Novara, capital of a North Italian province, 60 miles N. of Turin by rail, with several fine churches, a trade in silk, grain, and wine, and manufactures of silk, cotton, and linen. Here the Sardinians were utterly defeated by the Austrians under Radetzky, on 23d March 1849. Pop. 19,557.
Novara
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 539
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