Abruzzi
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- proper noun
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Abruzos
- I come from a small village in Abruzzi, Italy.
Examples
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Tell me, did you go fishing in Abruzzi?
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The Feast was brought to Cleveland's Little Italy area by immigrants in the late 1800s, many from Italy's Abruzzi region.
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In Abruzzi, perhaps some of the best.
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What about the Abruzzi, and the chestnut woods and the river?
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Many from Abruzzi settled in Western PA, Youngstown, Ohio, and Detroit.
Blog text (13) -
A typical case is Attilio Sanci, a former peasant from Abruzzi who spent two years employed in coal mines in Belgium before arriving in Canada in 1952.
Academic text (1991) -
The prediction had been posted weeks earlier by a technician at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Abruzzi, Italy.
Synonyms
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A mountainous region in central Italy by the Adriatic Sea known for national parks and old towns
Compounds
A former mountainous area in central Italy by the Adriatic Sea now split into the regions Abruzzo and Molise
Surface Forms
Etymology
Abruzzi comes from an old name, Aprutium, which itself came from the name of the local people long ago, the Praetutii. So Abruzzi is simply the historic name for that part of central Italy, which is why it still means the mountainous region on the Adriatic coast.