Magenta

Zell's Condensed Dictionary · 1879 · p. 29

(mah-jain'tah,) a town of N. Italy, in Lombardy, p. Pavia, 12 m. S. of Milan, near which was fought a great battle in 1859, bet. the French-Sard in i an army and the Austrians, the latter sustaining a decisive defeat. Pop. 4,000. See MACMAHON. [s. 567]