Ancona, the Glossary
Ancona (also) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region of Central Italy, with a population of around 101,997.[1]
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- 380s BC establishments
- Coastal towns in the Marche
- Duchy of the Pentapolis
- Mediterranean port cities and towns in Italy
- Papal States
- Port cities and towns of the Adriatic Sea
- Syracusian colonies
Adriatic Sea
The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula.
Agontano
The Agontano was the currency used by the Italian Maritime Republic of Ancona from the 12th to the 16th centuries during its golden age.
Albania
Albania (Shqipëri or Shqipëria), officially the Republic of Albania (Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeast Europe.
Aligi Sassu
Aligi Sassu (17 July 1912 – 17 July 2000) was an Italian painter and sculptor.
Allies of World War I
The Allies, the Entente or the Triple Entente was an international military coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918).
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Allies of World War II
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.
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Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Ancona Cathedral
Ancona Cathedral (Duomo di Ancona, Basilica Cattedrale Metropolitana di San Ciriaco) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Ancona, central Italy, dedicated to Saint Cyriacus.
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Ancona railway station
Ancona railway station, sometimes called Ancona Centrale, is the main railway station of Ancona, Region of Marché (the Marches).
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Andrea Lilio
Andrea Lilio (1555 - 1642) was an Italian painter born in Ancona, hence he also is known as L'Anconitano.
ANEK Lines
ANEK Lines (Ανώνυμη Ναυτιλιακή Εταιρεία Κρήτης, Anonymi Naftiliaki Eteria Kritis, Anonymous Shipping Company of Crete) is one of the largest passenger shipping companies in Greece.
Anselmo Bucci
Anselmo Bucci (25 May 1887 – 19 November 1955) was an Italian painter and printmaker.
Apennine Mountains
The Apennines or Apennine Mountains (Ἀπέννινα ὄρη or Ἀπέννινον ὄρος; Appenninus or Apenninus Mons– a singular with plural meaning; Appennini)Latin Apenninus (Greek Ἀπέννινος or Ἀπέννινα) has the form of an adjective, which would be segmented Apenn-inus, often used with nouns such as mons ("mountain") or Greek ὄρος, but Apenninus is just as often used alone as a noun.
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Aphrodite
Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman goddess counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.
Apollodorus of Damascus
Apollodorus of Damascus (Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Δαμασκηνός) was an architect and engineer from Roman Syria, who flourished during the 2nd century AD.
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Arcangelo di Cola
Arcangelo di Cola (active 1416–1429) was an Italian painter, active throughout central Italy in a late Gothic style.
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Arch of Titus
The Arch of Titus (Arco di Tito; Arcus Titi) is a 1st-century CE honorific arch, located on the Via Sacra, Rome, just to the south-east of the Roman Forum.
Arch of Trajan (Ancona)
The Arch of Trajan in Ancona is a Roman triumphal arch erected in 115 by the Senate and people of Rome in the reign of Emperor Trajan.
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Augustinians
Augustinians are members of several religious orders that follow the Rule of Saint Augustine, written in about 400 AD by Augustine of Hippo.
Austro-Hungarian Navy
The Austro-Hungarian Navy or Imperial and Royal War Navy (kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine, in short k.u.k. Kriegsmarine, Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet) was the naval force of Austria-Hungary.
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Autostrada A14 (Italy)
The Autostrada A14 or Autostrada Adriatica ("Adriatic Motorway") is the second-longest autostrada (Italian for "motorway") in Italy.
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Avignon
Avignon (Provençal or Avignoun,; Avenio) is the prefecture of the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France.
Çeşme
Çeşme is a municipality and district of İzmir Province, Turkey.
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Basilica
In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica was a large public building with multiple functions that was typically built alongside the town's forum.
Battle of Ancona
The Battle of Ancona was fought between forces from Poland serving as part of the British Army and German forces that took place from 16 June–18 July 1944 during the Italian campaign in World War II.
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Biblioteca comunale Luciano Benincasa
The Biblioteca comunale Luciano Benincasa (the "Luciano Benincasa Municipal Library") is located in Ancona, Italy, in the Palazzo Mengoni-Ferretti, at the central Piazza del Plebiscito (Plebiscite Square).
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Black Death
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353.
Bombardment of Ancona
The Bombardment of Ancona was a naval engagement of the Adriatic Campaign of World War I between the navies of Italy and Austria-Hungary.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Bruno Cassinari
Bruno Cassinari (29 October 1912 – 26 March 1992) was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked in a style that mixed cubist and expressionist elements.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Carlo Crivelli
Carlo Crivelli (–) was an Italian Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility, who spent his early years in the Veneto, where he absorbed influences from the Vivarini, Squarcione, and Mantegna.
Carlo Levi
Carlo Levi (29 November 1902 – 4 January 1975) was an Italian painter, writer, activist, independent leftist politician, and doctor.
