Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of central Italy on a hill overlooking the Tiber River north of Rome. An important Etruscan settlement, it fell to the Romans c. 310 BC and became a Lombard duchy in AD 592 and a free city in the 12th century. Perugia was later the artistic center of Umbria and is today a commercial, industrial, and tourist center.
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- proper noun Province of
Umbria ,Italy . - proper noun A city, the capital of Perugia.
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Examples
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Knox, the U.S. college student convicted of killing her British roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy in 2007, had accused eight officers of beating her during the murder investigation, Reuters reports.
Amanda Knox Back In Court On Slander Charges As Hollywood Preps Films The Huffington Post 2010
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Francesco Paolocci and Andrea Rubini discovered the two-sex nature of the mushrooms during research at the Plant Genetics Institute in Perugia, Italy, the Telegraph reports.
Black truffle sex secrets revealed! Epicureans rejoice. Melissa Bell 2010
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Knox, the U.S. college student convicted of killing her British roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy in 2007, had accused eight officers of beating her during the murder investigation, Reuters reports.
Amanda Knox Back In Court On Slander Charges As Hollywood Preps Films The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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On April 29, a three-judge panel in Perugia surprised everyone by annulling his imprisonment and setting him free.
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On April 29, a three-judge panel in Perugia surprised everyone by annulling his imprisonment and setting him free.
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Citizen Media at International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy
Global Voices in English » Japan: Reactions to the Japanese tourist rip-off in Italy 2009
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Luisa Spagnoli, who founded the label in Perugia in 1928, was famous for introducing angora fibre - derived from Angora rabbits - into knitwear.
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So, I know how he thinks and I know what exactly went on, because I was in Italy, and I was in Perugia, which is a very small town with a big drug problem.
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Very early on, it had been decided that she was leading a life that Perugia, which is where she was convicted and where she used to live, wasn't fond of, that she was smoking deep, that she was sleeping with her boyfriend.
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He was driven to GIDES headquarters and taken from there to prison in Perugia.
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