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Leghorn (Walled city and seaport)

a walled city and seaport of Italy on the Mediterranean Sea. Leg- Italy on the Mediterranean Sea. Leghorn has an outer and inner harbor and a good roadstead. A lighthouse, 170 feet above sea-level, commands the harbor.

Among the chief articles of manufacturing industry are woolen caps, straw hats, glass, paper, soap, starch, rope, leather, etc.

Shipbuilding is extensively engaged in. It has besides a large export and import trade. Leghorn was made a free port about the middle of the 16th century, and owes much of its eminence and prosperity to the fostering care of the Medici family and the subsequent rulers of Tuscany. Pop. about 110,000.