Gorizia

[ gaw-ree-tsyah ]

/ gɔˈri tsyɑ /

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noun

a city in NE Italy, on the Isonzo River, N of Trieste.

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German Görz.

Words nearby Gorizia

go right, go right through one, gorilla, gorillagram, goring, Gorizia, gork, Gorki, Gorky, Gorlin syndrome, Görlitz

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How to use Gorizia in a sentence

Guns were hauled up these ridges by hundreds of men, just as the Italians were doing on the Gorizia front.
Australia in Arms|Phillip F.E. Schuler
Gorizia itself was protected by two mountain strongholds, Sabatino to the north and San Michele to the south.
A Short History of the Great War|A. F. Pollard
We have written the name Gorizia; but we have written it with fear and trembling.
Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice|Edward A. Freeman
We must seek for their surviving fragments at Udine and Gorizia.
Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice|Edward A. Freeman

Gorizia is not a hill-town, nor can we call it a river-town.
Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice|Edward A. Freeman

British Dictionary definitions for Gorizia

Gorizia

/ (Italian ɡoˈrittsja) /

noun

a city in NE Italy, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, on the Isonzo River: cultural centre under the Hapsburgs. Pop: 35 667 (2001)German name: Görz Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian name: Gorica

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