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Melfi

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Melfi (Lucano: Mèlfe) is a town and comune in the Vulture area of the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. [1]

85 relations: A.S. Melfi, Aglianico del Vulture, Allies of World War II, Ancient Rome, Andrea Doria, Anthony Franciosa, Apulia, Aquilonia, Campania, Aragon, Ascoli Satriano, Barilla Group, Baroque, Basilicata, Brigandage in southern Italy after 1861, Campania, Candela, Apulia, Capetian House of Anjou, Caracciolo, Carmine Crocco, Castle of Melfi, Charles II of Naples, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Comune, Constitutions of Melfi, County of Apulia and Calabria, Denominazione di origine controllata, Doria (family), Europe, Fabrizio Ruffo, Fascism, Feudalism, Fiat 500X, Fiat Automobiles, Fiat Grande Punto, Francesco Saverio Nitti, Francis I of France, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, Franco Venturi, Frazione, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Gambero Rosso, House of Bourbon, Italian unification, Italo-Norman, Italy, Jeep Renegade (BU), Kingdom of Naples, Kingdom of Sicily, Lacedonia, Lancia Ypsilon, ..., Lavello, Lombards, Luca Pinelli, Lucania, Lucanians, Magneti Marelli, Marron glacé, Mary of Hungary, Queen of Naples, Middle Ages, Monte Vulture, Monteverde, Campania, Neapolitan language, Nicholas of Tolentino, Odet of Foix, Viscount of Lautrec, Parthenopean Republic, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Prime Minister of Italy, Prince of Melfi, Province of Avellino, Province of Foggia, Province of Potenza, Rapolla, Rionero in Vulture, Robert Guiscard, Rocchetta Sant'Antonio, Samnium, Sanfedismo, Tower International, Ursula Hirschmann, Venosa, Vulture (region), Western Roman Empire, William Iron Arm, World War II, 1930 Irpinia earthquake. Expand index (35 more) »

A.S. Melfi

Associazione Sportiva Melfi is an Italian association football club, based in Melfi, Basilicata.

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Aglianico del Vulture

Aglianico del Vulture is an Italian red wine based on the Aglianico grape and produced in the Vulture area of Basilicata.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945).

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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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Andrea Doria

Andrea Doria (30 November 146625 November 1560) was an Italian condottiero and admiral of the Republic of Genoa.

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Anthony Franciosa

Anthony Franciosa (born Anthony George Papaleo, October 25, 1928 – January 19, 2006), usually billed as Tony Franciosa during the height of his career, was an American film, TV and stage actor.

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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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Aquilonia, Campania

Aquilonia is a town and comune in the province of Avellino, part of the Campania region of southern Italy.

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Aragon

Aragon (or, Spanish and Aragón, Aragó or) is an autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon.

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Ascoli Satriano

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.

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Barilla Group

Barilla S.p.A. (Barilla G. e R. Fratelli Società per Azioni) is an Italian food company.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a highly ornate and often extravagant style of architecture, art and music that flourished in Europe from the early 17th until the late 18th century.

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Basilicata

Basilicata, also known with its ancient name Lucania, is a region in Southern Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Apulia (Puglia) to the north and east, and Calabria to the south.

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Brigandage in southern Italy after 1861

Brigandage in Southern Italy had existed in some form since ancient times.

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Campania

Campania is a region in Southern Italy.

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Candela, Apulia

Candela (Pugliese: Cannéla) is a town and comune in the province of Foggia in the Apulia region of southeast Italy.

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Capetian House of Anjou

The Capetian House of Anjou was a royal house and cadet branch of the direct French House of Capet, part of the Capetian dynasty.

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Caracciolo

Caracciolo is the surname of a famous noble family from Southern Italy, represented by the House of Caracciolo.

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Carmine Crocco

Carmine Crocco, known as Donatello or sometimes Donatelli (5 June 1830 – 18 June 1905), was an Italian brigand.

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Castle of Melfi

The Castle of Melfi in Basilicata is a monument owned by the Italian State and one of the most important medieval castles in Southern Italy.

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Charles II of Naples

Charles II, also known as Charles the Lame (Charles le Boiteux; Carlo lo Zoppo; 1254 – 5 May 1309), was King of Naples, Count of Provence and Forcalquier (1285–1309), Prince of Achaea (1285–1289), and Count of Anjou and Maine (1285–1290); he also styled himself King of Albania and claimed the Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1285.

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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles V (Carlos; Karl; Carlo; Karel; Carolus; 24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was ruler of both the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and the Spanish Empire (as Charles I of Spain) from 1516, as well as of the lands of the former Duchy of Burgundy from 1506.

