Aosta

/ (Italian aˈɔsta) /

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noun

a town in NW Italy, capital of Valle d'Aosta region: Roman remains. Pop: 34 062 (2001)

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How to use Aosta in a sentence

On May 21st he is at Aosta, hoping to be back in Paris within a fortnight.
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine|Henry Foljambe Hall
Aosta was an important place in the Roman period and has to-day a population of about 8000.
Influences of Geographic Environment|Ellen Churchill Semple
But the parts to the north of that river were conquered later, the Salassi of the valley of Aosta in the reign of Augustus.
The Ethnology of Europe|Robert Gordon Latham
He has in him, as a certain Spanish republican said of the Duke of Aosta, the least quantity possible in a king.
Holland, v. 1 (of 2)|Edmondo de Amicis

The army now pressed forward, with great alacrity, along the banks of the Aosta.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXV, June, 1852|Various