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MAGENTA

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 304 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAGENTA  , a

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town of
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Lombardy, Italy, in the province of Milan, 16 m. by
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rail W. of Milan city, 364 ft. about sea-levelsituated in the midst of rice-fields . Pop . (19o1), 8012 . It manufactures silks and matches, and is famous for the
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battle (1859) in which the allied French and Piedmontese defeated the Austrians (see
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ITALIAN
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WARS) . A memorial
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chapel and a monument were erected on the battle-field in 1862 .

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