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Otranto (Salentino: Uṭṛàntu; Griko: Δερεντό, translit. Derentò; translit; Hydruntum) is a town and comune in the province of Lecce (Apulia, Italy), in a fertile region once famous for its breed of horses. [1]

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Abu'l-Qasim Ali ibn al-Hasan al-Kalbi

Abu'l-Qasim Ali ibn al-Hasan al-Kalbi (أبو القاسم علي بن الحسن الكلبي‎‎; Abū'l-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Kalbī), known to the Byzantine Greeks as Bolkasimos, was the fourth Emir of Sicily.

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Abulchares

Abulchares (Αβουλχαρέ, Apochara; died 1068) was a Byzantine general of Arab origin who served as the catepan of Italy from 1064 until his death.

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Achille Vianelli

Achille Vianelli or Vianelly (21 December 1803 – 2 April 1894) was an Italian painter of landscapes with genre scenes, often in watercolor.

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Action of 8 July 1716

This indecisive naval battle took place on 8 July 1716 during a Turkish attempt to capture the island of Corfu (Kerkyra), off the west coast of mainland Greece.

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Adriatic railway

The Adriatic railway (Italian: Ferrovia Adriatica) is the railroad from Ancona to Lecce that runs along the Adriatic Coast of Italy, following it almost all of the way.

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Ahimaaz ben Paltiel

Ahimaaz ben Paltiel (אחימעץ בן פלטיאל‎; 1017–1060) was an Graeco-Italian liturgical poet and author of a family chronicle.

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Al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Kalbi

Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Abi al-Husayn al-Kalbi (ﺍﻟﺤﺴﻦ ﺍﺑﻦ ﻋﻠﻲ ﺍﺑﻦ ﺍﺑﻲ ﺍﻟﺤﺴﻴﻦ الكلبي., al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn al-Kalbī), known in Byzantine sources as Boulchasenes (Βουλχάσενης) and Aboulchare (Ἀβουλχαρέ), was the first Kalbid Emir of Sicily.

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Al-Hasan ibn Ammar

Amīn al-Dawla Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAmmār, usually called simply Ibn Ammar in the Arabic sources, was an Arab commander and statesman for the Fatimid Caliphate.

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Alcibiades Diamandi

Alcibiades Diamandi (in Greek: Αλκιβιάδης Διαμάντης) (sometimes spelled Diamanti or Diamantis) (August 13, 1893 in Samarina, Greece – July 9, 1948 in Bucharest, Romania) was an Aromanian (Vlach) political figure of Greece, active during the First and Second World Wars in connection with the Italian occupation forces and Romania.

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Alessandro Cesarini

Alessandro Cesarini (died February 13, 1542), bishop of Pistoia, was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Alphabetical list of comunes of Italy

This is an alphabetical list of the 8,100 Italian comuni which existed following the 2009 merger of Campolongo al Torre with Tapogliano to form the new comune of Campolongo Tapogliano, and the redesignation of Rivanazzano as Rivanazzano Terme.

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Amaury VI of Montfort

Amaury VI de Montfort (1195–1241) was the son of the elder Simon de Montfort and Alice of Montmorency, and the brother of the younger Simon de Montfort.

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Angelo Carletti di Chivasso

Blessed Angelo Carletti di Chivasso was a noted moral theologian of the Order of Friars Minor; born at Chivasso in Piedmont, in 1411; and died at Coni, in Piedmont, in 1495.

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Angelos Pitzamanos

Angelos Pitzamanos (Άγγελος Πιτζαμάνος) (1467–1535) was a Greek Renaissance painter.

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Antonina (wife of Belisarius)

Antonina (Ἀντωνίνα, c. 495 – after 565) was a Byzantine patrikia and wife of the general Belisarius.

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Antonio de Ferraris

Antonio de Ferraris (Antonius de Ferraris, Ἀντώνιος Φεράρις; c. 1444 – 12 November 1517), also known by his epithet Galateo (Galateus, Γαλάτειος), was an Italian scholar of Greek ethnicity, academic, doctor and humanist.

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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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Atenulf (abbot of Montecassino)

Atenulf (died 30 March 1022) was the Abbot of Montecassino from 1011 until his death.

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Basil Theodorokanos

Basil III Theodorokanos or Theodorocanus (Βασίλειος Θεοδωροκάνος, Teodoro Cano) was the Byzantine Catepan of Italy from February to the Spring of 1043.

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Battle of Capo d'Orso

The Battle of Capo d'Orso, sometimes known as the Battle of Cava and the Battle of Amalfi was a naval engagement taking place over two days, on April 28 and April 29, 1528 when a French fleet inflicted a crushing defeat on the fleet of the Kingdom of Naples under Spanish control in the Gulf of Salerno, where the Spanish forces sailing southwards from their naval station in Naples trying to break the French blockade of the city meet the French fleet.

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Battle of the Volturnus (554)

The Battle of the Volturnus, also known as the Battle of Casilinum or Battle of Capua, was fought in 554 between an army of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire and a combined force of Franks and Alemanni.

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Black Army of Hungary

The Black Army (Fekete sereg, pronounced), also called the Black Legion/Regiment – possibly after their black armor panoply – is a common name given to the military forces serving under the reign of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.

