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Fondi (Fundi) is a city and comune in the province of Latina, Lazio, central Italy, halfway between Rome and Naples. [1]

67 relations: Aedile, Alberto Moravia, Ancient Rome, Antipope Clement VII, Antoniazzo Romano, Appian Way, Armistice of Cassibile, Aurunci, Aurunci Mountains, Brigandage, Byzantine Empire, Cacus, Caetani, Charles VIII of France, Citrus, Colonna family, Comune, Cosmatesque, Dachau, Decumanus Maximus, Elsa Morante, Formia, Fruit, Garigliano, Germany, Giulia Gonzaga, Gothic architecture, Gothic War (535–554), Gulf of Gaeta, Hayreddin Barbarossa, Hercules, House of Carafa, Italian language, Italic peoples, Italy, Lago di Fondi, Latin War, Lazio, Loggia, Lombards, Malaria, Mangalia, Monti Ausoni, Naples, Normans, Onorato I Caetani, Papal conclave, Papal States, Poland, Pontine Islands, ..., Pope Boniface VIII, Pope Urban VI, Prospero Colonna, Province of Latina, Romania, Rome, S.S. Racing Club Fondi, Saracen, Stigliano, Suleiman the Magnificent, Two Women, Tyrrhenian Sea, Vegetable, Vitruvius Vaccus, Volsci, Western Schism, Wodzisław Śląski. Expand index (17 more) »

Aedile

Aedile (aedīlis, from aedes, "temple edifice") was an office of the Roman Republic.

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Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia (November 28, 1907 – September 26, 1990), born Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian novelist and journalist.

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Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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Antipope Clement VII

Robert of Geneva (Robert de Genève) (1342 – 16 September 1394) was elected to the papacy as Clement VII (Clément VII) by the French cardinals who opposed Urban VI, and was the first antipope residing in Avignon, France.

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Antoniazzo Romano

Antoniazzo Romano, born Antonio di Benedetto Aquilo degli Aquili (c. 1430 – c. 1510) was an Italian Early Renaissance painter, the leading figure of the Roman school during the 15th century.

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Appian Way

The Appian Way (Latin and Italian: Via Appia) is one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic.

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Armistice of Cassibile

The Armistice of Cassibile was an armistice signed on 3 September 1943 by Walter Bedell Smith and Giuseppe Castellano, and made public on 8 September, between the Kingdom of Italy and the Allies during World War II.

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Aurunci

The Aurunci were an Italic tribe that lived in southern Italy from around the 1st millennium BC.

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Aurunci Mountains

The Monti Aurunci or Aurunci Mountains is a mountain range of southern Lazio, in central Italy.

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Brigandage

Brigandage is the life and practice of highway robbery and plunder.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire and Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, which had been founded as Byzantium).

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Cacus

In Roman mythology, Cacus was a fire-breathing giant and the son of Vulcan.

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Caetani

Caetani, or Gaetani, is the name of an Italian noble family which played a great part in the history of Pisa and of Rome, principally via their close links to the papacy.

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Charles VIII of France

Charles VIII, called the Affable, l'Affable (30 June 1470 – 7 April 1498), was a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1483 to his death in 1498.

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Citrus

Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae.

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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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Cosmatesque

Cosmatesque, or Cosmati, is a style of geometric decorative inlay stonework typical of the architecture of Medieval Italy, and especially of Rome and its surroundings, and derived from that of the Byzantine Empire.

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Dachau

Dachau is a town in Upper Bavaria, in the southern part of Germany.

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Decumanus Maximus

In Roman city planning, a decumanus was an east-west-oriented road in a Roman city, castrum (military camp), or colonia.

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Elsa Morante

Elsa Morante (18 August 191225 November 1985) was an Italian novelist, best known for her novel La storia (History), which appears in the Bokklubben World Library, a list of the hundred best books of all time.

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Formia

Formia is a city and comune in the province of Latina, on the Mediterranean coast of Lazio (Italy).

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

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Garigliano

The Garigliano is a river in central Italy.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Giulia Gonzaga

Giulia Gonzaga (1513 – 16 April 1566) was an Italian noblewoman of the Renaissance.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that flourished in Europe during the High and Late Middle Ages.

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Gothic War (535–554)

The Gothic War between the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Emperor Justinian I and the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy took place from 535 until 554 in the Italian peninsula, Dalmatia, Sardinia, Sicily and Corsica.

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Gulf of Gaeta

The Gulf of Gaeta is a body of water on the west coast of Italy and part of the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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Hayreddin Barbarossa

Hayreddin Barbarossa (Arabic: Khayr ad-Din Barbarus خير الدين بربروس), (Ariadenus Barbarussa), or Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha (Barbaros Hayreddin (Hayrettin) Paşa or Hızır Hayreddin (Hayrettin) Paşa; also Hızır Reis before being promoted to the rank of Pasha and becoming the Kapudan Pasha), born Khizr or Khidr (Turkish: Hızır; c. 1478 – 4 July 1546), was an Ottoman admiral of the fleet who was born on the island of Lesbos and died in Constantinople, the Ottoman capital.

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Hercules

Hercules is a Roman hero and god.

