Turi, Apulia
Comune in Apulia, Italy
Location of Turi
40°58′N 17°07′E / 40.967°N 17.117°E / 40.967; 17.117
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Turi (Turese: Ture [ˈtuːrə]; Ancient Greek: Θυριαι, romanized: Thuriai) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Bari and region of Apulia, southern Italy. With a population approaching 12,000, it lies a few miles inland from the town of Polignano A Mare on the Adriatic Sea.
The Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime for eleven years (1926-1937), served most of his sentence in Turi, and died shortly after he was released.
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- Polignano a Mare
- Putignano
- Rutigliano
- Ruvo di Puglia
- Sammichele di Bari
- Sannicandro di Bari
- Santeramo in Colle
- Terlizzi
- Toritto
- Triggiano
- Turi
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