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Blessed Gerard

The Blessed Gerard (c. 1040 – 3 September 1120) was a lay brother in the Benedictine order who was appointed as rector of the hospice in Jerusalem in 1080, and who, in the wake of the success of the First Crusade in 1099, became the founder of the Order of St John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitaller) (papal recognition in 1113).

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Bohemond I of Antioch

Bohemond I (3 March 1111) was the Prince of Taranto from 1089 to 1111 and the Prince of Antioch from 1098 to 1111.

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Bohemond II of Antioch

Bohemond II (1107/1108 – February 1130) was Prince of Taranto from 1111 to 1128 and Prince of Antioch from 1111/1119 to 1130.

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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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Byzantine–Norman wars

A number of wars between the Normans and the Byzantine Empire were fought from 1040 until 1185, when the last Norman invasion of the Byzantine Empire was defeated.

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Calimera

Calimera (Griko: Καλημέρα lit. 'good morning'), is a small town of 7,296 inhabitants in the Grecìa Salentina area of the Salento peninsula in Italy, located between Gallipoli and Otranto.

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Calypso-class spéronare

The Calypso class consisted of two spéronares constructed at Corfu, one in 1812 and one in 1813.

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Cannole

Cannole (Salentino: Cànnole or Cànnule; Griko: Κάννουλα translit. Cànnula) is a town and comune in the Italian province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy, in what could be the "tip" of the "heel" of Italy.

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Capo d'Otranto

Cape Palascìa, commonly known as Capo d'Otranto, is Italy's most easterly point.

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Carpignano Salentino

Carpignano Salentino (Salentino: Carpignanu) is a town and comune in the Italian province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy.

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Castro, Apulia

Castro (Salentino: Casciu) is a town and comune in the Italian province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-eastern Italy.

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Catepanate of Italy

The Catepanate (or Catapanate) of Italy (κατεπανίκιον Ἰταλίας Katepaníkion Italías) was a province of the Byzantine Empire, comprising mainland Italy south of a line drawn from Monte Gargano to the Gulf of Salerno.

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Cath Palug

Cath Palug, also Cath Paluc, Cath Balug, Cath Balwg, literally "Palug's cat", was a monstrous cat in Welsh legend, given birth in Gwynedd by the Henwen the pig of Cornwall; the cat was later to haunt the Isle of Anglesey, and said to have killed 180 warriors when Sir Kay went to hunt it on the island.

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Charles Edmonds

Air Vice Marshal Charles Humphrey Kingsman Edmonds, (20 April 1891 – 26 September 1954) was air officer of the Royal Air Force (RAF).

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China Jinping Underground Laboratory

The China Jinping Underground Laboratory is a deep underground laboratory in the Jinping Mountains of Sichuan, China.

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Chronological list of saints and blesseds in the 15th century

A list of 15th-century saints.

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Classical Age of the Ottoman Empire

The Classical Age of the Ottoman Empire (Klasik Çağ) concerns the history of the Ottoman Empire from the Conquest of Constantinople in 1453 until the second half of the sixteenth century, roughly the end of the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520-1566).

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Coastal towers in Salento

Salento is dotted with watchtowers sighting since always has been the subject of numerous attacks by different populations of the Mediterranean.

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Conspiracy of the Barons

The Conspiracy of the Barons was a revolution against Ferrante of Aragon, King of Naples by the Neapolitan aristocracy in 1485 and 1486.

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Copertino Castle

View of the bastions. The Copertino Castle is a castle in Apulia, southern Italy.

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County of Lecce

The County of Lecce was a semi-independent Italo-Norman entity in Apulia, in south-eastern Italy, which existed from 1055 until 1463.

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Cross-in-square

A cross-in-square or crossed-dome plan was the dominant architectural form of middle- and late-period Byzantine churches.

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Death by sawing

The term "death by sawing" indicates the act of sawing a living person in half, either sagitally (usually midsagitally), or transversely.

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Deer Cave (disambiguation)

Deer Cave may refer to.

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Deer Cave (Otranto)

The Deer Cave (Grotta dei Cervi - literally: Grotto of the stags) is a natural cave at the Salento coast near the town of Porto Badisco, around south of Otranto in Apulia, Italy.

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Duchy of Benevento

The Duchy of Benevento (after 774, Principality of Benevento) was the southernmost Lombard duchy in the Italian peninsula, centered on Benevento, a city in Southern Italy.

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Duke of Otranto

Duke of Otranto (Duc d'Otrante) is a hereditary title in the nobility of the First French Empire which was bestowed in 1809 by Emperor Napoleon I upon Joseph Fouché (1759-1820), a French statesman and Minister of Police.

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Elghammar Castle

Elghammar Castle is a castle in Södermanland County, Sweden.

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Elizabeth of Hungary

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, T.O.S.F. (Heilige Elisabeth von Thüringen, Árpád-házi Szent Erzsébet; 7 July 1207 – 17 November 1231), also known as Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia or Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia, was a princess of the Kingdom of Hungary, Landgravine of Thuringia, Germany, and a greatly venerated Catholic saint who was an early member of the Third Order of St. Francis, by which she is honored as its patroness.

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Enel

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Erdek

Erdek (formerly Artàke, Αρτάκη) is a town and district of Balıkesir Province in the Marmara region of Turkey.

