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Pescara

American  
[pes-kah-rah] / pɛsˈkɑ rɑ /

noun

  1. a city in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.


Pescara British  
/ pesˈkaːra /

noun

  1. a city and resort in E central Italy, on the Adriatic. Pop: 116 286 (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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Firefighters in Pescara, Abruzzo say they have already received more than 200 calls for help after heavy rainfall triggered flooding.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2024

Ninety of those matches were in Italy’s top-flight Serie A with Palermo, Pescara and Parma.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2022

Italy’s Interior Ministry said the bus had set out from Ukraine and was heading south to Pescara, an Adriatic port city, when it overturned.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2022

One day in 2011 a man named Michele Spano Pescara approached Gabriel Prieto, an archaeologist at the National University of Trujillo in Peru.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2019

Again, the ever-recurring war came on, and in the spring of 1512 the King of Naples conferred the doubtful privilege on the Marchesa di Pescara of serving as the royal representative.

From Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting

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