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Key facts
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Apulia
- Metropolitan city
- Bari (BA)
- Mayor
- Giuseppe De Tomaso
- Total
- 70 km (27 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 254 m (833 ft)
- Density
- 170/km (440/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Turesi
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Dialing code
- 080
- Patron saint
- Sant'Oronzo
- Saint day
- August 26
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- comune of Italy
- Official name
- Turi
- Demonym
- turesi
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Metropolitan City of Bari
- Population
- 12971
- Area
- 71.4
- Elevation
- 254
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Sammichele di Bari
- Official website
- www.comune.turi.ba.it
- Image
- San rocco davanti 2.JPG
- Dialing code
- 080
- Licence plate code
- BA
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- twinned administrative body
- Dakhla
- Commons category
- Turi (Italy)
- postal code
- 70010
- topic's main category
- Category:Turi (Italy)
- native label
- Turi
- different from
- Turi
- P8168
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Turi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.