Castelfidardo
Castelfidardo (Marchigiano: Castello) is a town and comune in the province of Ancona, in the Marche region of central-eastern Italy. Ancona and Castelfidardo are cities and towns in the Marche and Municipalities of the Province of Ancona.
Central Italy
Central Italy (Italia centrale or Centro Italia) is one of the five official statistical regions of Italy used by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), a first-level NUTS region, and a European Parliament constituency.
Chalcolithic
The Chalcolithic (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper.
Charlemagne
Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Ciro Ferri
Ciro Ferri (1634 – 13 September 1689) was an Italian Baroque sculptor and painter, the chief pupil and successor of Pietro da Cortona.
Collins English Dictionary
The Collins English Dictionary is a printed and online dictionary of English.
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Corinthian order
The Corinthian order (Κορινθιακὸς ῥυθμός, Korinthiakós rythmós; Ordo Corinthius) is the last developed and most ornate of the three principal classical orders of Ancient Greek architecture and Roman architecture.
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Crypto-Judaism
Crypto-Judaism is the secret adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith; practitioners are referred to as "crypto-Jews" (origin from Greek kryptos – κρυπτός, 'hidden').
Cum nimis absurdum
Cum nimis absurdum was a papal bull issued by Pope Paul IV dated 14 July 1555.
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Cyriacus of Ancona
Cyriacus of Ancona or Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli (31 July 1391 – 1452) was a restlessly itinerant Italian humanist and antiquarian who came from a prominent family of merchants in Ancona, a maritime republic on the Adriatic.
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Dalmatia
Dalmatia (Dalmacija; Dalmazia; see names in other languages) is one of the four historical regions of Croatia, alongside Central Croatia, Slavonia, and Istria, located on the east shore of the Adriatic Sea in Croatia.
Daniele Silvetti
Daniele Silvetti (born 17 September 1973) is an Italian politician.
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Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik (Ragusa; see notes on naming) is a city in southern Dalmatia, Croatia, by the Adriatic Sea.
Durrës
Durrës (Durrësi) is the second-most-populous city of the Republic of Albania and seat of Durrës County and Durrës Municipality.
East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Emanuele Naspetti
Emanuele Naspetti (born 24 February 1968) is a racing driver and entrepreneur from Italy.
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Emilian–Romagnol
Emilian-Romagnol (emiliano-romagnolo) is a linguistic continuum that is part of the Gallo-Italic languages spoken in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna.
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Enzo Cucchi
Enzo Cucchi (born 14 November 1949) is an Italian painter.
European Coastal Airlines
European Coastal Airlines was a Croatian seaplane operator headquartered in Split.
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Exarchate of Ravenna
The Exarchate of Ravenna (Exarchatus Ravennatis; Εξαρχάτον τής Ραβέννας), also known as the Exarchate of Italy, was an administrative district of the Byzantine Empire comprising, between the 6th and 8th centuries, the territories under the jurisdiction of the exarch of Italy (exarchus Italiae) resident in Ravenna.
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Falconara Marittima
Falconara Marittima is a seaside resort on the Adriatic coast, in Italy, located north of Ancona, in the Marche region, province of Ancona. Ancona and Falconara Marittima are cities and towns in the Marche and Municipalities of the Province of Ancona.
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Fano
Fano is a town and comune of the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region of Italy. Ancona and Fano are cities and towns in the Marche, coastal towns in the Marche and Duchy of the Pentapolis.
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Federico Zuccari
Federico Zuccaro, also known as Federico Zuccari (Unknown), was an Italian Mannerist painter and architect, active both in Italy and abroad.
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Foehn wind
A Foehn, or Föhn, is a type of dry, relatively warm downslope wind that occurs in the lee (downwind side) of a mountain range.
Forza Italia (2013)
The name is not usually translated into English: forza is the second-person singular imperative of ''forzare'', in this case translating to "to compel" or "to press", and so means something like "Forward, Italy", "Come on, Italy" or "Go, Italy!".
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Francesco di Giorgio Martini
Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439–1501) was an Italian architect, engineer, painter, sculptor, and writer.
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Francesco Podesti
Francesco Podesti (21 March 1800 – 10 February 1895) was an Italian painter, active in a Romantic style.
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Franco Corelli
Franco Corelli (8 April 1921 – 29 October 2003) was an Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976.
Fresco
Fresco (or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster.
Gaeta
Gaeta (Cāiēta; Southern Laziale: Gaieta) is a city in the province of Latina, in Lazio, Italy.
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Galați
Galați (also known by other alternative names) is the capital city of Galați County in the historical region of Western Moldavia, in eastern Romania.
Ghetto
A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group are concentrated, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental or economic pressure.
Giorgio da Sebenico
Giorgio da Sebenico or Giorgio Orsini or Juraj Dalmatinac (c. 1410 – 10 October 1473) was a Venetian sculptor and architect from Dalmatia, who worked mainly in Sebenico (now Šibenik, Croatia), and in the city of Ancona, then a maritime republic.
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Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.