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European ass

The European ass (Equus hydruntinus) is an extinct equine from the middle and late Pleistocene of Eurasia.

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Eustathios Palatinos

Eustathios Palatinos (Eustachius Palatinus, Eustachio Palatino) was the catepan of Italy from the autumn of 1045 to September 1046.

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Fasano

Fasano (Barese: Fascióne) is a town and comune in the Province of Brindisi, Apulia, southern Italy.

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Federico Martinengo

Federico Carlo Martinengo (18 July 1899 – 9 September 1943) was an Italian flying ace, credited with five aerial victories, during World War I, and an Italian admiral during World War II.

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Ferdinand Feichtner

Ferdinand Feichtner (* 3 February 1908 in Augsburg, Bavaria) was a German, Luftwaffe radar and radio intercept specialist, before and during the time of World War II and who became Chief Signals Officer of the Luftnachrichten Abteilung 352, the Signals intelligence agency, whose task was the mapping and interception of communication intelligence of Allied Air Forces in the Mediterranean area.

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Ferdinand I of Naples

Ferdinand I (2 June 1423 – 25 January 1494), also called Ferrante, was the King of Naples from 1458 to 1494.

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Flag of Uruguay

The national flag of Uruguay is one of the three official flags of Uruguay alongside with the Flag of Artigas and the Flag of the Treinta y Tres.

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Francesco Libetta

Francesco Libetta (born 16 October 1968) is an Italian pianist, composer and conductor.

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Francis de Geronimo

Saint Francesco de Geronimo (17 December 1642 - 11 May 1716) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Jesuits.

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Francis of Paola

Saint Francis of Paola, O.M. (or: Francesco di Paola or Saint Francis the Fire Handler; 27 March 1416 – 2 April 1507) was an Italian mendicant friar and the founder of the Roman Catholic Order of Minims.

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Franco-Ottoman alliance

The Franco-Ottoman alliance, also Franco-Turkish alliance, was an alliance established in 1536 between the king of France Francis I and the Turkish sultan of the Ottoman Empire Suleiman the Magnificent.

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Gaetano Cossa

Archbishop Gaetano Cossa, C.R. (died 1657) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Otranto (1635–1657).

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Gaudentius of Brescia

Saint Gaudentius (San Gaudenzio di Brescia; died 410) was Bishop of Brescia from 387 until 410, and was a theologian and author of many letters and sermons.

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Genoese towers in Corsica

The Genoese towers in Corsica (Tours génoises de Corse, Torri ghjinuvesi di a Corsica) are a series of coastal defences constructed by the Republic of Genoa between 1530 and 1620 to stem the attacks by Barbary pirates.

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Geoffrey of Taranto

Geoffrey, Godfrey, or Goffredo (died 1068x1072), called Lofredus in Latin, was an Italo-Norman military leader and the first Count of Taranto.

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Geoffrey, Count of Conversano

Geoffrey the Elder (died September 1100) was an Italo-Norman nobleman.

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Geography of Albania

The geography of Albania is defined by its location.

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Geography of Italy

Italy is located in southern Europe and comprises the long, boot-shaped Italian Peninsula, the southern side of Alps, the large plain of the Po Valley and some islands including Sicily and Sardinia.

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George Bardanes

George Bardanes (Γεώργιος Βαρδάνης, died. ca. 1240) was a Byzantine churchman and theologian from Athens.

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George Eyre

Sir George Eyre (before 1782–15 February 1839) was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, eventually rising to the rank of Vice-Admiral of the Red.

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George of Antioch

George of Antioch (died 1151 or 1152) was the first true ammiratus ammiratorum, successor of the great Christodulus.

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Giovanni Lopez de Andrade

Giovanni Lopez de Andrade, O.S.A. or Diego Lopez de Andrade (1569–1628) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Otranto (1623–1628).

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Giuseppe Marcinò

Giuseppe Marcinò (24 October 1589 – 16 November 1655) was an Italian priest and a member of the Order of Friars Minor - or Capuchins.

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Greek scholars in the Renaissance

The migration waves of Byzantine scholars and émigrés in the period following the Crusader sacking of Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, is considered by many scholars key to the revival of Greek and Roman studies that led to the development of the Renaissance humanism and science.

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Gregory of Dekapolis

Saint Gregory of Dekapolis or Gregory Dekapolites (Όσιος Γρηγόριος ο Δεκαπολίτης; before 797 – 20 November 842 or earlier) was a 9th-century Byzantine monk, notable for his miracle-working and his travels across the Byzantine world.

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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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Henry John Rous

Admiral The Honourable Henry John Rous (23 January 1795 – 19 June 1877) was an officer of the British Royal Navy, who served during the Napoleonic Wars, and was later a Member of Parliament and a leading figure in horse racing.

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Heraldic badges of the Royal Air Force

Heraldic badges of the Royal Air Force are the insignia of certain commands, squadrons, units, wings, groups, branches and stations within the Royal Air Force.

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Himara

Himara or Himarë (from Χειμάρρα, Himarra) is a bilingual region and municipality in southern Albania, part of Vlorë County.

