Porto-Maurizio, a town of North Italy, stands embowered in olive-groves on the Gulf of Genoa, by rail 69 miles SW. of Genoa and 41 E. by N. of Nice, and consists of an old town on the hills and a new town next the sea, with a small harbour. Pop. 6500.—The province has an area of 468 sq. m. and a pop. of 145,818.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 334
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