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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northwest Sardinia, Italy, north-northwest of Cagliari. It was an important trading center in the Middle Ages, when it was held successively by Pisa, Genoa, and Aragon.
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- proper noun A town, and associated province in
Sardinia ,Italy .
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Examples
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During a guest performance in Sassari, Fo is arrested for having blocked access to the theatre for policemen seeking to stop the performance.
Dario Fo - Biography 1998
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This was the case in Sassari, where I found a pensione with students studying at the university.
A. Colin Wright: Sardinia: Then and Now A. Colin Wright 2011
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I had gone from my native England to the northern city of Sassari to teach English, and Sardinia was special, exotic even.
A. Colin Wright: Sardinia: Then and Now A. Colin Wright 2011
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Sassari and Cagliari are large, modern cities albeit still with their old towns, while Orgosolo is a rather ordinary village, known more for its painted murals than its previous atmosphere of fear and suspicion.
A. Colin Wright: Sardinia: Then and Now A. Colin Wright 2011
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A native of Sassari in Sardinia and 11 years younger than her husband, she married while she was still a junior lecturer at Pavia University.
August « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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The major entertainment of the day, as elsewhere in Italy, was once the passegiata, when men and women -- chaperoned, of course, or with friends -- would parade up and down before dinner on Sassari's central square, the Piazza d'Italia.
A. Colin Wright: Sardinia: Then and Now A. Colin Wright 2011
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A native of Sassari in Sardinia and 11 years younger than her husband, she married while she was still a junior lecturer at Pavia University.
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Incidence of multiple sclerosis in the town of Sassari, Sardinia, 1965 to 1985: Evidence for increasing occurrence of the disease.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Incidence of multiple sclerosis in the town of Sassari, Sardinia, 1965 to 1985: Evidence for increasing occurrence of the disease.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Mozzarella suspected of being contaminated has been found in Bologna, in Sardinia, including in Sassari and on the tiny Sardinian island of Isola della Maddalena, and in Bologna, Guariniello said.
Blue Mozzarella UPDATE: Bacteria Caused Color-Change, Italy Says 2010
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