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Pozzuoli

[ pot-swoh-lee; Italian pawt-tswaw-lee ]

noun

  1. a seaport in SW Italy, near Naples: Roman ruins.


Pozzuoli

/ potˈtswɔːli /

noun

  1. a port in SW Italy, in Campania on the Gulf of Pozzuoli (an inlet of the Bay of Naples): in a region of great volcanic activity; founded in the 6th century bc by the Greeks. Pop: 78 754 (2001)


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Beyond picturesque Pozzuoli, jutting out with precipitous piles of building into the sea, lies Bai.

He was afterwards decapitated and his body deposited at Pozzuoli, and then removed to this church.

Then he "rushes" down to the boat and bids them row to Pozzuoli, where he arrives (and no wonder) long after sunset.

Now Pozzuoli, which fronts on the bay, seven miles west of Naples.

Coming nearer home, he shows that in 1538 the whole coast of Pozzuoli, near Naples, was raised twenty feet in a single night.

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