Melfi, a town of Southern Italy, 30 miles N. of Potenza. The once magnificent cathedral (1155) was ruined by earthquake in 1851. Melfi was the Norman capital of Apulia. Pop. 11,765.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 126
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