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Alessandria

American  
[ah-les-sahn-dree-ah] / ˌɑ lɛsˈsɑn dri ɑ /

noun

  1. a city in NW Italy, in Piedmont.


Alessandria British  
/ alesˈsandrja /

noun

  1. a town in NW Italy, in Piedmont. Pop: 85 438 (2001)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The choir, from the northern Italian province of Alessandria, is led by two doctors, biologist Stefania Crivellari and onocologist Federica Grosso.

From Reuters Jun. 8, 2022

The Alessandria area has had a higher-than normal rate of mesothelioma, a type of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos in the past from a now-closed factory in the town of Casale Monferrato.

From Reuters Jun. 8, 2022

Umberto Eco was born Jan. 5, 1932, in Alessandria, a small city in northwestern Italy.

From Washington Post Feb. 20, 2016

Audisio's career began in the dirty northern industrial town of Alessandria, where he grew up in a squalor he swore to escape.

From Time Magazine Archive

Let the citadels of Milan, Tortona, Alessandria, and Pavia be provisioned....

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall

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