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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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