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  • to the area of Mount Vesuvius, near modern-day Naples. His chief aides were gladiators from Gaul and Germania, named Crixus, Castus, Gannicus, and Oenomaus ...
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  • Jean Froissart, Christine de Pisan, René I of Naples and Geoffrey Chaucer, among many others. Principal works of Guillaume de Machaut: ...
    12 KB (1,975 words) - 20:06, 20 June 2024
  • The first Angevin king was Charles I of Hungary, born in Naples. He implemented considerable economic reforms, and defeated the remaining opposition ...
    27 KB (4,121 words) - 21:27, 6 June 2024
  • based on a manuscript printed at Naples in 1529 and recently rediscovered in the library of "an ancient Catholic family in the north of ...
    13 KB (1,897 words) - 16:20, 25 January 2023
  • Crown, when it passed to the Angevin dynasty of Naples through marriage; under the Angevins the towns became virtually independent republics. Upon ...
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  • and Afonso de Paiva were sent via Barcelona, Naples, and Rhodes, into Alexandria, and from there to Aden, Hormuz, and India, which gave credence ...
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  • *Santi Apostoli in Naples - Filamarino Altar *Sant'Andrea delle Fratte *Oratorio dei Filippini *Collegio de Propaganda Fide *Santa Maria ...
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  • Globe artichokes are known to have been cultivated at Naples around the middle of the ninth century, and are said to have been introduced to ...
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  • icilies_1738.gif|22px]]Kingdom of Naples and Sicily [[Image:Sardegna1730%28TZ%29.jpg|22px]]Kingdom of Sardinia }} The Seven Years War (1756-1763 ...
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  • at the church of Sant'Angelo a Nilo in Naples. In the same period, he executed the relief of the Feast of Herod and the statues of Faith and ...
    15 KB (2,139 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
  • to union with the Bourbon-ruled kingdom of Naples as the kingdom of the Two ... utilized Piedmontese, and the Bourbons of Naples primarily spoke Neopolitan. ...
    34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
  • later deserted in order to save his kingdom of Naples, leaving Napoleon's former stepson, Eugene de Beauharnais, in command. In the following ...
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  • a second century Roman copy of a Hellenistic work (Naples)]] The Titans' role as Elder Gods was overthrown by a race of younger gods, the ...
    15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
  • were locked away in the Secret Museum in Naples, Italy and what could not be removed was covered and cordoned off so as to not corrupt the sensibilities ...
    30 KB (4,376 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
  • of recovering Milan and the Kingdom of Naples. Leo at once formed a new ... faith. Leo agreed to invest Charles with Naples, to crown him emperor, and ...
    28 KB (4,490 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
  • Papacy (under Pope Pius V), Spain (including Naples, Sicily and Sardinia), the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Savoy, the Knights Hospitaller and the ...
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  • Brunssum in the Netherlands, Joint Force Command Naples in Italy, and Joint Command Lisbon, all multinational headquarters with many nations represented ...
    52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
  • in Piedigrotta, a district two miles from old Naples, near the Mergellina harbor, on the road heading north along the coast to Pozzuoli. The site ...
    15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
  • Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (November 30, 1817 – November 1, 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician ...
    16 KB (2,291 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
  • Nero greeted Tiridates at Neapolis (Naples) in October, sending a state chariot to carry the visitor over the last few miles. No one was allowed ...
    29 KB (4,494 words) - 03:48, 1 May 2023

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