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Aosta

British  
/ aˈɔsta /

noun

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

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South of Zermatt, power outages were reported in 37 of the 74 municipalities in the Aosta Valley in north-west Italy, and a bridge collapsed in Biella in nearby Piedmont.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025

“This is particularly true of inner-Alpine dry valleys such as the Aosta Valley in northwestern Italy, already affected by significant water stress.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2022

For decades, the disgruntled branch of the family, called the Aosta, has argued that the Carignano Savoia are sullying the good family name.

From New York Times • May 9, 2021

Stylistically, his work was an idiosyncratic mix of baroque, art nouveau, futurism, modernism, biomorphism, surrealism and the vernacular architecture of the remote Aosta Valley in the Alps north of Turin.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2011

Over on the right they had the Duke of Aosta.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway