PALERMO Definition & Meaning

Palermo

[ puh-lur-moh, -lair-; Italian pah-ler-maw ]

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noun

a seaport in and the capital of Sicily, in the NW part.

Palermo

/ paˈlɛrmo; -ˈlɜː-; pəˈlɛəməʊ /

noun

the capital of Sicily, on the NW coast: founded by the Phoenicians in the 8th century bc Pop: 686 722 (2001)

Palermo

City in northwest Sicily on the Tyrrhenian Sea, an arm of the Mediterranean Sea ; capital of Sicily.

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Notes

Palermo's convenient location has made it an important port for trans-Mediterranean shipping for three thousand years. Settled by Phoenicia in the eighth century b.c. , it has come under the influence of many civilizations, including the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire . It has also come under the control of the Arabs and the French. Palermo has long been a center for art and architecture.

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Other �y��vlog Forms

�ʲ�·��·��·�ٲ�� [p, uh, -, lur, -mi-tn, -, lair, -], adjective noun

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Payne died last October after falling from a balcony at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina.

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Of the 181 arrest warrants served on suspected Sicilian gangsters across four districts of the in capital Palermo, 33 were for convicted figures already in jail.

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Italian police have launched a series of raids targeting Mafia clans operating in and around the Sicilian capital Palermo.

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On a hill overlooking the city of Palermo, in Sicily, sits a lesser-known gem of Italian art: the cathedral of Monreale.

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Guadagnino first discovered Burroughs’ “Queer” at a bookstore in Palermo, Sicily, when he was 17.

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