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Torre del Greco

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Torre del Gre·co  (dl grk)
A city of southern Italy on the Bay of Naples near Mount Vesuvius. It is a fishing port and tourist resort. Population: 88,900.
Torre del Greco (Italian) [ˈtorre del ˈgrɛːko]
n
(Placename) a city in SW Italy, in Campania near Vesuvius on the Bay of Naples: damaged several times by eruptions. Pop.: 100 688 (1992)


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Hobnail, the reformer; and Reverend Jul Bat, who has converted the whole torrid zone in his Sunday school; and Signor Torre del Greco, who extinguished Vesuvius by pouring into it the Bay of Naples; Spahi, the Persian ambassador; and Tul Wil Shan, the exiled nabob of Nepaul, whose saddle is the new moon.
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