Campanian

[kam-pa-nee-uhn, -pan-yuhn]

noun

1. a geological age within the Late Cretaceous period.

2. a person from the Campania region in southern Italy.

adjective

1. relating to the Campania region in southern Italy.

Example Sentences

“People would meet to dine after sunset; the flickering light of the lamps had the effect of making the images appear to move, especially after a few glasses of good Campanian wine,” Gabriel Zuchtriegel, the director of the archaeological park of Pompeii, said in a news release about the dining area.

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Originally, Napoli was to play a home match against fellow Campanian club and rival Salernitana on Saturday, but the game was moved to Sunday for safety reasons.

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In 1985, Italian authorities say, armed robbers stole it from Santa Maria Capua Vetere, a town in Italy’s Campanian region.

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But that offers little solace to the close-knit, multigenerational families decimated by the virus in their own homes — to the infected sisters who lost their father and then saw their grandfather hospitalized in hard-hit Bergamo; to the Campanian hairdresser who lost both her parents; to the metalworker in Voghera who died days after losing his two sons.

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At one time derided by the Sicilian and Campanian mafias, today the ’Ndrangheta is by far the most powerful criminal group in Italy and one of the richest in the world.

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