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A⋅qui⋅le⋅ia

  [ah-kwee-le-yah]
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an ancient Roman city at the northern end of the Adriatic: founded in 181 b.c.; destroyed by Attila in a.d. 452.
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A·qui·le·ia   (ä'kwə-lā'ə, ä'kwē-lě'yä)   
A town of northeast Italy near the Adriatic Sea. Founded by the Romans as a military outpost in 181 B.C., it was frequently destroyed by invaders, including Attila (A.D. 452).
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Aquileia

formerly a city of the Roman Empire and a patriarchate of the Roman Catholic Church; it is now a village in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeastern Italy, on the Natisone River near the Adriatic coast, northwest of Trieste

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