Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northeast Italy near the Austrian border. Originally part of the Austrian Tyrol, it passed to Italy by treaty in 1919.
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- proper noun Province of
Trentino-Alto Adige ,Italy . - proper noun Town and capital of Bolzano.
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- noun an Italian city in Trentino-Alto Adige near the Austrian border; noted as a resort and for its Alpine scenery
Etymologies
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This is the fourth work by Hungarian Sandor Marai (190089) to be translated into English since Embers (2001), The Rebels (2004) and Casanova in Bolzano (2007).
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Born September 25, 1899, Bozen (then in Austria, now called Bolzano in Italy).
England Under Hitler Clarke, Comer 1961
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On a trip back to Rome one evening last month from Bolzano near the Austrian border, I booked my night-train ticket and had just enough time to set off through porticoed streets to eat roast duck, apple sauce and red cabbage at a trattoria, surrounded by German-speaking Italians laughing and knocking back tall glasses of beer.
Last train to Sicily 2012
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May 26 — Stage 18: Bolzano to San Pellegrino — 240km
Inside Cycling with John Wilcockson: Back to the strada bianche at 2011 Giro 2010
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All of the Italian lugers this time round are from the Alpen north (Bolzano-Bozen/South Tyrol) and actually speak a variant of Austro-Bavarian German. alkali says:
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Arriving back at the wood-panelled station after navigating Bolzano's empty, freezing-cold piazzas, I waited in the platform bar with a group of labourers who were keeping warm and watching TV before the night train to Naples pulled in punctually at 9.30pm.
Last train to Sicily 2012
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Gertrude had been giving piano lessons to the two daughters of an Italian army general in Bolzano.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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Before leaving, she took a train to Bolzano to visit her sister, Gertrude—who was dying of cancer.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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Finally, early in July the Italian Ministry of the Interior ordered the transfer of all Ferramonti internees to the province of Bolzano, in German-controlled Italy.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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Marco Biasoni, an Alpine rescuer based in the predominantly German-speaking Bolzano area, said another problem was that many mushroom-pickers did not have the correct dress and equipment.
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