Pozzuoli
a seaport in SW Italy, near Naples: Roman ruins.
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How to use Pozzuoli in a sentence
Beyond picturesque Pozzuoli, jutting out with precipitous piles of building into the sea, lies Bai.
George Eliot's Life, Vol. II (of 3) | George EliotHe was afterwards decapitated and his body deposited at Pozzuoli, and then removed to this church.
Curiosities of Christian History | Croake JamesThen he "rushes" down to the boat and bids them row to Pozzuoli, where he arrives (and no wonder) long after sunset.
Alone | Norman DouglasNow Pozzuoli, which fronts on the bay, seven miles west of Naples.
Coming nearer home, he shows that in 1538 the whole coast of Pozzuoli, near Naples, was raised twenty feet in a single night.
The World Before the Deluge | Louis Figuier
British Dictionary definitions for Pozzuoli
/ (Italian potˈtswɔːli) /
a port in SW Italy, in Campania on the Gulf of Pozzuoli (an inlet of the Bay of Naples): in a region of great volcanic activity; founded in the 6th century bc by the Greeks. Pop: 78 754 (2001)
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