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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northern Italy northeast of Genoa. Probably of Celtic origin, it was taken by the Romans in 222 BC and has been an important commercial, financial, cultural, and industrial center since medieval times because of its strategic location.
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- proper noun A male
given name of Slavic origin. - proper noun Province of
Lombardy ,Italy . - proper noun City and capital of the province of Milan.
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- noun the capital of Lombardy in northern Italy; has been an international center of trade and industry since the Middle Ages
Etymologies
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MILAN, speculation about Greek-style sovereign-debt and banking-sector troubles migrated to Italy, with a wave of heavy selling hitting shares traded in Milan.
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Husband's Alleged Torture Associated Press MILAN, Italy -- The wife of an Egyptian cleric taken from a Milan street, allegedly as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, wept Wednesday as she described her husband's alleged torture in an Egyptian jail.
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MILAN - An appeal court rejected a new request by Milan magistrates for the arrest of an executive of one of Prime Minister Silvio
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MILAN - An appeal court rejected a new request by Milan magistrates for the arrest of an executive of one of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's companies on suspicion of false accounting, court sources said.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Dozens of immigrants from North Africa rioted during the night in a multi-ethnic neighborhood in Milan, smashing shop windows, overturning cars to protest at the knifing death of an Egyptian, Italian police said on Sunday.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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MILAN (Reuters) - Dozens of immigrants from North Africa rioted during the night in a multi-ethnic neighbourhood in Milan, smashing shop windows, overturning cars to protest at the knifing death of an Egyptian, Italian police said on Sunday.
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MILAN (AP) - Actor George Clooney has testified at a fraud trial in Milan and even the judge said it seemed like a Hollywood set.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Dozens of immigrants from North Africa rioted during the night in a multi-ethnic neighbourhood in Milan, smashing shop windows, overturning cars to protest at the knifing death of an Egyptian, Italian police said on Sunday.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Dozens of immigrants from North Africa rioted during the night in a multi-ethnic neighborhood in Milan, smashing shop windows, overturning cars to protest at the knifing death of an Egyptian, Italian police said on Sunday.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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