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Calabria Definition

Ca·la·bria (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

Calabria Related Forms
Ca·la·brian adjective, noun
Calabria Quotes

Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua rura duces. Mantua brought me life,Calabria death; now Naples holds me: I sang of flocks and farms and heroes.

—Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro

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