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VILLAFRANCA DI VERONA

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 68 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VILLAFRANCA DI

VERONA  , a
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town of
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Venetia, Italy, in the province of Verona, 11 m . S.S.W. of Verona, on the railway to Mantua, 174 ft. above sea-level . Pop . (1901) 5037 (town); 9635 (commune) . It has considerable
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silk
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industries . Here preliminaries of peace were signed between
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Napoleon III. and the Austrians in 1859 after the
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battle of
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Solferino . Five miles to the N. is
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Custozza, where the Italians were defeated by the Austrians in 1848 and 1866 . Villafranca is a
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common place name in Italy .

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