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Campania

NOUN
  1. a region of southwestern Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea including the islands of Capri and Ischia

How To Use Campania In A Sentence

  • So when the earth-and-timber ramparts of Sulla's camp began to trace lines across the rolling Campanian horizon, Quintus Sertorius bade his cousin-in-law a grave goodbye, geed up his horse and departed. Fortune's Favorites
  • The officers of the amphitheatre were still employed in the task of fixing the vast awning (or _velaria_) which covered the whole, and which luxurious invention the Campanians arrogated to themselves: it was woven of the whitest Apulian wool, and variegated with broad stripes of crimson. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
  • Oh, and I read "An Enigmatic New Lambeosaurine Hadrosaur (Reptilia: Dinosauria) from the Upper Shale Member of the Campanian Aguja Formation of Trans-Pecos Texas," a weird beast named Angulomastacator daviesi, known thus far only from its boomerang-shaped maxilla bone. Waking the Witch
  • The inevitable vulcanology lesson is worth the read but I was more struck by how absolutely contemporary in many respects was life in Roman Campania of the first century.
  • Cum acerbae famis tempore grauis atque inexplicabilis indicta coemptio profligatura inopia Campaniam prouinciam uideretur, certamen aduersum praefectum praetorii communis commodi ratione suscepi, rege cognoscente contendi et ne coemptio exigeretur, euici. The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
  • Robin Campaniano, general partner of Ulupono Initiative, the Omidyars' investment fund and philanthropic organization, says 'ulu, as breadfruit is called in Hawaiian, could cut down Hawaii's estimated 90% reliance on food imports. 'Food of the Future' Has One Hitch: It's All But Inedible
  • His right comprised Campanians, who were armed with axes; he hurled them against the Carthaginian left; the centre attacked the enemy, and those at the other extremity, who were out of peril, kept the velites at a distance. Salammbo
  • Oliveto Citra, Rocca da spide, and Genzano di Lucania: All the places mentioned lie within the borders of ancient Lucania; today some are in Basilicata and others in Campania. The Spartacus War
  • The officers of the amphitheater were still employed in the task of fixing the vast awning (or _velaria_) which covered the whole, and which luxurious invention the Campanians arrogated to themselves: it was woven of the whitest Apulian wool, and variegated with broad stripes of crimson. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
  • Sicily's Cosa Nostra, the Camorra from Campania, the 'Ndragheta of Calabria and the lesser known Sacra Corona Unita in Puglia dominate the economic life of one third of Italy. Berlusconi Is No Mobster
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