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Ragusa

[ rah-goo-zah ]

noun

  1. a province in SE Italy.
  2. a city in and the capital of this province.
  3. a city in SE Sicily.
  4. Italian name of Dubrovnik.


Ragusa

/ raˈɡuːza /

noun

  1. an industrial town in SE Sicily. Pop: 68 956 (2001)
  2. the Italian name (until 1918) for Dubrovnik
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Ragusea, a ship belonging to Ragusa, a great medieval port on the Adriatic, spelt in 16th-cent.

Ragusa and Smyrna, at the same time, were also almost destroyed.

He was then directed to take possession of Dalmatia with his army, and occupied Ragusa.

In the 14th century the commerce of Cattaro rivalled that of Ragusa, and provoked the jealousy of Venice.

As we leave again, and round the peninsula of Lapad, glorious in a mass of semi-tropical vegetation, Ragusa bursts upon our view.

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