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Naples

Province of southern Italy in western Campania region; capital Naples; area 1,171 sq km/452 sq mi; population (2000 est) 3,099,400.

Naples

City in Collier County, southwestern Florida, on the Gulf of Mexico; population (2000) 21,000. It is located 56 km/35 mi south of Fort Myers, at the western end of the Tamiami Trail and Alligator Alley.

Naples was developed as a resort from the 1880s, and was for a long time accessible only by boat from Fort Myers; its 300 m/1000 ft-long fishing pier dates from that era. The city is now becoming an increasingly fashionable winter resort, renowned for its miles of beaches and its elegant Fifth Avenue shopping district. Commercial shrimping and fishing and the packing and transportation of vegetables are important economic activities here. Naples is situated an area rich in flora and fauna, with Rookery Bay (including the Briggs Nature Center) lying 8 km/5 mi to the south, Collier Seminole State Park 24 km/15 mi to the southeast, and the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary 32 km/20 mi to the northeast. The community of East Naples (population 23,000) has been the site of much recent residential development.
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The new are either entirely new, as was Milan to Francesco Sforza, or they are, as it were, members annexed to the hereditary state of the prince who has acquired them, as was the kingdom of Naples to that of the King of Spain.
The Prince by Machiavelli, Nicolo View in context
Through all the flimsy things we see at once As easily as through a Naples bonnet - Trash of all trash
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
From Leghorn to Naples (calling at Civita Vecchia to land any who may prefer to go to Rome from that point), the distance will be made in about thirty-six hours; the route will lay along the coast of Italy, close by Caprera, Elba, and Corsica.
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