Calabria

(kə lābrē ə; It kä läbr)

  1. region occupying the southernmost part of the peninsula of Italy, opposite Sicily: 5,822 sq mi (15,079 sq km); pop. 2,070,000
  2. former region (until 11th cent.) constituting what is now S Apulia, in SE Italy

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See Calabria in American Heritage Dictionary 4

A region of southern Italy forming the toe of the Italian “boot.” Founded as a Greek colony, it was taken by the Romans in 268 B.C. and by the Byzantine Empire in the ninth century A.D.

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