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  • proper noun Province of Marche, Italy.
  • proper noun Town and capital of Ascoli Piceno.

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Examples

  • Because the land the Piceni inhabited was on the sea, they had contact with Greeks, Phoenicians and Etruscans, who took hold of things for a while, but were kicked out in 509 B.C. The Romans, who built highways across the country, exerted heavy influence in the region, and built the province's capital, the city of Ascoli Piceno, into an urban center.

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  • Today, Ascoli Piceno still has a Roman layout, with a main square paved in travertine marble, and a population of about 60,000.

    Tutti Beauty 2006

  • Marche is divided into a number of provinces, including Urbino and Ascoli Piceno, the latter named for early Italians known as Piceni.

    Tutti Beauty 2006

  • There is no hope, he said of finding the girls alive, speaking to The Associated Press from his home in Ascoli Piceno, near Italy's central Adriatic coast.

    Thestar.com - Home Page John Heilprin 2011

  • Renaissance Piazza del Popolo in Ascoli Piceno: It is a large square with the palazzo dei Capitani, the Loggia dei Mercanti to the north, the church of San Francesco, the Palace with the ancient Caffè Meletti, and a colonnade all around.

    Latest News from Web 2.0 Journal 2010

  • I met Mehmet Ali Ağca for the first time in 1988 in a tiny prison cell of the Ascoli Piceno prison in Italy.

    Hurriyet Dailynews 2010

  • I met Mehmet Ali Ağca for the first time in 1988 in a tiny prison cell of the Ascoli Piceno prison in Italy.

    Hurriyet Dailynews 2010

  • Abdellah Labdidi, the imam of the Er Rahma mosque in Fermo, in the province of Ascoli Piceno:

    Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami 2009

  • That's what happened in the provinces of Macerata, Ascoli Piceno and Ancona.

    Marginal Revolution 2009

  • That's what happened in the provinces of Macerata, Ascoli Piceno and Ancona.

    Marginal Revolution 2009

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