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Foggia

[ fawd-jah ]

noun

  1. a city in SE Italy.


Foggia

/ ˈfɔddʒa /

noun

  1. a city in SE Italy, in Apulia: seat of Emperor Frederick II; centre for Carbonari revolutionary societies in the revolts of 1820, 1848, and 1860. Pop: 155 203 (2001)


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This morning they made an attack on an Englishman going to visit your Lordship at Foggia, and carrying rich jewels.

At Foggia we have not even the amount of hill which we have at Benevento.

He was much patronized by the Emperor Frederic, for whom he built the palace at Foggia, and made a tomb.

One arch of his palace still remains, with an inscription telling us how under him Foggia became a royal and Imperial seat.

Of Foggia itself many perhaps have never heard except as a railway junction.

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