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Himariote dialect

Himariote Greek (Χειμαρριώτικη διάλεκτος Kheimarrioutiki dialektos or Xειμαρριώτικα Kheimarrioutika) is a dialect of the Greek language that is mainly spoken by ethnic Greeks in the Himarë region of Albania.

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Hippolyte De La Rue

Air Commodore Hippolyte Ferdinand (Frank) De La Rue, CBE, DFC (13 March 1891 – 18 May 1977) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).

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History of the Byzantine Empire

This history of the Byzantine Empire covers the history of the Eastern Roman Empire from late antiquity until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD.

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History of the Jews in Apulia

The history of the Jews in Apulia (called in Italian Puglia) can be traced back over two thousand years.

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History of the Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire was founded by Osman I. As sultan Mehmed II conquered Constantinople (today named Istanbul) in 1453, the state grew into a mighty empire.

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HMS Apollo (1805)

HMS Apollo, the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to be named for the Greek god Apollo, was a fifth-rate frigate of the ''Lively'' class, carrying 38 guns, launched in 1805 and broken up in 1856.

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HMS Herald (1806)

HMS Herald was an 18-gun ship-sloop of the ''Cormorant'' class in the Royal Navy, launched in 1806 at Littlehampton.

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HMS Otranto

HMS Otranto was an armed merchant cruiser requisitioned by the Royal Navy when World War I began in 1914.

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HMS Parthian (N75)

HMS Parthian was the lead boat of the six Royal Navy s, all launched in 1929.

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HMS Weazel (1805)

HMS Weazel (frequently spelt Weazle, and occasionally Weasel) was a Royal Navy 18-gun, launched in 1805 at Topsham, Devon.

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Hugh, Count of Brienne

Hugh, Count of Brienne and Lecce (– 9 August 1296) was the second surviving son of Count Walter IV of Brienne and Marie de Lusignan of Cyprus.

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Humphrey of Hauteville

Humphrey of Hauteville (c. 1010 – August 1057), surnamed Abagelard, was the Count of Apulia and Calabria from 1051 to his death.

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Hungarian invasions of Europe

The Hungarian invasions of Europe (kalandozások, Ungarneinfälle) took place in the ninth and tenth centuries, the period of transition in the history of Europe between the Early and High Middle Ages, when the territory of the former Carolingian Empire was threatened by invasion from multiple hostile forces, the Magyars (Hungarians) from the east, the Viking expansion from the north and the Arabs from the south.

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I Borghi più belli d'Italia

I Borghi più belli d'Italia is an association of small Italian towns of historical interest, that was founded in March 2001 on the initiative of the Tourism Council of the, with the aim of preserving and maintaining villages of quality heritage.

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Index of Italy-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to Italy.

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Interconnector Turkey–Greece–Italy

The Interconnector Turkey–Greece–Italy (ITGI) is a natural gas transportation project proposed in the framework of the Southern Gas Corridor.

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Isaac Kontostephanos

Isaac Kontostephanos (Ἰσαάκ Κοντοστέφανος) was a Byzantine admiral during the reign of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118), marked by his incompetence in the wars against the Normans.

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Isabella del Balzo

Isabella of Balzo (24 June 1465 - 1533) was a Queen consort of Naples.

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Islam in Italy

Muslim presence in Italy dates back to the 9th century, when Sicily came under control of the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Italian Jews

Italian Jews (Ebrei italiani, יהודים איטלקים Yehudim Italkim) can be used in a broad sense to mean all Jews living or with roots in Italy, or, in a narrower sense, to mean the Italkim, an ancient community who use the Italian liturgy as distinct from the communities dating from medieval or modern times who use the Sephardic liturgy or the Nusach Ashkenaz.

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Itinerarium Burdigalense

The Itinerarium Burdigalense ("Bordeaux Itinerary") — also known as the Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum ("Jerusalem Itinerary") — is the oldest known Christian itinerarium.

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January 19

No description.

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Jeux Sans Frontières 1997

The European television game show Jeux Sans Frontières was won in 1997 by the team from Amadora in Portugal.

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Jewish philosophy

Jewish philosophy includes all philosophy carried out by Jews, or in relation to the religion of Judaism.

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John Raphael (catepan)

John Raphael or Rafayl was the catepan of Italy from September to December 1046 AD.

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Karaburun Peninsula, Albania

The Karaburun Peninsula (Gadishulli i Karaburunit) is a peninsula located in the southwestern Albania.

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Kurtoğlu Muslihiddin Reis

Kurtoğlu Muslihiddin Reis (1487 – c. 1535) was a privateer and admiral of the Ottoman Empire, as well as the Sanjak Bey (Provincial Governor) of Rhodes.

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Langobardia Minor

Langobardia Minor was the name that, in early Middle Ages, was given to the Lombard dominion in central-southern Italy, corresponding to the duchies of Spoleto and Benevento.

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Lecce railway station

Lecce railway station (Stazione di Lecce) serves the city and comune of Lecce, in the region of Apulia, Southern Italy.

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Lecce–Otranto railway

The Lecce–Otranto railway is an Italian long railway line, that connects Lecce with Zollino, Maglie and Otranto.

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List of basilicas in Italy

The following is a list of Roman Catholic basilicas in Italy, listed by diocese.

