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Liguria

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A region of northwest Italy on the Ligurian Sea, an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between northwest Italy and Corsica. Named for an ancient pre-Indo-European people, the Ligurii, the region was subdued by the Romans in the 2nd century BC and was later (16th–19th century) controlled by Genoa. A small section of the coastline surrounding Genoa formed the Ligurian Republic from 1797 until 1815.

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  • proper noun Region in the northwest of Italy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun region of northwestern Italy on the Ligurian Sea

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  1. italian region

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