Spezia, the chief naval station, “the Portsmouth,” of Italy; occupies a strongly fortified site at the head of a bay on the W. side of Italy, 56 m. SE. of Genoa; here are the naval shipbuilding yards, national arsenal, navy store-houses, besides schools of navigation, manufactures of cables, sail-cloth, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 20,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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