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A port of Italy in the Adriatic, second to that of Venice; founded by Syracusans.
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A port on the E. of Jutland, with a considerable export and import trade, and a fine old Gothic cathedral.
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A port on the N. of the Gulf of Salerno, 24 m. SE. of Naples; of great importance in the Middle Ages, and governed by Doges of its own.
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A Portuguese Jesuit, born at Teneriffe, called the Apostle of the New World (1538-1597).
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A Portuguese navigator, companion of Albuquerque; Nuna d', his son, viceroy of the Indies from 1528 to 1539; Rodrique d', archbishop of Lisbon, who in 1640 freed Portugal from the Spanish domination, and established the house of Braganza on the throne.
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A Portuguese who, in the 15th century, visited Abyssinia and wrote an account of it.
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A powerful Athenian family, of which Pericles and Alcibiades were members, who professed to be descended from Alcmaeon, the grandson of Nestor.
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A powerful Canaanitish tribe, seemingly of tall stature, NE. of the Jordan; subdued by Joshua at Gibeon.
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