Chioggia

[kee-oh-jee-uh; Italian kyawd-jah]

noun

a city in NE Italy, on an island at the S end of the Lagoon of Venice.

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Chioggia to Ferrara, by the road they would go, is a handsome fifty miles.
Little Novels of Italy
Maurice Henry Hewlett
Like everything at Chioggia, it is dirty and has fallen from its first estate.
New Italian sketches
John Addington Symonds
Chioggia reminds one of the Jewish quarter in the east end of London.
Venice
Dorothy Menpes
North of Comacchio on the shore of a Venetian lagoon is Chioggia.
Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car
Francis Miltoun
On the 16th of August a general assault was made on Chioggia.
Venice and its Story
Thomas Okey