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pu⋅la

[poo-lah]
–noun
a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Botswana, equal to 100 thebe: replaced the rand in 1976.

Pu⋅la

[poo-lah]
–noun
a seaport in W Croatia, on the Istrian Peninsula. 77,057.
Also, Pulj.
Italian, Pola.
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pu·la   (pōō'lä)   
n.  See Table at currency.

[Tswana, rain (used as greeting for good fortune).]
Pu·la   (pōō'lə, -lä)   
A city of northwest Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. Captured by Rome in 178 B.C., it was a major naval station of the Hapsburg empire and passed to Italy in 1919 and to Yugoslavia in 1947. Population: 58,500.
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Pula

major port and industrial centre and seat of the kotar regional administration in Croatia, at the southern tip of the Istria Peninsula at the head of the Bay of Pula. It is linked to Trieste and Ljubljana by road and rail. Pula has a large, almost landlocked harbour in which there is a naval base and the Uljanik shipyards.

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