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Avezzano

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Avezzano (or; Marsicano: Avezzàne) is a city and comune with a population of about 42,500 inhabitants, situated in the Abruzzo region, province of L'Aquila. [1]

79 relations: Abruzzo, Ada Gentile, Aequi, Alba Fucens, Albe (Massa d'Albe), Alessandro Torlonia, 2nd Prince of Civitella-Cesi, Antenna farm, Argentina, Ariulf of Spoleto, Avezzano Calcio, Avezzano Cathedral, Ayacucho, Bartholomew the Apostle, Battle of Tagliacozzo, Belén, Catamarca, Belgium, Carsoli, Castelnuovo, Avezzano, Catholic University of Leuven (1835–1968), Centre-right in Italy, Cese dei Marsi, Charlemagne, Charles I of Anjou, Civitella Roveto, Claudius, Climate classification, Colonna family, Comune, Conradin, Duchy of Spoleto, Duke of Swabia, Felice Orlandi, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Fucine Lake, Gastald, Gianni Letta, Google Maps, Gross domestic product, Italian National Institute of Statistics, Italy, Janus, L'Aquila, Late Middle Ages, Lino Guanciale, Luco dei Marsi, Marcantonio Colonna, Mario Pescante, Marsi, Marsica, Mediterranean climate, ..., Micron Technology, Monte Velino, Neapolitan language, Orsini family, Orsini-Colonna Castle, Ovindoli, Paleolithic, Paola Concia, Papal States, Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise, Peru, Pescara, Pescina, Prehistory, Province of L'Aquila, Roman Catholic Diocese of Avezzano, Rome, San Pelino, Santa María, Catamarca, Sirente-Velino Regional Park, Sister city, Stadio dei Marsi, Tagliacozzo, Telespazio, Via Tiburtina, Via Valeria, Virginio Orsini, Vito Taccone, 1915 Avezzano earthquake. Expand index (29 more) »

Abruzzo

Abruzzo (Aquiliano: Abbrùzzu) is a region of Southern Italy, with an area of 10,763 square km (4,156 sq mi) and a population of 1.2 million.

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Ada Gentile

Ada Gentile (born 26 July 1947) is an Italian pianist and composer.

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Aequi

Location of the Aequi (Equi) in central Italy, 5th century BC. The Aequi (Αἴκουοι and Αἴκοι) were an Italic tribe on a stretch of the Apennine Mountains to the east Latium in central of Italy who appear in the early history of ancient Rome.

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Alba Fucens

Alba Fucens was an ancient Italic town occupying a lofty location (1,000 m) at the foot of the Monte Velino, c. 6.5 km north of Avezzano, Abruzzo, central Italy.

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Albe (Massa d'Albe)

Albe is a frazione in the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy.

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Alessandro Torlonia, 2nd Prince of Civitella-Cesi

Prince Don Alessandro Raffaele Torlonia, Prince of Fucino, Prince of Civitella-Cesi, Duke of Ceri (January 1, 1800 – February 7, 1886) was an Italian nobleman of the House of Torlonia.

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Antenna farm

Antenna farm or satellite dish farm or just dish farm are terms used to describe an area dedicated to television or radio telecommunications transmitting or receiving antenna equipment, such as C, Ku or Ka band satellite dish antennas, UHF/VHF/AM/FM transmitter towers or mobile cell towers.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.

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Ariulf of Spoleto

Ariulf (died 602) was the second Duke of Spoleto from 592 (the death of Faroald) to his own death.

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Avezzano Calcio

Avezzano Calcio Ar.

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Avezzano Cathedral

Avezzano Cathedral (Cattedrale di Avezzano; Cattedrale di San Bartolomeo) is a Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to Saint Bartholomew in Avezzano, Abruzzo, Italy.

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Ayacucho

Ayacucho (Ayacuchu), is the capital city of Huamanga Province, Ayacucho Region, Peru.

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Bartholomew the Apostle

Bartholomew (translit; Bartholomew Israelite origin Bartholomaeus; ⲃⲁⲣⲑⲟⲗⲟⲙⲉⲟⲥ) was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus from ancient Jewish Israel.

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Battle of Tagliacozzo

The Battle of Tagliacozzo was fought on 23 August 1268 between the Ghibellines supporters of Conradin of Hohenstaufen and the army of Charles of Anjou.

