Ravenna

name

Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Ravenna, from Latin Ravenna.

1. A province in the region of Emilia-Romagna, in northern Italy.
2. A coastal city, the present-day capital of the province of Ravenna.

   “Ravenna served as the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 402 until the latter's collapse in 476; thereafter it was the capital of the Ostrogothic Kingdom and then of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna until the last exarch was executed by the Lombards in 751.”

3. A city, the county seat of Portage County, Ohio, United States, named after the Italian city.