Ragusa

[ rah-goo-zah ]

/ rɑˈgu zɑ /

a province in SE Italy.

a city in and the capital of this province.

a city in SE Sicily.

Italian name of Dubrovnik.

Example sentences from the Web for ragusa

Ragusa has a very Venetian look in its old part and a very nineteenth-century look in its new part.

Vacation days in Greece |Rufus B. Richardson
All Ragusa, though it has an Italian varnish, is Slavonic at heart.

Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice |Edward A. Freeman
The small republic of Ragusa, during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, was at the zenith of its splendour and welfare.

Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations |Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob Robinson
He refused the Archbishopric of Ragusa and continued his literary labors in Rome.

The Jesuits, 1534-1921 |Thomas J. Campbell

Its starting-point will be, not Ragusa itself but its port of Gravosa.

Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice |Edward A. Freeman

Ragusa

/ (Italian raˈɡuːza) /

an industrial town in SE Sicily. Pop: 68 956 (2001)

the Italian name (until 1918) for Dubrovnik