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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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Constitutions of Melfi

The Constitutions of Melfi, or Liber Augustalis, were a new legal code for the Kingdom of Sicily promulgated on 1 September 1231 by Emperor Frederick II.

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County of Apulia and Calabria

The County of Apulia and Calabria, later the Duchy of Apulia and Calabria, was a Norman country founded by William of Hauteville in 1042 in the territories of Gargano, Capitanata, Apulia, Campania, and Vulture.

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Denominazione di origine controllata

Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC;; English: controlled designation of origin) is a quality assurance label for Italian wines.

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Doria (family)

Doria, originally de Auria (from de filiis Auriae), meaning "the sons of Auria", and then de Oria or d'Oria, is the name of an old and extremely wealthy Genoese family who played a major role in the history of the Republic of Genoa and in Italy, from the 12th century to the 16th century.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Fabrizio Ruffo

Fabrizio Ruffo (16 September 1744 – 13 December 1827) was an Italian cardinal and politician, who led the popular anti-republican Sanfedismo movement (whose members were known as the Sanfedisti).

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Fascism

Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian ultranationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce, which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.

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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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Fiat 500X

The Fiat 500X (Type 334) is a front engined five door hatchback crossover sport utility vehicle (SUV) manufactured and marketed by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, since its debut at the 2014 Paris Motor Show.

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Fiat Automobiles

Fiat Automobiles S.p.A. (originally FIAT, lit) is the largest automobile manufacturer in Italy, a subsidiary of FCA Italy S.p.A., which is part of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (previously Fiat S.p.A.). Fiat Automobiles was formed in January 2007 when Fiat reorganized its automobile business, and traces its history back to 1899 when the first Fiat automobile, the Fiat 4 HP, was produced.

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Fiat Grande Punto

The Fiat Grande Punto was a supermini car produced by the Italian manufacturer Fiat since 2005.

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Francesco Saverio Nitti

Francesco Saverio Vincenzo de Paolo Nitti (19 July 1868 – 20 February 1953) was an Italian economist and political figure.

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Francis I of France

Francis I (François Ier) (12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was the first King of France from the Angoulême branch of the House of Valois, reigning from 1515 until his death.

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Francis II of the Two Sicilies

Francis II (Francesco II, christened Francesco d'Assisi Maria Leopoldo, 16 January 1836 – 27 December 1894) was King of the Two Sicilies from 1859 to 1861.

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Franco Venturi

Franco Venturi (Rome, 1914 - Turin, December 14, 1994) was an Italian historian, essayist and journalist, a scholar of the Enlightenment in Italy and of the history of Russia, and an anti-fascist active in the Resistance.

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Frazione

"Frazione" (pl. frazioni) is the Italian name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere.

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Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

Frederick II (26 December 1194 – 13 December 1250; Fidiricu, Federico, Friedrich) was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 and King of Jerusalem from 1225.

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Gambero Rosso

Gambero Rosso is an Italian food and wine magazine and publishing group founded in 1986.

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House of Bourbon

The House of Bourbon is a European royal house of French origin, a branch of the Capetian dynasty.

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Italian unification

Italian unification (Unità d'Italia), or the Risorgimento (meaning "the Resurgence" or "revival"), was the political and social movement that consolidated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy in the 19th century.

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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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Jeep Renegade (BU)

The Jeep Renegade (BU/520) is a subcompact crossover SUV (mini SUV in Europe) produced by Jeep.

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Kingdom of Naples

The Kingdom of Naples (Regnum Neapolitanum; Reino de Nápoles; Regno di Napoli) comprised that part of the Italian Peninsula south of the Papal States between 1282 and 1816.

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Kingdom of Sicily

The Kingdom of Sicily (Regnum Siciliae, Regno di Sicilia, Regnu di Sicilia, Regne de Sicília, Reino de Sicilia) was a state that existed in the south of the Italian peninsula and for a time Africa from its founding by Roger II in 1130 until 1816.

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Lacedonia

Lacedonia (Irpinian: Cerònne) is a comune of 3,010 people in the province of Avellino, Italy, overlooking the Osento River, which flows into the Lago di San Pietro (Lake of Saint Peter), an artificial lake.

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Lancia Ypsilon

The Lancia Ypsilon is a supermini manufactured by Italian automaker Lancia, and is the marque's sole product offered for commercial sale.

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Lavello

Lavello (Potentino: Lavìdde) is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the region of Basilicata of southern Italy; it is located in the middle Ofanto valley.

