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Foggia

American  
[fawd-jah] / ˈfɔd dʒɑ /

noun

  1. a city in SE Italy.


Foggia British  
/ ˈfɔddʒa /

noun

  1. a city in SE Italy, in Apulia: seat of Emperor Frederick II; centre for Carbonari revolutionary societies in the revolts of 1820, 1848, and 1860. Pop: 155 203 (2001)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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They bartered for fuel and, on March 17, the combined crews escaped to Foggia, Italy, where they were able to notify their families back home that they had survived.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

The president of Apulia, who was attending a rally in Rome to ask for peace in Ukraine, said in a post on Facebook that he had left the event to go to Foggia.

From Reuters ● Nov. 5, 2022

Professor Hugo Bowles, from the University of Foggia in Italy, who is collaborating on the project, said the different interpretations had been used together to help "read" the letter.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2022

The prosecutor’s office in Foggia has begun an investigation into what the governor of Puglia has called a “catastrophic error”.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2020

From Caserta, indeed, there are two independent lines to Naples, while a main line runs to Benevento and Foggia across the Apennines.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

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