Liguria and rapid. In 569 Alboin overran the province of Liguria. Milan, so long the residence of the ..."

5. Dark Days in Chile: An Account of the Revolution of 1891 by Maurice H. Hervey (1892)
"How I missed the Liguria—A Hot Ten Minutes—A Friend in Need—Travelling made ... Scarcely, however, had the boat left the pier, when the Liguria fired a gun ..."

6. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries by Adolf von Harnack (1908)
"have no trustworthy account of any Christians in Piedmont and Liguria.1 The sole exception is Genoa, and even that is doubtful. ..."

7. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"Liguria, in ancient geography, a district of northern Italy, which according to the divisions of Augustus was bounded N. by the Padus (Po), E. by the Macra ..."

8. The Classical Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Ancient Geography, Sacred and Profane by William Hazlitt (1851)
"... and other invaders from Gaul (whence the name), jf CISPADANA, the portion of Gallia Cisalpina, s. of Padus fl., separated from Liguria by a fe then by ..."

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