Caulonia

American  

[kou-law-nyah] / kaʊˈlɔ nyɑ /

noun

1. a town in S Calabria, in S Italy: ruins of ancient Achaean colony.

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Example Sentences

The site of the original Caulonia is quite uncertain.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

To reach the uplands of Fabbrizia and Serra, whither I was now bound, I might have utilized the driving road from Gioioso, on the Reggio side of Caulonia.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

The woodlands have retired far inland; yet here at Caulonia, says Thucydides, was prepared the timber for the fleets of Athens.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

Had the old city of Caulonia, numbering perhaps 20,000 inhabitants, stood here under such conditions of hygiene, it would have been expunged off the face of the earth in fifty years.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

Of forty labourers that left Caulonia for Cotrone in 1908 all returned infected save two, who had made liberal use of quinine as a prophylactic.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman