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Napoli

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Naples is the regional capital of Campania, Italy. With a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits, it is the largest city in southern Italy and the third-largest city of Italy after Rome and Milan, while its province-level municipality is the third most populous metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 2,958,410 residents. Its metropolitan area, the seventh most populous in the European Union, stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately 30 kilometres. Naples also plays a key role in international diplomacy, being home to NATO's Allied Joint Force Command Naples and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean.

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Napoleon Bonaparte made his sister Caroline the Queen of Naples. When the old guard reclaimed the city, she reinvented herself as Countess of Lepona, which was an invented place, which was an anagram of Napoli — the Italian word for Naples.

from No Such Thing As A Smart Cheetah At Harvard, 2021-03-19 at 00:11:20 · read transcript

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  1. She was one of the main people who helped to excavate Pompeii because she was really interested in archaeology. She started her school for girls in Naples. Then, on the other hand, as soon as it looked like Napoleon might be losing, she suddenly got on the side of the opponents and just went, oh, yeah, yeah, no, we're on your side, we're on your side, please don't kick us out of Napoli. Napoleon was absolutely furious about that.

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  2. Eventually he said that she could go to Naples and then it was OK for a few years. Then eventually he got kicked out at Waterloo and then she got kicked out of there. Then she basically cosplayed it for the rest of her life. It's clever that it was Napoli and she was Napoleon's sister. It's she could have made a little joke about that in her kind of welcome speech. We had a successful stand up grid, didn't she?

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