Brindisi
an Adriatic seaport in SE Apulia, in SE Italy: important Roman city and naval station.
Contemporary Examples
Italian School Bombing Sparks Fear of Return to Bloodshed Barbie Latza Nadeau May 18, 2012
My Harrowing Libya Escape Tareke Brhane April 15, 2011
Historical Examples
The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) Various
My Antonia Willa Cather
A Fascinating Traitor Richard Henry Savage
A Labrador Doctor Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
With the Judans in the Palestine Campaign J. H. (John Henry) Patterson
Harper’s Young People, March 2, 1880 Various
With the Judans in the Palestine Campaign J. H. (John Henry) Patterson
Children of the Soil Henryk Sienkiewicz
noun
a port in SE Italy, in SE Apulia: important naval base in Roman times and a centre of the Crusades in the Middle Ages. Pop: 89 081 (2001) Ancient name Brundisium
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