Salerno, a city of South Italy, on a gulf of the name, 33 m. SE. of Naples; has some fine Gothic buildings, notably the cathedral of St. Matthew; had a European fame in the Middle Ages for its medical school and university, closed in 1817; cotton-spinning is the chief industry; in the neighbourhood are the ruins of Pæstum and an old Norman castle.
Population (circa 1900) given as 22,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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