Reggio Calabria

From Italian Reggio Calabria, Old Italian Reggio from Late Latin Rēgium, Latin Rhēgium, from Ancient Greek Ῥήγιον (Rhḗgion).

Reggio Calabria

1. Reggio Calabria (a historical province and metropolitan city of Calabria, Italy).
2. Reggio Calabria (a city and commune, the provincial capital of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy).
3. (history) Regium, an important flourishing Ancient Greek colonial settlement in Magna Graecia on the Strait of Messina from the early 1st millennium BCE thru the Hellenistic, Ancient Roman, Byzantine Roman and medieval epochs.

From the earlier Old Italian Reggio, from Late Latin Rēgium, Latin Rhēgium, from Ancient Greek Ῥήγιον (Rhḗgion). The city became known as Reggio Calabria after the Italian Unification.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛd.d͡ʒo kaˈla.brja/, /ˈred.d͡ʒo kaˈla.brja/

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• Hyphenation: Règ‧gio‧Ca‧là‧bria, Rég‧gio‧Ca‧là‧bria

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1. Reggio Calabria (a historical province and metropolitan city of Calabria, Italy)
2. Reggio Calabria (a city and commune, the provincial capital of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy)
3. (history) Regium, an important flourishing Ancient Greek colonial settlement in Magna Graecia on the Strait of Messina from the early 1st millennium BCE thru the Hellenistic, Ancient Roman, Byzantine Roman and medieval epochs

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