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Belén, Catamarca

Belén is a small town in the province of Catamarca, Argentina.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Carsoli

Carsoli (Marsicano: Carsòi) is a town and comune in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo (central Italy).

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Castelnuovo, Avezzano

The frazione Castelnuovo is a small town established in the Middle Ages in the Avezzano comune, 8 kilometre from Avezzano itself, within the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo region, in the Apennine Mountains within the centre (geometry) of Italy.

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Catholic University of Leuven (1835–1968)

The Catholic University of Leuven (of Louvain in French, and historically in English), founded as the Catholic University of Mechelen in 1834 and transferred to the town of Leuven in 1835, was considered the largest, oldest and most prominent university in Belgium.

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Centre-right in Italy

The Centre-right appears in Italy for the first time in 1850 when the Historical Right leader Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour and the Historical Left one, Urbano Rattazzi, joined a coalition known as Connubio.

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Cese dei Marsi

Cese dei Marsi (Marsicano: Le Cese) is a frazione in the Avezzano comune, in the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy.

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Charlemagne

Charlemagne or Charles the Great (Karl der Große, Carlo Magno; 2 April 742 – 28 January 814), numbered Charles I, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Holy Roman Emperor from 800.

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Charles I of Anjou

Charles I (early 1226/12277 January 1285), commonly called Charles of Anjou, was a member of the royal Capetian dynasty and the founder of the second House of Anjou.

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Civitella Roveto

Civitella Roveto (Abruzzese: Civëtèllë) is a comune and town in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of central Italy.

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Claudius

Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; 1 August 10 BC – 13 October 54 AD) was Roman emperor from 41 to 54.

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Climate classification

Climate classification systems are ways of classifying the world's climates.

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Colonna family

The Colonna family, also known as Sciarrillo or Sciarra, is an Italian noble family.

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Comune

The comune (plural: comuni) is a basic administrative division in Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.

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Conradin

Conrad (25 March 1252 – 29 October 1268), called the Younger or the Boy, but usually known by the diminutive Conradin (Konradin, Corradino), was the Duke of Swabia (1254–1268, as Conrad IV), King of Jerusalem (1254–1268, as Conrad III), and King of Sicily (1254–1258, de jure until 1268, as Conrad II).

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Duchy of Spoleto

The Duchy of Spoleto (Italian: Ducato di Spoleto, Latin: Dŭcā́tus Spōlḗtĭī) was a Lombard territory founded about 570 in central Italy by the Lombard dux Faroald.

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Duke of Swabia

The Dukes of Swabia were the rulers of the Duchy of Swabia during the Middle Ages.

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Felice Orlandi

Felice Orlandi (18 September 1925 – 21 May 2003) was an Italian-born American actor, known for roles in films such as The Pusher (1960), Bullitt (1968), Catch-22 (1970) and The Driver (1978).

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Francesco di Giorgio Martini

Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439–1501) was an Italian architect, painter, writer, and sculptor.

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Fucine Lake

The Fucine Lake (Lago Fucino or Lago di Celano) was a large endorheic lake in central Italy, stretching from Avezzano in the northwest to Ortucchio in the southeast, and touching Trasacco in the southwest.

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Gastald

A gastald (Latin gastaldus or castaldus, Italian gastaldo or guastaldo) was a Lombard official in charge of some portion of the royal demesne (a gastaldate, gastaldia or castaldia) with civil, martial, and judicial powers.

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Gianni Letta

Gianni Letta (born 15 April 1935) is an Italian journalist and politician.

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Google Maps

Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google.

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Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a period (quarterly or yearly) of time.

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Italian National Institute of Statistics

The Italian National Institute of Statistics (Italian: Istituto Nazionale di Statistica; Istat) is the main producer of official statistics in Italy.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Janus

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus (IANVS (Iānus)) is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings.

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L'Aquila

L'Aquila (meaning "The Eagle") is a city and comune in Southern Italy, both the capital city of the Abruzzo region and of the Province of L'Aquila.

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Late Middle Ages

The Late Middle Ages or Late Medieval Period was the period of European history lasting from 1250 to 1500 AD.

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Lino Guanciale

Lino Guanciale (born 21 May 1979 in Avezzano) is an Italian actor.

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Luco dei Marsi

Luco dei Marsi is a comune and town in the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy.

