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- proper noun A city in
Greece located in the Preveza prefecture.
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Examples
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As he had just conquered Preveza from the French, Ali Pasha thought he should be pleasing the Englishman by announcing the fact to him.
Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English Teresa Guiccioli 1836
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The statue, said to have been found in the Ionian Sea near Preveza, Greece, has been restored and is now on display in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
The Trial in Rome 2006
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I bought Battered Guitars (on page 19 of the catalogue), a book of poetry by Kostas Karyotakis, the dark and melancholy Greek who committed suicide (back in 1928) in Preveza, Greece (not far from where I live now!)
WEDNESDAY MARGINALIA TEV 2006
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At Lipson I rode another truck through Agios Nikolaos to Arta and Preveza, and from there it was simple to go to Levkas with a fellow fisherman who was taking mail to the island.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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An allied European fleet was defeated near Preveza in the Adriatic (Sept. 1538) and failed to break Ottoman control of the Aegean and Ionian seas.
1523 2001
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He and his companion John Cam Hobhouse arrived in Greece at Patras and went to Preveza, near the ruins of Nikopolis, then journeyed to Ioannina.
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Brøndsted's encounter with Ali Pasha occurred in Preveza in November of 1812.
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Eventually the diggers uncovered "three fine square marble slabs," which Brøndsted thought might have been floor paving and which were then placed in a sedan chair for transport to the palace in Preveza.
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The operations brilliantly begun by the Duke of the Abruzzi against the Turkish torpedo boats encountered at Preveza were stopped by Austria in a sudden and absolute manner.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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Byzantines it became practically the capital of the Ionian Islands and of the neighbouring cities in Epirus (Preveza, Buthrotum, etc.), and signalized itself by courageous conflicts with Dalmatians,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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