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LUCERIA

Volume 6 · 51 words · 1778 Edition

(anc. geog.), a town of Apulia in Italy; which in Strabo's time still exhibited marks of Diomed's sovereignty in those parts. Ptolemy has Nuceria; whether from mistake, or the custom of his time, uncertain. Now Nocera de Pagani, in the kingdom of Naples. E. Long. 15° 0'. N. Lat. 40° 40'.