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Bastia

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Bas·ti·a  (bst-, bä-st)
A city of northeast Corsica, France, on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is a commercial and tourist center. Population: 38,000.

Bastia [ˈbɑːstjə]
n
(Placename) a port in NE Corsica: the main commercial and industrial town of the island: capital of Haute-Corse department. Pop.: 38 728 (1990)


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The day after we had drunk together to drown our quarrels, I left home because I had business at Bastia.
Offered to start for Bastia by mail-boat in the morning.
Well, then, if, like us, your excellency lived at Leghorn, you would hear, from time to time, that a little merchant vessel, or an English yacht that was expected at Bastia, at Porto-Ferrajo, or at Civita Vecchia, has not arrived; no one knows what has become of it, but, doubtless, it has struck on a rock and foundered.
 
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