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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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Luca Pinelli

Luca Pinelli (1542 – 1607) was an Italian jesuit and theologian.

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Lucania

Lucania (Leukanía) was an ancient area of Southern Italy.

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Lucanians

The Lucanians (Leukanoí; Lucani) were an Italic tribe living in Lucania, in what is now southern Italy, who spoke an Oscan language, a member of the Italic languages.

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Magneti Marelli

Magneti Marelli S.p.A. develops and manufactures high-tech components for the automotive industry.

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Marron glacé

A marron glacé (plural marrons glacés) is a confection, originating in southern France and northern Italy consisting of a chestnut candied in sugar syrup and glazed.

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Mary of Hungary, Queen of Naples

Mary of Hungary (c. 1257 – 25 March 1323), of the Árpád dynasty, was Queen consort of the Kingdom of Naples.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Monte Vulture

Mount Vulture (pronounced "Vooltooreh") is an extinct volcano located north of the city Potenza in the Basilicata region (Italy).

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Monteverde, Campania

Monteverde is a comune in the province of Avellino in Southern Italy.

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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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Nicholas of Tolentino

Nicholas of Tolentino (San Nicola da Tolentino, San Nicolás de Tolentino) (c. 1246September 10, 1305), known as the Patron of Holy Souls, was an Italian saint and mystic.

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Odet of Foix, Viscount of Lautrec

Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec (1485 – 15 August 1528) was a French military leader.

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Parthenopean Republic

The Parthenopean Republic (Repubblica Partenopea) was a French First Republic-supported republic in the territory of the Kingdom of Naples, formed during the French Revolutionary Wars after King Ferdinand IV fled before advancing French troops.

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Pasquale Festa Campanile

Pasquale Festa Campanile (28 July 1927 – 25 February 1986) was an Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist, mostly known as a prominent exponent of the commedia all'italiana genre.

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Prime Minister of Italy

The President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic (Italian: Presidente del Consiglio dei ministri della Repubblica Italiana), commonly referred to in Italy as Presidente del Consiglio, or informally as Premier and known in English as the Prime Minister of Italy, is the head of government of the Italian Republic.

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Prince of Melfi

The title of Prince of Melfi is an Italian noble title that was granted to Andrea Doria, a famous admiral, statesman and condottiere from the Republic of Genoa, in 1531 along with the lands of the country of Melfi by Charles V. The title was handed to his grandson Giovanni Andrea Doria upon Andrea's death.

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Province of Avellino

The Province of Avellino (Provincia di Avellino) is a province in the Campania region of Southern Italy.

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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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Province of Potenza

The Province of Potenza (Provincia di Potenza; Potentino: provìgnë dë Pùtenzë) is a province in the Basilicata region of Italy.

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Rapolla

Rapolla is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata.

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Rionero in Vulture

Rionero in Vulture is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata.

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Robert Guiscard

Robert Guiscard (– 17 July 1085) was a Norman adventurer remembered for the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily.

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Rocchetta Sant'Antonio

Rocchetta Sant'Antonio (Foggiano: La Rocca or La Ròcche) is a town and comune in the province of Foggia in the Apulia region of southeast Italy.

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Samnium

Samnium (Sannio) is a Latin exonym for a region of Southern Italy anciently inhabited by the Samnites.

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Sanfedismo

Sanfedismo (from Santa Fede, "Holy Faith" in Italian) was a popular anti-Republican movement, organized by Cardinal Fabrizio Ruffo, which mobilized peasants of the Kingdom of Naples against the Parthenopaean Republic in 1799, its aims culminating in the restoration of the Bourbon Kingdom of Naples under Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies.

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Tower International

Tower International is a global designer and producer of structural components and assemblies used by some major automotive vehicle manufacturers.

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Ursula Hirschmann

Ursula Hirschmann (2 September 1913 – 8 January 1991) was a German anti-fascist activist and an advocate of European federalism.

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Venosa

Venosa (Lucano: Venòse) is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, in the Vulture area.

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Vulture (region)

The Vulture (italic), also known as the Vulture-Melfese or Vulture-Alto Bradano is a geographical and historical region in the northern part of the province of Potenza, in the Basilicata region of Italy.

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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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William Iron Arm

William I of Hauteville (before 1010 – 1046), known as William Iron Arm, was a Norman adventurer who was the founder of the fortunes of the Hauteville family.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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1930 Irpinia earthquake

The 1930 Irpinia earthquake occurred at 00:08 UTC on 23 July, chiefly in an area known as Irpinia.

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References

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

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