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catania
/kəˈteɪnjə/
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What does catania mean?
proper noun
- A port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy.
- A metropolitan city of Sicily, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Catania.
- A habitational surname from Italian.
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proper noun
- (historical) A former province of Sicily.
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IPA pronunciation
/kəˈteɪnjə/
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Be that as it may, a lava stream out of Mount Etna, in Sicily, came once down straight upon the town of Catania.
With these data, the ratio of the height to the circumference would be only a seventy-second; but I find on tracing a curve through Catania, Palermo, Bronte, and Piemonte, only 62 miles in circumference, according to the best maps.
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This man's name was Nicolas, born of poor parents at Catania.
More recently the Anthropological Society of Vienna compared the stone hatchets found near the Canadian lakes and in the deserts of Uruguay, with others from Catania in Italy, Angermunde in Brandenburg, and a tomb in Scandinavia, deciding that they were all exactly alike.