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Leghorn, Italy
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synonyms: Livorno ???
tags: [geography] [obsolete]
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Definition:Livorno: a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of 159,431 residents in February 2015.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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When he was going abroad the last time, he took his passage in a ship bound for Leghorn, and his baggage was actually embarked. In going down the river by water, he was by mistake put on board of another vessel under sail;
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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The husband was come home, then; and the two together put her aboard a small trader bound to Leghorn, and from that to France
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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Livorno is in Tuscany. It was traditionally called Leghorn in English, but that name is mostly restricted to a breed of chickens, nowadays. [...] Livorno is a good starting point and base for a tour of Tuscany. You can reach Pisa in half an hour, Lucca and Florence in somewhat over an hour.
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