Augusta , City, Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...city, Italy ougoo sta, city (1991 pop. 34,189), E Sicily, Italy, on an island (formerly a peninsula) in the Ionian Sea, connected...banking town. Augusta was badly damaged by earthquakes in 1693 and 1848. Of note is Frederick IIs castle (now a penitentiary...