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House of Carafa

The House of Carafa is a noble Neapolitan family of Italian nobles, clergy, and men of arts, known from the 12th century.

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Italian language

Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.

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Italic peoples

The Italic peoples are an Indo-European ethnolinguistic group identified by speaking Italic languages.

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Italy

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

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Lago di Fondi

Lake Fondi (Lago di Fondi, Lacus Fundanus, Lacus Amyclanus) is a brackish lake about to the southeast of Rome in the Province of Latina, Lazio, Italy, in the region called Sud or "South" Pontino, the western end of which is the Piana di Fondi, "Plain of Fondi".

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Latin War

The (Second) Latin War (340–338 BC)The Romans customarily dated events by noting which consuls held office that year, The Latin War broke out in the year in which Titus Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus and Publius Decius Mus were consuls, and ended when Lucius Furius Camillus and Gaius Maenius were consuls.

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Lazio

Lazio (Latium) is one of the 20 administrative regions of Italy.

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Loggia

A loggia is an architectural feature which is a covered exterior gallery or corridor usually on an upper level, or sometimes ground level.

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Lombards

The Lombards or Longobards (Langobardi, Longobardi, Longobard (Western)) were a Germanic people who ruled most of the Italian Peninsula from 568 to 774.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease affecting humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoans (a group of single-celled microorganisms) belonging to the Plasmodium type.

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Mangalia

Mangalia (Mankalya, ancient Callatis (Κάλλατις/Καλλατίς; other historical names: Pangalia, Panglicara, Tomisovara) is a city and a port on the coast of the Black Sea in the south-east of Constanța County, Romania. The municipality of Mangalia also administers several summer time seaside resorts: Cap Aurora, Jupiter, Neptun, Olimp, Saturn, Venus.

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Monti Ausoni

The Monti Ausoni or Ausoni Mountains is a mountain range in southern Lazio, in central Italy.

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Naples

Naples (Napoli, Napule or; Neapolis; lit) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest municipality in Italy after Rome and Milan.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.

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Onorato I Caetani

Onorato I Caetani (1336 – 20 April 1400) was an Italian nobleman, who was the count of Fondi from 1348 and the Great Conestable of the Kingdom of Naples also from 1348.

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Papal conclave

A papal conclave is a meeting of the College of Cardinals convened to elect a Bishop of Rome, also known as the Pope.

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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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Poland

Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.

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Pontine Islands

The Pontine Islands (Isole Ponziane) are an archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the west coast of Italy.

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Pope Boniface VIII

Pope Boniface VIII (Bonifatius VIII; born Benedetto Caetani (c. 1230 – 11 October 1303), was Pope from 24 December 1294 to his death in 1303. He organized the first Catholic "jubilee" year to take place in Rome and declared that both spiritual and temporal power were under the pope's jurisdiction, and that kings were subordinate to the power of the Roman pontiff. Today, he is probably best remembered for his feuds with King Philip IV of France, who caused the Pope's death, and Dante Alighieri, who placed the pope in the Eighth Circle of Hell in his Divine Comedy, among the simoniacs.

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Pope Urban VI

Urban VI (Urbanus VI; c. 1318 – 15 October 1389), born Bartolomeo Prignano, was Pope from 8 April 1378 to his death in 1389.

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Prospero Colonna

Prospero Colonna (1452–1523), sometimes referred to as Prosper Colonna, was an Italian condottiero in the service of the Papal States and the Holy Roman Empire during the Italian Wars.

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Province of Latina

The Province of Latina (Provincia di Latina) is a province in the Lazio region of Italy.

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Romania

Romania (România) is a sovereign state located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.

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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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S.S. Racing Club Fondi

S.S. Racing Club Fondi is an Italian association football club, based in Fondi, Lazio.

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Saracen

Saracen was a term widely used among Christian writers in Europe during the Middle Ages.

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Stigliano

Stigliano (Lucano: Stëgghiànë) is a town and comune in the province of Matera, in the Basilicata region of southern Italy.

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Suleiman the Magnificent

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Two Women

Two Women (La ciociara, roughly translated as "The Woman from Ciociaria") is a 1960 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica.

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Tyrrhenian Sea

The Tyrrhenian Sea (Mar Tirreno, Mer Tyrrhénienne, Mare Tirrenu, Mari Tirrenu, Mari Tirrenu, Mare Tirreno) is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy.

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Vegetable

Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans as food as part of a meal.

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Vitruvius Vaccus

Marius Vitruvius Vaccus (d. 330 BC) was a citizen of Fondi, and the leader of the revolt of the Fundani and Privernates against Rome in 330 BC.

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Volsci

The Volsci were an Italic tribe, well known in the history of the first century of the Roman Republic.

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Western Schism

The Western Schism, also called Papal Schism, Great Occidental Schism and Schism of 1378, was a split within the Catholic Church lasting from 1378 to 1417 in which two, since 1410 even three, men simultaneously claimed to be the true pope.

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Wodzisław Śląski

Wodzisław Śląski (Loslau, Vladislavia, Vladislav, Władźisłůw) is a town in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland with 50,493 inhabitants (2007).

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References

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

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