Rossano, a town of Southern Italy, in Calabria, 2 m. from the SW. shore of the Gulf of Taranto; has a fine cathedral and castle; valuable quarries of marble and alabaster are wrought in the vicinity.
Population (circa 1900) given as 19,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ross, Sir John * Rossbach