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List of campaigns of Suleiman the Magnificent

The imperial campaignsZürcher (1999), p. 38.

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List of castles in Italy

This is a list of castles in Italy by location.

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List of cathedrals in Italy

This is a list of cathedrals in Italy, including also Vatican City and San Marino.

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List of cities besieged by the Ottoman Empire

Below is the list of cities which were besieged by the Ottoman Empire.

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List of cities conquered by the Ottoman Empire

The list of major cities conquered by the Ottoman Empire is below.

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List of cities with defensive walls

The following cities have or historically had defensive walls.

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List of clasps to the Naval General Service Medal (1847)

The Naval General Service Medal (NGSM) was a campaign medal approved in 1847, for issue to officers and men of the Royal Navy.

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List of coastal settlements of the Mediterranean Sea

Cities are ordered by their position on the Mediterranean, from west to east.

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List of communes of Apulia

The following is a list of the communes of Apulia, in Italy.

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List of communes of the Province of Lecce

The following is a list of the 97 comuni of the Province of Lecce, Apulia, in Italy.

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List of Czech animated films

The list of Czech animated films is a list of films made in the Czech lands from 1898 to the present.

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List of dukes in Europe

The following is a list of historic duchies in Europe.

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List of extreme points of Italy

This is a list of the extreme points of Italy: the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location, as well as the highest and lowest points.

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List of French exonyms for Italian toponyms

This list of French exonyms for Italian toponyms is a compilation of Italian toponyms, names of cities, regions, rivers, mountains and other geographical features which are francized in Italy l'Italie, Italian Switzerland and other areas which are Italian-speaking or influenced by the Italian language.

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List of lighthouses in Italy

The following is a list of active lighthouses in Italy, sorted by region.

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List of pastoral visits of Pope John Paul II

During his reign, Pope John Paul II ("The Pilgrim Pope") made 104 foreign trips, more than all previous popes combined.

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List of people from Southern Italy

This is a list of notable southern Italians.

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List of places named after Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II was celebrated during his lifetime and later posthumously with several honours and as the namesake of several places and institutions.

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List of shipwrecks in 1815

The list of shipwrecks in 1815 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1815.

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List of shipwrecks in 1880

The list of shipwrecks in 1880 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1880.

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List of shipwrecks in 1960

The list of shipwrecks in 1960 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1960.

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List of shipwrecks in December 1844

The list of shipwrecks in December 1844 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during December 1844.

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List of shipwrecks in June 1916

The list of shipwrecks in June 1916 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during June 1916.

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List of Turkish exonyms

An exonym is a place name, used by non-natives of that place, that differs from the official or native name for that place.

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List of wars involving Albania

This is a list of wars that Albanian states and Albanian forces have been involved in.

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List of wings of the Royal Air Force

Wings within the Royal Air Force have both administrative and tactical applications.

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Longobardia

Longobardia (Λογγοβαρδία, also variously Λογγιβαρδία, Longibardia and Λαγουβαρδία, Lagoubardia) was a Byzantine term for the territories controlled by the Lombards in Italy.

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Lorenzo Scupoli

Lorenzo (Lawrence) Scupoli (ca. 1530 – 28 November 1610) was the author of Il combattimento spirituale (The Spiritual Combat), one of the most important works of Catholic spirituality.

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Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia

Louis IV the Saint (Ludwig IV.; 28 October 1200 – 11 September 1227), a member of the Ludovingian dynasty, was Landgrave of Thuringia and Saxon Count palatine from 1217 until his death.

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Maglie

Maglie (Salentino: Maje; Griko: Μάλιαι, translit. Màje; Mallae) is a town and comune in the province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy.

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Margareta Fouché

Margareta Fouché d'Otrante, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (28 March 1909 – 25 August 2005) was the wife of Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, and mother of Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, who married Princess Benedikte of Denmark.

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Maria Corti

Maria Corti (7 September 1915 – 22 February 2002) was an Italian philologist, literary critic, and novelist.

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Maria Cristina Giongo

Maria Cristina Giongo (born Milan, 5 May 1951), is an Italian journalist and author.

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Marittima

Marittima is a hamlet of the Diso municipality in the province of Lecce.

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Marotta (village)

Marotta is an Italian village and hamlet (frazione) of the municipalities of Mondolfo and San Costanzo, in the Province of Pesaro and Urbino, Marche.

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Martano

Martano (Griko: Μαρτάνα, translit. Martána; Salentino: Martanu) is a town and comune of 9,573 inhabitants in the province of Lecce in Apulia, Italy, from Lecce and from Otranto.

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Martyrs of Otranto

St.

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Matthias Corvinus

Matthias Corvinus, also called Matthias I (Hunyadi Mátyás, Matija Korvin, Matia Corvin, Matej Korvín, Matyáš Korvín), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490.

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Megalith

A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones.

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Mehmed the Conqueror

Mehmed II (محمد ثانى, Meḥmed-i sānī; Modern II.; 30 March 1432 – 3 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror (Fatih Sultan Mehmet), was an Ottoman Sultan who ruled first for a short time from August 1444 to September 1446, and later from February 1451 to May 1481.

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Melendugno

Melendugno (Salentino: Melendugnu or Malandugnu) is a town and comune in the Italian province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy.

