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Pe·ru·gia       [pe-roo-jah; Eng. puh-roo-juh, -jee-uh] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a city in central Umbria, in central Italy. 136,933.
2.Lake of. Trasimeno.
Pe·ru·gian       [puh-roo-juhn, -jee-uhn] Pronunciation Key, adjective, noun
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Pe·ru·gia       (pə-rōō'jə, -jē-ə, pě-rōō'jä)  Pronunciation Key 
A city of central Italy on a hill overlooking the Tiber River north of Rome. An important Etruscan settlement, it fell to the Romans c. 310 B.C. and became a Lombard duchy in A.D. 592 and a free city in the 12th century. Perugia was later the artistic center of Umbria and is today a commercial, industrial, and tourist center. Population: 161,000.

Pe·ru'gian adj. & n.
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