Foggia

[ fawd-jah ]

/ ˈfɔd dʒɑ /

noun

a city in SE Italy.

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Examples from the Web for foggia

One arch of his palace still remains, with an inscription telling us how under him Foggia became a royal and Imperial seat.
Studies of Travel: Italy|Edward A. Freeman
Of Foggia itself many perhaps have never heard except as a railway junction.
Studies of Travel: Italy|Edward A. Freeman
At Foggia we have not even the amount of hill which we have at Benevento.
Studies of Travel: Italy|Edward A. Freeman
This morning they made an attack on an Englishman going to visit your Lordship at Foggia, and carrying rich jewels.
The Weird of the Wentworths, Vol. 2|Johannes Scotus

He was much patronized by the Emperor Frederic, for whom he built the palace at Foggia, and made a tomb.
The Cathedral Builders|Leader Scott

British Dictionary definitions for foggia

Foggia

/ (Italian ˈfɔddʒa) /

noun

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)

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