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Ascoli Satriano

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Church of San Rocco. Ascoli Satriano (Pugliese: Àsculë) is a town and comune in the province of Foggia in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. [1]

30 relations: Apulia, Asculum, Battle of Asculum, Biagio Ciotto, Bombing of Foggia, Byzantine Empire, Comune, Daunians, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Earthquake, Feudalism, Italian Fascism, Italian National Institute of Statistics, Italo-Norman, Italy, James Joyce, Livy, Neapolitan language, Plague (disease), Plutarch, Polybius, Province of Foggia, Saracen, Sharecropping, Sulla, Tavoliere delle Puglie, Typhus, Ulysses (novel), Western Roman Empire, World War I.

Apulia

Apulia (Puglia; Pùglia; Pulia; translit) is a region of Italy in Southern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea to the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Òtranto and Gulf of Taranto to the south.

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Asculum

Asculum, also known as Ausculum, was the ancient name of two Italian cities.

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Battle of Asculum

The Battle of Asculum took place in 279 BC between the Roman Republic under the command of the consuls Publius Decius Mus and Publius Sulpicius Saverrio and the forces of king Pyrrhus of Epirus.

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Biagio Ciotto

Biagio "Billy" Ciotto is an American politician.

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Bombing of Foggia

The Bombing of Foggia in World War II took place on several occasions in 1943, by Allied aircraft.

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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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Comune

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

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Daunians

The Daunians (Daúnioi; Daunii) were an Iapygian tribe which inhabited northern Apulia in classical antiquity.

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Διονύσιος Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἁλικαρνασσεύς, Dionysios Alexandrou Halikarnasseus, "Dionysios son of Alexandros of Halikarnassos"; c. 60 BCafter 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus.

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Earthquake

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Feudalism

Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries.

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Italian Fascism

Italian Fascism (fascismo italiano), also known simply as Fascism, is the original fascist ideology as developed in Italy.

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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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Italo-Norman

The Italo-Normans, or Siculo-Normans when referring to Sicily and Southern Italy, are the Italian-born descendants of the first Norman conquerors to travel to southern Italy in the first half of the eleventh century.

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Italy

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

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet.

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Livy

Titus Livius Patavinus (64 or 59 BCAD 12 or 17) – often rendered as Titus Livy, or simply Livy, in English language sources – was a Roman historian.

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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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Plague (disease)

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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Plutarch

Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarkhos,; c. CE 46 – CE 120), later named, upon becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, (Λούκιος Μέστριος Πλούταρχος) was a Greek biographer and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia.

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Polybius

Polybius (Πολύβιος, Polýbios; – BC) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic period noted for his work which covered the period of 264–146 BC in detail.

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Province of Foggia

The Province of Foggia (Provincia di Foggia; Foggiano: provìnge de Fogge) is a province in the Apulia (Puglia) region of southern Italy.

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Saracen

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

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Sharecropping

Sharecropping is a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.

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Sulla

Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (c. 138 BC – 78 BC), known commonly as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman.

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Tavoliere delle Puglie

The Tavoliere seen from the Gargano promontory. The Tavoliere delle Puglie (Italian: "Table of the Apulias") is a plain in northern Apulia, southern Italy, occupying nearly a half of the Capitanata traditional region.

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Typhus

Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus and murine typhus.

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Ulysses (novel)

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce.

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Western Roman Empire

In historiography, the Western Roman Empire refers to the western provinces of the Roman Empire at any one time during which they were administered by a separate independent Imperial court, coequal with that administering the eastern half, then referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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References

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

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