A city of northwest Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. Captured by Rome in 178 BC, it was a major naval station of the Habsburg empire and passed to Italy in 1919 and to Yugoslavia in 1947. |
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n. See Table at currency. [Tswana, rain (used as greeting for good fortune).] |
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