Custoza

Custoza –tôtˈtsä [key], village, Venetia, N Italy, near Verona. It was the scene of an Austrian victory over Sardinia in 1848 (see Risorgimento) and of an Austrian victory over Italy in 1866 (see Austro-Prussian War).

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