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Marcantonio Colonna

Marcantonio II Colonna (sometimes spelled Marc'Antonio; 1535 – August 1, 1584), Duke of Tagliacozzo and Duke and Prince of Paliano, was an Italian aristocrat who served as a Viceroy of Sicily in the service of the Spanish Crown, Spanish general, and Captain General of the Church.

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Mario Pescante

Mario Pescante (born July 7, 1938 in Avezzano) is an Italian politician and entrepreneur.

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Marsi

Marsi is the Latin exonym for an Italic people of ancient Italy, whose chief centre was Marruvium, on the eastern shore of Lake Fucinus (which was drained for agricultural land in the late 19th century).

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Marsica

Marsica is a geographical area in the Abruzzo, central Italy, including 37 comuni in the province of L'Aquila, the most important of which is Avezzano.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate or dry summer climate is characterized by rainy winters and dry summers.

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Micron Technology

Micron Technology, Inc. is an American global corporation based in Boise, Idaho.

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Monte Velino

Monte Velino is a mountain (2,487 m) in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, central Italy, part of the Abruzzo Apennines.

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Neapolitan language

Neapolitan (autonym: (’o n)napulitano; napoletano) is a Romance language of the Italo-Dalmatian group spoken across much of southern Italy, except for southern Calabria and Sicily.

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Orsini family

The Orsini family is an Italian noble family; it was one of the most influential princely families in medieval Italy and renaissance Rome.

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Orsini-Colonna Castle

The Orsini-Colonna castle (Italian for Castello Orsini-Colonna) is a castle in Avezzano, Province of L'Aquila (Abruzzo).

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Ovindoli

Ovindoli (Abruzzese: Dvinnërë) is a village and comune of the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of central Italy.

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Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic is a period in human prehistory distinguished by the original development of stone tools that covers c. 95% of human technological prehistory.

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Paola Concia

Anna Paola Concia (born 4 July 1963; Avezzano) is an Italian politician and gay rights activist.

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Papal States

The Papal States, officially the State of the Church (Stato della Chiesa,; Status Ecclesiasticus; also Dicio Pontificia), were a series of territories in the Italian Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the Pope, from the 8th century until 1870.

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Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise

Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise (National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, often cited under its previous name, Abruzzo National Park) is an Italian national park founded in 1922.

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Peru

Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.

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Pescara

Pescara (Abruzzese: Pescàrë; Pescarese: Piscàrë) is the capital city of the Province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy.

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Pescina

Pescina is a township and comune in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, central Italy.

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Prehistory

Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools 3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of writing systems.

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Province of L'Aquila

The Province of L'Aquila (Provincia dell'Aquila) is the largest, most mountainous and least densely populated province of the Abruzzo region of Southern Italy.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Avezzano

The Diocese of Avezzano (Dioecesis Marsorum) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in central Italy, carrying this name since 1986.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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San Pelino

The frazione San Pelino is a medieval town in the Avezzano comune.

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Santa María, Catamarca

Santa María is a city in the province of Catamarca, Argentina.

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Sirente-Velino Regional Park

The Sirente-Velino Regional Park (Italian: Parco regionale naturale del Sirente Velino) is a regional park in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, central Italy.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Stadio dei Marsi

Stadio dei Marsi is a stadium in Avezzano, Italy.

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Tagliacozzo

Tagliacozzo (Marsicano: Tajacózzo) is a town and comune in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, central Italy.

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Telespazio

Telespazio Spa is a European spaceflight services company.

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Via Tiburtina

Via Tiburtina is an ancient road in Italy leading east-northeast from Rome to Tivoli (Latin, Tibur) and then on to Pescara (Latin, Aternum).

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Via Valeria

The Via Valeria was an ancient Roman road of Italy, the continuation north-eastwards of the Via Tiburtina.

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Virginio Orsini

Gentile Virginio Orsini (c. 1434 – 8 January 1497) was an Italian condottiero and vassal of the papal throne and the Kingdom of Naples, mainly remembered as the powerful head of the Orsini family during its feud with Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia).

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Vito Taccone

Vito Taccone (6 May 1940 – 15 October 2007) was an Italian road cyclist.

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1915 Avezzano earthquake

The 1915 Avezzano earthquake occurred on 13 January in central Italy at.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avezzano

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