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Messapians

The Messapians (Messápioi; Messapii) were an Iapygian tribe that inhabited southern Apulia in classical antiquity.

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Minervino di Lecce

Minervino di Lecce is a town and comune in the province of Lecce, Apulia, south-eastern Italy.

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Miriarch

Miriarch (Miriarca) was the title of a Byzantine personage known only for commanding the troops of the new emperor Constantine X Ducas in 1060 and 1061 in the Catapanate of Italy.

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Molise Croats

Molise Croats (Moliški Hrvati) or Molise Slavs (Slavo-molisani, Slavi del Molise) are a Croat community in the Molise province of Campobasso of Italy, which constitutes the majority in the three villages of Acquaviva Collecroce (Kruč), San Felice del Molise (Štifilić) and Montemitro (Mundimitar).

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MV Cowal

MV Cowal was a hoist-loading vehicle ferry introduced by Caledonian Steam Packet Company in 1954.

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MV Transcontainer I

Transcontainer I was a ship which was built in 1968 for SNCF as a combined RO-RO ferry and container ship. She was converted to a train ferry in 1974. The ship was sold in 1991 to a Panamanian company and renamed Nour I. A further sale in 1995 saw her renamed Niobe I. She served until scrapped in India in 2000.

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Nafpaktos

Nafpaktos (Ναύπακτος) is a town and a former municipality in Aetolia-Acarnania, West Greece, Greece, situated on a bay on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, west of the mouth of the river Mornos.

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NATO Integrated Air Defense System

NATO's NATO Integrated Air Defense System (short: NATINADS) is a command and control compound (structure or system) of the alliance's air defence forces, subordinated to the NATO command authorities, already in peace time as well as in crisis and war.

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Nicholas Pal Dukagjini

Nicholas Dukagjini (Nikollë Dukagjini) was an Albanian nobleman of the Dukagjini family in the 15th century.

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Nikephoros Phokas the Elder

Nikephoros Phokas (Νικηφόρος Φωκᾶς, Nikēphoros Phōkas; died 895/6 or ca. 900), usually surnamed the Elder to distinguish him from his grandson, Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, was one of the most prominent Byzantine generals of the late 9th century, and the first important member of the Phokas family.

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Nikolaos of Otranto

Nikolaos of Otranto (ca. 1155/60 in Otranto – February 9, 1235), also known as Nektarios of Casole, was a Greek abbot and author.

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No. 224 Squadron RAF

No.

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No. 225 Squadron RAF

No.

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No. 263 Squadron RAF

No 263 Squadron was a Royal Air Force fighter squadron formed in Italy towards the end of the First World War.

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No. 271 Squadron RAF

No.

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Norman conquest of southern Italy

The Norman conquest of southern Italy lasted from 999 to 1139, involving many battles and independent conquerors.

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Novara-class cruiser

The Novara class (sometimes called the Helgoland class) was a class of three scout cruisers built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

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Oliver Churchill

William Oliver Churchill, (1914–1997) was a Special Operations Executive (SOE) officer during the Second World War.

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Oricum

Oricum or Orikos (Ὤρικος or Ὠρικός) was an ancient Greek city in the northern part of Epirus (modern south Albania), at the south end of the Bay of Vlorë.

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Otranto (disambiguation)

Otranto is a city in Italy.

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Otranto Cathedral

Otranto Cathedral (Duomo di Otranto; Basilica Cattedrale di Santa Maria Annunziata) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the Italian city of Otranto, dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary.

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Otranto railway station

Otranto is a railway station in Otranto, Italy.

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Ottoman invasion of Otranto

The Ottoman invasion of Otranto occurred between 1480 and 1481 at the Italian city of Otranto in Apulia, southern Italy.

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Ottoman–Habsburg wars in Hungary (1526–1568)

The Habsburgs and their allies and the Ottoman Empire engaged in a series of military campaigns against one another in Hungary between 1526 and 1568.

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Ottoman–Venetian War (1537–1540)

The Third Ottoman Venetian War (1537–1540) was the second of three Ottoman Venetian wars which took place during the 16th century.

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Pacurius of Iberia

Pacurius (ბაკური) was a Chosroid prince of the Kingdom of Iberia (Kartli, eastern Georgia), and a military commander in the Roman service in Italy.

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Palmariggi

Palmariggi (Salentino: Parmarisci) is a town and comune in the Italian province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy.

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Paolo di Campofregoso

Paolo di Campofregoso (1427 – 22 March 1498) was an Italian Catholic archbishop who was three times doge of Genoa.

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Papal conclave, 1534

The papal conclave of 1534 (October 11 – October 13) was convened after the death of Pope Clement VII, and elected as his successor cardinal Alessandro Farnese, who became Pope Paul III.

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Pardos (catepan)

Pardos was the catepan of Italy briefly in 1042 following the short term of George Maniakes.

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Parteniy Pavlovich

Parteniy Pavlovich (Партений Павлович, "Parthenius, son of Paul") (c. 1695 – 29 April 1760) was a Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox cleric, man of letters and traveller, regarded as one of the precursors of Paisius of Hilendar.

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Patrimonium Sancti Petri

The expression Patrimonium Sancti Petri, or shorter Patrimonium Petri, meaning 'Patrimony of (Saint) Peter', originally designated the landed possessions and revenues of various kinds that belonged to the Church of St.

