Alessandria

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Alessandria

(Italian alesˈsandrja)

(Placename) a town in NW Italy, in Piedmont. Pop: 85 438 (2001)

A•les•san•dri•a

(ˌɑ lɛsˈsɑn dri ɑ)

n.

a city in NW Italy, in Piedmont. 102,774.

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The battles of Il Taro, 1495; Alessandria, 1499; Capua, 1501; Genoa, 1507; Vaila, 1509; Bologna, 1511; Mestri, 1513.

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I embarked at Alicante, reached Genoa after a prosperous voyage, and proceeded thence to Milan, where I provided myself with arms and a few soldier's accoutrements; thence it was my intention to go and take service in Piedmont, but as I was already on the road to Alessandria della Paglia, I learned that the great Duke of Alva was on his way to Flanders.

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Beyond Alessandria we passed the battle-field of Marengo.

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Parme, relegue en 2015 en D4 italienne apres avoir fait faillite, evoluera la saison prochaine en Serie B, apres sa victoire en barrages d'accession face a Alessandria 2 a 0, samedi a Florence.

Foot -- Italie : Parme remonte en Serie B, deux ans apres sa faillite

Esseti owns and operates a small size organic rankine cycle biomass power plant based in Predosa, near Alessandria, to the east of Turin, Italy.

Deal snapshot: COGENPOWER SELLS ITALIAN ELECTRICITY PRODUCER ESSETI ENERGIA

55pm); Coppa Italia, AC Milan v Alessandria (Sky Sports 1, 7.

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Eco - who was born in Alessandria - said: "I am a philosopher.

TRIBUTES AS WRITER ECO DIES

Born on January 5, 1932, Eco was the son of a shopkeeper from Alessandria in northern Italy.

Italy mourns Umberto Eco, literary genius and [beaucoup moins que]immense humanist[beaucoup plus grand que]

Alessandria, University of Rochester and NBER, and Horag Choi, Monash University, "The Dynamics of the U.

International finance and macroeconomics

The Bellandis, who already had an adult son, were told at the Santi Antonio e Biagio hospital in Alessandria, Italy, that an abortion was needed to save Aurora's life.

'Make doctors p g pay for girl we tried to abort'

ALESSANDRIA, the dam of yesterday's Prix deGuichewinner Saint Baudolino, producedacoltfoal by CapeCrosson Thursday.

PapalBull getsoffthe mark with first winner

The visitors hit back with Barry roche saving superbly from James Devitt's free-kick and James Hanson's closerange header before Lewis Alessandria missed a great chance when he shot over from 12 yards.