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Definition of Ravenna

1. Noun. A battle between the French and an alliance of Spaniards and Swiss and Venetians in 1512.

Definition of Ravenna

1. Proper noun. Province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. ¹

2. Proper noun. Capital of the province of Ravenna. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Ravenna

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"When, by order of Leo the Isaurian the Exarch Paulus wished to destroy the sacred images about the year 727, Ravenna revolted, and in the fighting that ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"When, by order of Leo the Isaurian the Exarch Paulus wished to destroy the sacred images about the year 727, Ravenna revolted, and in the fighting that ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Ravenna is to-day substantially as it was at the beginning of the Byzantine ... At the close of the war, Ravenna became the seat of the Byzantine governor, ..."

4. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"540 OSIMO being taken, Belisarius collected all his energies for the siege of Ravenna. Ravenna, defended Ravenna. % a power having command of the sea, ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"The adjacent country, to the distance of many miles, was a deep and impassable morass ; and the artificial causeway, which connected Ravenna wilh the ..."

6. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1899)
"BOOK I. For the early history of Ravenna, which forms one of the CH. ... The topography of Ravenna, owing to the changes in the course of the rivers ..."

7. Selections from Strabo: With an Introduction on Strabo's Life and Works by Strabo, Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1893)
"This is especially apparent in his account of Ravenna, in which no mention is made of the great works which Augustus executed there —the port of Classis ..."

8. Art in Northern Italy by Corrado Ricci (1911)
"Beissel, Die Mosaiken von Ravenna, Freiburg, 1894 ; GC Redin, Mosaics of the Churches of Ravenna, St. Petersburg, 1896 (in Russian); X. Barbier de ..."

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