Venetia
Americannoun
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an ancient district in NE Italy: later a Roman province bounded by the Alps, the Po River, and the Adriatic Sea.
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a female given name.
noun
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the area of ancient Italy between the lower Po valley and the Alps: later a Roman province
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the territorial possessions of the medieval Venetian republic that were at the head of the Adriatic and correspond to the present-day region of Veneto and a large part of Friuli-Venezia Giulia
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“There will be a lot of people in the streets,” said Tshilidzi Sikhwivhilu, local chairman of the National Union of Mineworkers, the biggest union at Venetia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
MUSINA, South Africa—For 13 years, Tinah Nemahunguni has been overseeing and operating machinery in the diamond-recovery plant at Venetia, the South African mine of diamond behemoth De Beers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
At the Venetia mine, De Beers has pledged to use those two years of downtime to make infrastructure more "efficient" with increased "capacity", external, ready to reopen production once market conditions improve.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Venetia, which lies near the borders with Botswana and Zimbabwe, has been run by the De Beers group for more than 30 years.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
The sunflower is a symbol of constancy, and the portrait represents Digby in mourning for his wife, Venetia, who had died suddenly in 1633.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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