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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region of southeast Italy bordering on the Adriatic Sea, Strait of Otranto, and Gulf of Taranto. Its southern portion forms the heel of the Italian “boot.”
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- proper noun A region of southern
Italy .
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- noun a region in southeastern Italy on the Adriatic
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Puglia - in Italian, Apulia - offers neither the drama of Tuscany's hilltop towns nor the fame wrought by Frances Mayes 'artful storytelling.
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Puglia - in Italian, Apulia - offers neither the drama of Tuscany's hilltop towns nor the fame wrought by Frances Mayes 'artful storytelling.
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The male line of Robert Guiscard was extinguished, both in Apulia and at Antioch, in the second generation; but his younger brother became the father of a line of kings; and the son of the great count was endowed with the name, the conquests, and the spirit, of the first Roger.
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The Normans; or rather the private adventurers of that warlike people, who founded a powerful kingdom in Apulia and Sicily, shook the throne of Constantinople, displayed the trophies of chivalry, and almost realized the wonders of romance.
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The revolution of human affairs had produced in Apulia and
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Garganus in Apulia, which had been sanctified by the apparition of the archangel Michael, 18 they were accosted by a stranger in the Greek habit, but who soon revealed himself as a rebel, a fugitive, and a mortal foe of the
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a colony of Saracens whom his father had planted in Apulia; and this odious succor will explain the defiance of the Catholic hero, who rejected all terms of accommodation.
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Venusia, in Apulia, who exercised the humble office of coactor exauctionum, (collector of payments at auctions.) (Sat.i. vi.
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The sons of Tancred fought in Apulia, before William II. was three years old, (A.D.
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Apulia, which is the land of Pul [32], where about 200 Jews reside, at their head being R. Achimaaz, R. Nathan, and R. Isaac.
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela
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