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Patron saints of places

The idea of assigning a patron saint to a certain locality harks back to the ancient tutelary deities.

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Pierre Decouz

Pierre Decouz (18 July 1775 – 18 February 1814) became a French division commander during the later Napoleonic Wars.

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Pietro Porcinai

Pietro Porcinai (Florence, Italy 1910–1986) is renowned as one of the most outstanding Italian landscape architects of the twentieth century.

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Polyeuctus of Constantinople

Polyeuctus (in Greek: Πολύευκτος), (? – 5 February 970) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (956–970).

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Pope Constantine

Pope Constantine (Constantinus; 6649 April 715) was Pope from 25 March 708 to his death in 715.

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Pope John XIII

Pope John XIII (Ioannes XIII; d. 6 September 972) was Pope from 1 October 965 to his death in 972.

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Porto Potenza Picena

Porto Potenza Picena, also spelled Porto Potenza, is an Italian village, the most populated civil parish (frazione) of the municipality of Potenza Picena in the Province of Macerata, Marche region.

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Province of Lecce

The Province of Lecce (Provincia di Lecce; Salentino: provincia te Lècce) is a province in the Apulia region of Italy.

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Punta Palascia Lighthouse

Punta Palascia Lighthouse (Faro di Punta Palascia) is an active lighthouse located in Capo d'Otranto, which is the easternmost point in Italy and the narrowest point of Strait of Otranto at the mouth of Adriatic Sea.

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Quintus Smyrnaeus

Quintus Smyrnaeus or Quintus of Smyrna, also known as Kointos Smyrnaios (Κόϊντος Σμυρναῖος), was a Greek epic poet whose Posthomerica, following "after Homer" continues the narration of the Trojan War.

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Rabbeinu Tam

Jacob ben Meir (1100 in Ramerupt – 9 June 1171 (4 tammuz) in Troyes), best known as Rabbeinu Tam (רבינו תם), was one of the most renowned Ashkenazi Jewish rabbis and leading French Tosafists, a leading halakhic authority in his generation, and a grandson of Rashi.

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Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano, (born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect and engineer.

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Rise of the Ottoman Empire

The foundation and rise of the Ottoman Empire is a period of history that started with the emergence of the Ottoman principality in, and ended with the conquest of Constantinople on May 29, 1453.

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RMS Otranto (1925)

RMS Otranto was an ocean liner that was built for the Orient Steam Navigation Company in 1925.

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Roger Borsa

Roger Borsa (1060/61 – 22 February 1111) was the Norman Duke of Apulia and Calabria and effective ruler of southern Italy from 1085 until his death.

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Roger II of Sicily

Roger II (22 December 1095Houben, p. 30. – 26 February 1154) was King of Sicily, son of Roger I of Sicily and successor to his brother Simon.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Otranto

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Otranto (Latin: Archidioecesis Hydruntina) is a see of the Catholic Church in Italy.

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Royal Naval Air Service

The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from 1 July 1914Admiralty Circular CW.13963/14, 1 July 1914: "Royal Naval Air Service – Organisation" to 1 April 1918, when it was merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps to form a new service, the Royal Air Force, the first of its kind in the world.

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Salah Rais

Salah Rais (Salih Reis) (c. 1488 – 1568) was an Ottoman privateer and admiral.

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Salento

Salento (Salentu in the Salentino dialect) is a geographic region at the southern end of the administrative region of Apulia in Southern Italy.

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Santa Cesarea Terme

Santa Cesarea Terme (Salentino: Santa Cisaria) is a town and comune of 3,100 inhabitants in province of Lecce, in Apulia, southern Italy.

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Sarandë

Sarandë or Saranda (from Agioi Saranda; Santiquaranta) is a coastal town in Vlorë County, southern of Albania.

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Serrano, Lecce

Serrano is a town of 1,406 inhabitants of the Province of Lecce, in Apulia, southern Italy.

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Shabbethai Donnolo

Shabbethai Donnolo (913 – c. 982, שבתי דונולו) was a Graeco-Italian Jewish physician, and writer on medicine and astrology born at Oria, Apulia.

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Siege of Bari

The siege of Bari took place 1068–71, during the Middle Ages, when Norman forces, under the command of Robert Guiscard, laid siege to the city of Bari, a major stronghold of the Byzantines in Italy and the capital of the Catepanate of Italy, starting from August 5, 1068.

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Siege of Belgrade (1456)

The Siege of Belgrade, Battle of Belgrade or Siege of Nándorfehérvár was a military blockade of Belgrade that occurred from July 4–22, 1456.

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Siege of Castelnuovo

The Siege of Castelnuovo was an engagement during the Ottoman-Habsburg struggle for control of the Mediterranean, which took place in July 1539 in the walled town of Castelnuovo, present-day Herceg Novi, Montenegro.

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Siege of Corfu (1537)

The Siege of Corfu in 1537 was led by the Ottoman Emperor Suleiman the Magnificent, against the Republic of Venice-held island of Corfu.

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Siege of Diu

The Siege of Diu occurred when an army of the Sultanate of Gujarat under Khadjar Safar, aided by forces of the Ottoman Empire attempted to capture the city of Diu in 1538, then held by the Portuguese.

