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Ragusa   /rɑgˈusə/   Listen
Ragusa

noun
1.
A port city in southwestern Croatia on the Adriatic; a popular tourist center.  Synonym: Dubrovnik.





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"Ragusa" Quotes from Famous Books



... difficult to sanction this spelling of the name of this Jesuit father who is so often mentioned in the analytic treatment of conics. He was born in Ragusa in 1711, and the original spelling was Ru[d]er Josip Bo[vs]kovi['c]. When he went to live in Italy, as professor of mathematics at Rome (1740) and at Pavia, the name was spelled Ruggiero Giuseppe ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan
... sojourn at Spoleto I will introduce two letters written to Michelangelo by the Archbishop of Ragusa from his See. The first is dated March 28, 1557. and was sent to Spoleto, probably under the impression that Buonarroti had not yet returned to Rome. After lamenting the unsettled state of public ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds


Words linked to "Ragusa" :   urban center, city, Croatia, port, metropolis, Hrvatska, Republic of Croatia


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