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LAURIA, or LORIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 286 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAURIA, or LORIA  , a city of
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Basilicata, Italy, in the province of Potenza, situated near the
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borders of
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Calabria, 7e m. by road S. of Lagonegro . Pop . Nor) ro,47o . It is a walled
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town on the steep side of a hill with another portion in the plain below, 1821 ft. above sea-level . The castle was the birthplace of Ruggiero di Loria, the
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great
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Italian
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admiral of the 13th century . It was destroyed by the French under Massena in 1806 .

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