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Siege of Szigetvár

The Siege of Szigetvár or Battle of Szigeth (pronunciation: Szigetvár ostroma, Bitka kod Sigeta; Sigetska bitka, Zigetvar Kuşatması) was a siege of the fortress of Szigetvár, Kingdom of Hungary, that blocked Suleiman's line of advance towards Vienna in 1566 AD.

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Skanderbeg

George Castriot (Gjergj Kastrioti, 6 May 1405 – 17 January 1468), known as Skanderbeg (Skënderbej or Skënderbeu from اسکندر بگ İskender Bey), was an Albanian nobleman and military commander, who served the Ottoman Empire in 1423–43, the Republic of Venice in 1443–47, and lastly the Kingdom of Naples until his death.

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SM U-15 (Austria-Hungary)

SM U-15 or U-XV was a or U-boat of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine or K.u.K. Kriegsmarine) during World War I. U-15 was constructed in Germany and shipped by rail to Pola where she was assembled and launched in April 1915.

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SMS Helgoland (1912)

SMS HelgolandIn German, "SMS" means "Seiner Majestät Schiff" (in English: "His Majesty's Ship").

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SNOLAB

SNOLAB is a Canadian underground physics laboratory at a depth of 2 km in Vale's Creighton nickel mine in Sudbury, Ontario.

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Soleto Map

The Soleto Map is a possibly ancient map, which depicts Salento on a small piece of ostrakon derived from a terracotta vase.

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Stefano Pendinelli

Stefano Pendinelli (also Stefano Argercolo de Pendinellis; 1403 – 11 August 1480) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of Otranto, Italy.

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Strait of Otranto

The Strait of Otranto (Kanali i Otrantos; Canale d'Otranto; Otranska Vrata) connects the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea and separates Italy from Albania.

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Structure of the Italian Air Force

The article provides an overview of the entire chain of command and organization of the Italian Air Force as of 1 January 2018 and includes all currently active units.

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Stupida

Stupida is the first EP by Italian singer Alessandra Amoroso.

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Susan Nathan

Susan Nathan is a British-born Israeli writer.

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Tegetthoff-class battleship

The Tegetthoff class (sometimes called the Viribus Unitis class) was a class of four dreadnought battleships built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

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Terra di Otranto

The Terra di Otranto, or Terra d'Otranto (in English, Land of Otranto), is an historical and geographical region of Apulia, anciently part of the Kingdom of Sicily and later of the Kingdom of Naples, which became a province of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

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The Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole.

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The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco.

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Theme (Byzantine district)

The themes or themata (θέματα, thémata, singular: θέμα, théma) were the main administrative divisions of the middle Eastern Roman Empire.

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Theonistus

Saint Theonistus (Theonist, Teonesto, Thaumastus, Thaumastos, Theonestus, Thonistus, Onistus, Teonisto, Tonisto) is a saint venerated by the Catholic Church.

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Third Rome

Third Rome is the hypothetical successor to the legacy of ancient Rome (the "first Rome").

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Timeline of historical geopolitical changes

This is a timeline of country and capital changes around the world.

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Timeline of Orthodoxy in Greece (717–1204)

This is a timeline of the presence of Orthodoxy in Greece.

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Timeline of the Adriatic campaign of 1807–14

The Adriatic campaign of 1807–1814 was a struggle for supremacy in the Adriatic Sea between the French Navy and the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Timeline of the Ottoman Empire

This article provides a timeline of the Ottoman Empire See also Timeline of the Republic of Turkey, a chronology of the successor state to the Ottoman Empire.

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Timeline of the Republic of Venice

This article presents a detailed timeline of the history of the Republic of Venice from its legendary foundation to its collapse under the efforts of Napoleon.

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Timeline of Turkish history

See History of Turkey.

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Tirana

Tirana (—; Tiranë; Tirona) is the capital and most populous city of Albania.

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Torre Canne

Torre Canne is a southeastern Italian coastal village and hamlet (frazione) of the municipality of Fasano in the Province of Brindisi, Apulia.

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Trabaccolo

The trabaccoló, trabaccalo, trabacalo (in Italian) or trabakul (in Croatian), is a type of Adriatic Sea sailing coaster.

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Treaty of Florence

The Treaty of Florence (28 March 1801), which followed the Armistice of Foligno (9 February 1801), brought to an end the war between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Naples, one of the Wars of the French Revolution.

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Turks in Italy

Turks in Italy (İtalya Türkleri) are Italian citizens of Turkish origin.

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Varangian Guard

The Varangian Guard (Τάγμα τῶν Βαράγγων, Tágma tōn Varángōn) was an elite unit of the Byzantine Army, from the 10th to the 14th centuries, whose members served as personal bodyguards to the Byzantine Emperors.

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War of the League of Cambrai

The War of the League of Cambrai, sometimes known as the War of the Holy League and by several other names, was a major conflict in the Italian Wars.

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1481

Year 1481 (MCDLXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

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544

Year 544 (DXLIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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876

Year 876 (DCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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925

Year 925 (CMXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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928

Year 928 (CMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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947

Year 947 (CMXLVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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976

Year 976 (CMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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References

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

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