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Pe⋅ru⋅gia

[pe-roo-jah; Eng. puh-roo-juh, -jee-uh]
–noun
1. a city in central Umbria, in central Italy. 136,933.
2. Lake of. Trasimeno.

Pe⋅ru⋅gian [puh-roo-juhn, -jee-uhn] , adjective, noun
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Pe·ru·gia   (pə-rōō'jə, -jē-ə, pě-rōō'jä)   
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: 162,000.
Pe·ru'gian adj. & n.
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