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Ausonia is the ancient Greek name for lower Italy, extended poetically to all
Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...
. Ausonia may also refer to:


Person

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Auson (king) Auson () was in some stories of Greek mythology a son of Odysseus and Calypso or Circe. He was the first king of Ausones and also Ausonia derived its name from him. His son Liparus, founded and gave his name to Lipara. The historian Dionysius of ...
, son of Odysseus, from which Ausonia in Italy took its name


Places


Argentina

* Ausonia, Argentina, a community in General San Martín Department, Córdoba


Italy

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Ausonia, Lazio Ausonia is a town and ''comune'' in southern Lazio, central Italy. It takes its name from the Ausones/Aurunci, whose ancient town Ausona (ancient city), Ausona (member of the Auruncan Pentapolis), located nearby, was destroyed by the ancient Rome ...
, a ''comune'' in the province of Frosinone *
Ausona (ancient city) Ausona (today Ausonia) was a 4th-century BC city in the central Italian region of Latium. It was one of the three cities possessed by the tribe of the Ausones and its name seems to imply that it was their chief city or metropolis (the others were C ...
, the ancient capital of the Ausones


Mars

* Ausonia Mensa, a geographical feature on the planet Mars *
Ausonia Montes Ausonia Montes is a mountain (officially ''mountains'') in the Mare Tyrrhenum quadrangle of Mars, at 25.42° south latitude and 99.04° east longitude. It is across and was named after an albedo Albedo ( ; ) is the fraction of sunlight tha ...
, a mountain on Mars


Ships

* German aircraft carrier ''I'' (1915), a German aircraft carrier * RMS ''Ausonia'', a 1921 British ocean liner * SS ''Ausonia'' (1956), an Italian cruise ship * MS ''Cruise Ausonia'', a 2002 fast Ro-Pax jumbo ferry


Sports

* U.S. Ausonia Spezia, an Italian football (soccer) team * , football club


Organizations

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Arbora & Ausonia Arbora & Ausonia was a company that dealt in the manufacturing and sale of absorbent products for the child and family hygiene, feminine hygiene and adult incontinence markets. It fully merged into Procter & Gamble in 2013. History Arbora Holdin ...
, a Portuguese/Spanish company specialized in hygiene products *
Lega Sud Ausonia Lega Sud Ausonia (''Southern League Ausonia'') is a minor independentist political party in Italy. The party was founded in 1996, as the sister-party of Lega Nord in Southern Italy, and is led by Gianfranco Vestuto. Similarly to Lega Nord's go ...
, an Italian political party


Other uses

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Ausonia family Ausonia is the ancient Greek name for lower Italy, extended poetically to all Italy. Ausonia may also refer to: Person * Auson (king), son of Odysseus, from which Ausonia in Italy took its name Places Argentina * Ausonia, Argentina, a commun ...
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63 Ausonia 63 Ausonia is a stony Vestian asteroid from the inner region of the asteroid belt, approximately 100 kilometers (60 miles) in diameter. It was discovered by Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis on 10 February 1861, from the Astronomical Obse ...
, an asteroid


See also

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Ausones "Ausones" (; ), the original name and the extant Greek form for the Latin "Aurunci", was a name applied by Greek writers to describe various Italic peoples inhabiting the southern and central regions of Italy. The term was used, specifically, ...
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Aurunci The Aurunci were an Italic tribe that lived in southern Italy from around the 1st millennium BC. They were eventually defeated by Rome and subsumed into the Roman Republic during the second half of the 4th century BC. Identity Aurunci is the n ...
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Ausenium ''Ausenium'' (atomic symbol Ao) and ''Hesperium'' (atomic symbol Es) were the names initially assigned to the transuranic elements with atomic numbers 93 and 94, respectively. The discovery of the elements, now discredited, was made by Enrico Fermi ...
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Ausonius Decimius Magnus Ausonius (; ) was a Latin literature, Roman poet and Education in ancient Rome, teacher of classical rhetoric, rhetoric from Burdigala, Gallia Aquitania, Aquitaine (now Bordeaux, France). For a time, he was tutor to the future E ...
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