A port city in northeastern Sicily on the Strait of Messina

Usage examples of messina.

New York correspondents of the Banca Commerciale Italiana fifty thousand dollars, and have instructions cabled to the Messina branch of that bank to pay the sum to the written order of John Merrick.

Messina had encouraged him, as he did all the comedians, to time his set precisely to minimize the possibility of being edited.

The Count of Messina, after a protracted interdiction of his trade by sea and several long-drawn-out and very destructive cannonadings of his harbor defenses by the allied fleets, had raised his vassals and thrown out the Spanish-Moorish officials and garrison, then declared Messina open to the forces of Pope Sicola and His Holiness's supporters.

Yonder, a few miles away, shone the harbour and the streets of Messina, and many a gleaming point along the island coast, strand-touching or high above, signalled the homes of men.

With Messina as its ultimate objective, the Eighth Army was to advance northward on either side of Mount Etna.

Or there is Reggio di Calabria, in the straits of Messina, but that is a huge place and so far I have never been there.