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CIVITA VECCHIA

Volume 2 · 48 words · 1771 Edition

a port-town and fortress of Italy, in St Peter's patrimony, situated on a bay of the Mediterranean, thirty miles north-west of Rome: E. long. 12° 30', N. lat. 42°.

It is the station of the galleys belonging to the pope, who has lately declared it a free port.