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Definition of Lusitania

1. Noun. Ancient region and Roman province on the Iberian Peninsula; corresponds roughly to modern Portugal and parts of Spain.

Definition of Lusitania

1. Proper noun. ancient Roman province, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal ¹

2. Proper noun. (archaic poetic) Portugal ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Lusitania

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

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"Outlook 110:103-17 My 19 '15 Lusitania torpedoed. il Lit Digest 50:1133-4 ... Lit Digest 50:1232 My 32 '15 Torpedoes, the Lusitania. and naval architecture. ..."

2. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1919)
"and the record was further obscured by the false charges made by the Germans that the Lusitania had carried ammunition and had sunk as a consequence of the ..."

3. My Three Years in America by Johann Heinrich Bernstorff (1920)
"CHAPTER THE SECOND "Lusitania" CRISIS ITS Germany, and particularly before the Committee of the National Assembly, the American Government has been ..."

4. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"The verdict, rendered here today by the coroner's jury, which investigated five deaths resulting from the torpedoing of the Lusitania, is as follows: We ..."

5. America at War: A Handbook of Patriotic Education References by Albert Bushnell Hart, National Security League (1918)
"Eliot, CW "Germany and the Lusitania," in NY Times Current History, II, 452-454 (June, 1915. ... (c) Was the Lusitania armed? (d) Had she carried troops? ..."

6. International Law and the World War by James Wilford Garner (1920)
"The Sinking of the Lusitania. The attention of the world was first drawn to the shocking inhumanity of the German methods of submarine warfare by the ..."

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