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PIZZO

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 691 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIZZO  , a seaport of

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Calabria,
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Italy in the
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province of
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Catanzaro, 72 M. by
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rail N.E. of Reggio, situated on a steep cliff overlooking the Gulf of
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Santa Eufemia, 351 ft. above
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sea-level . Pop . (1901), 9172 . It has an old
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castle, in which
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Joachim
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Murat, ex-
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king of
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Naples, was shot on the 13th of
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October 1815 . The
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people engage in
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tunny- and
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coral-fishing . In 1783 the
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town was almost destroyed by an
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earth-quake, and it suffered some damage from the same cause in 1905 .

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