Calabria

[ kuh-ley-bree-uh; Italian kah-lah-bryah ]

noun

1. a region in southern Italy. 2,048,901. 5,828 sq. mi. (15,100 sq. km). : Reggio Calabria.
2. an ancient district at the extreme southeastern part of the Italian peninsula.

Calabria

/ kəˈlæbrɪə /

noun

1. a region of SW Italy: mostly mountainous and subject to earthquakes. Chief town: Reggio di Calabria. Pop: 2 007 392 (2003 est). Area: 15 080 sq km (5822 sq miles)
2. an ancient region of extreme SE Italy (3rd century bc to about 668 ad ); now part of Apulia

Other Words From

• Ca·labri·an noun adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Calabria¹

First recorded in 1600–20; from Latin, from Greek Kalabría

Example Sentences

On a warm evening in late September, two former mayors met in a law office in Locri, in Italy’s Southern region of Calabria.

From Time

Earlier this year he announced his candidacy for the regional administration, in support of Luigi De Magistris, mayor of Naples who ran for governor of Calabria.

From Time

Food in Calabria was pride, self-sufficiency and community all mixed together in one mouthful.

From The Daily Beast

Nothing embodies the failures of the Italian state more neatly than the highway from Salerno to Reggio Calabria.

From The Daily Beast

In Basilicata and Calabria, hundreds of families are living in houses where electricity has been cut off.

From The Daily Beast

On August 9, a rickety fishing boat with 124 Syrians reached the southern coast of Calabria.

From The Daily Beast

Other groups include Sicily's Cosa Nostra and Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta.

From The Daily Beast

The best native wools came from Calabria and Apulia, that from near Tarentum being the best of all.

From Project Gutenberg

He often swam over from Sicily to Calabria, a tempestuous and dangerous passage, carrying letters from the king.

From Project Gutenberg

A writer, Norman Douglas, in 1914 found the existence of a phallic cult in Calabria.

From Project Gutenberg

To-day there enters our school a little Italian born in Reggio, in Calabria, more than five hundred miles from here.

From Project Gutenberg

So saying, he rose and pointed out on the wall map of Italy the spot where lay Reggio, in Calabria.

From Project Gutenberg