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Definition of Turin

1. Noun. Capital city of the Piemonte region of northwestern Italy.

Definition of Turin

1. Proper noun. Province of Piedmont, Italy. ¹

2. Proper noun. Capital city of the province of Turin. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Turin

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)
"Still more memorable is the siege of Turin in 1706, again at the hands of the ... Under Gianfrancesco della Rovere (1510), Turin was detached from the ..."

2. Journal of Theological Studies (1902)
"CYPRIAN, II: THE Turin AND MILAN FRAGMENTS. IN the January number of the JOURNAL (iii 282-285) ... (i) Turin Gv 37. This fragment consists of thirty leaves, ..."

3. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1862)
"The troops of Maxentius fled in confusion towards Turin; and as the gates ... By this important service Turin deserved to experience the clemency and even ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1880)
"The troops of Maxentius fled in confusion towards Turin; and, ... By this important service Turin deserved to experience the clemency and even favor of the ..."

5. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1911)
"By AIEE THE INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL CONGRESS OF Turin* HISTORICAL OUTLINE Information was laid before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers ..."

6. Art in Northern Italy by Corrado Ricci (1911)
"R. d'Azeglio, La R. Galleria di Torino illustrata, Turin, 1836-1846; E. Jacobsen, La R. Pinacoteca di Torino in Archivio Storico dell'A rte, 1897 ; A. Baudi ..."

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