Basilicata
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- proper noun
- Located in the instep of the Italian boot, the town has always been an isolated, forgotten part of Basilicata, among the least populated, least visited, and least understood regions of Italy.
Examples
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PHOTO (COLOR): In Basilicata, left, a shepherd guards his flock.
Academic text (1996) -
"Indies" became a fluid symbol of any place where the gospel could be preached and souls won to Christ, and where a missionary felt assured his work in Basilicata or Calabria was as important and difficult as his confreres' efforts in China or Brazil.
Academic text (2003) -
"Missionary analogies compared people to animals, as when Paolucci observed that shepherds in Basilicata were "in form and mental capacity... not unlike the beasts that they themselves looked after, completely ignorant of prayer as well as other particular mysteries of the holy Faith, even of the idea of God."
Academic text (2003) -
In Basilicata, left, a shepherd guards his flock.
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The town, which lies east of Naples in Italy's southern region of Basilicata, is a jumble of small dwellings fashioned out of cream-colored tuff stone.
Synonyms
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An ancient region in southern Italy that is now part of Basilicata
Surface Forms
Etymology
Basilicata likely comes from basilica, a word that goes back to Greek basileus meaning 'king' and later came to mean a 'large church'; one helpful way to remember it is to imagine the region as land of 'royal' churches or imperial power. That's why the name Basilicata fits a historic region in southern Italy.