Aosta

/ aˈɔsta /

noun

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

On May 21st he is at Aosta, hoping to be back in Paris within a fortnight.

Aosta was an important place in the Roman period and has to-day a population of about 8000.

But the parts to the north of that river were conquered later, the Salassi of the valley of Aosta in the reign of Augustus.

He has in him, as a certain Spanish republican said of the Duke of Aosta, the least quantity possible in a king.

The army now pressed forward, with great alacrity, along the banks of the Aosta.

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