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Gothic Line
The Gothic Line (Gotenstellung; Linea Gotica) was a German and Italian defensive line of the Italian Campaign of World War II.
Goths
The Goths (translit; Gothi, Gótthoi) were Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe.
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Gozzi Altarpiece
The Gozzi Altarpiece is an oil painting by the Italian Renaissance master Titian, dating from 1520.
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Gracia Mendes Nasi
Gracia Mendes Nasi (20 June 1510 – 3 November 1569), also known as Doña Gracia or La Señora (The Lady), was a Portuguese Jewish philanthropist, businesswoman, and one of the wealthiest women of Renaissance Europe.
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Granby, Quebec
Granby is a town in the southwestern region of Quebec east of Montreal.
Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Guelphs and Ghibellines
The Guelphs and Ghibellines (guelfi e ghibellini) were factions supporting respectively the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor in the Italian city-states of Central Italy and Northern Italy during the Middle Ages.
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Guercino
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as (il) Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna.
HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.
Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.
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House of Malatesta
The House of Malatesta was an Italian family that ruled over Rimini from 1295 until 1500, as well as (in different periods) other lands and towns in Romagna and holding high positions in the government of cities in present-day Tuscany, Lombardy and Marche.
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Humid subtropical climate
A humid subtropical climate is a temperate climate type characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters.
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Igoumenitsa
Igoumenitsa (Igoumenítsa) is a coastal city in northwestern Greece.
II Corps (Poland)
The Polish II Corps (Drugi Korpus Wojska Polskiego), 1943–1947, was a major tactical and operational unit of the Polish Armed Forces in the West during World War II.
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Illyro-Roman Wars
The Illyro-Roman Wars were a series of wars fought between the Roman Republic and the Illyrian kingdom under the Ardiaei and Labeatae.
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Immanuel the Roman
Immanuel ben Solomon ben Jekuthiel of Rome (Immanuel of Rome, Immanuel Romano, Manoello Giudeo) (1261 in Rome – ca. 1335 in Fermo, Italy) was a Jewish poet and author who lived in present-day Italy and composed works in Hebrew and Italian.
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International Air Transport Association
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is a trade association of the world's airlines founded in 1945.
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International Civil Aviation Organization
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates the principles and techniques of international air navigation, and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth.
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.
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Italian Jews
Italian Jews (ebrei italiani; yehudim italkim) or Roman Jews (ebrei romani; yehudim romim) can be used in a broad sense to mean all Jews living in or with roots in Italy, or, in a narrower sense, to mean the Italkim, an ancient community living in Italy since the Ancient Roman era, who use the Italian liturgy (or "Italian Rite") as distinct from those Jewish communities in Italy dating from medieval or modern times who use the Sephardic liturgy or the Nusach Ashkenaz.
Italian National Institute of Statistics
The Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istituto nazionale di statistica; Istat) is the primary source of official statistics in Italy.
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Jadrolinija
Jadrolinija is a Croatian shipping company.
Jean Guillaume Bruguière
Jean Guillaume Bruguière (19 July 1749 – 3 October 1798) was a French physician, zoologist and diplomat.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
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Judas Cyriacus
Judas Cyriacus (Cyriacus of Ancona, Cyriacus of Jerusalem, Quiriacus, Quiricus, Kyriakos); Quirico, Ciriaco), d. ca. AD 360, is the patron saint of Ancona, Italy. His feast day is celebrated in the Catholic Church on 4 May.
Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kingdom of Italy
The Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 10 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished, following civil discontent that led to an institutional referendum on 2 June 1946.
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Lake-effect snow
Lake-effect snow is produced during cooler atmospheric conditions when a cold air mass moves across long expanses of warmer lake water.
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Lazaretto
A lazaretto, sometimes lazaret or lazarette, is a quarantine station for maritime travelers.
Lazzaretto of Ancona
The Lazzaretto of Ancona, also called the Mole Vanvitelliana, is a pentagonal 18th-century building built on an artificial island as a quarantine station for the port town of Ancona, Italy.
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Levant
The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.
Lexico
Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
Line of communication
A line of communication (or communications) is the route that connects an operating military unit with its supply base.
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Livy
Titus Livius (59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy, was a Roman historian.
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Loggia dei Mercanti
The Loggia dei Mercanti ("Merchants' Lodge") is a historical palace in Ancona, central Italy.
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Lombards
The Lombards or Longobards (Longobardi) were a Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774.
Lorenzo Lotto
Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian Renaissance painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities.
Louis Juchault de Lamoricière
Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière (5 September 1806 – 11 September 1865) was a French general.
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Luigi Vanvitelli
Luigi Vanvitelli (12 May 1700 – 1 March 1773), known in Dutch as italics, was an Italian architect and painter.
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March of Ancona
The March of Ancona (or Anconetana) was a frontier march centred on the city of Ancona and later Fermo then Macerata in the Middle Ages. Ancona and march of Ancona are papal States.
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Marche
Marche, in English sometimes referred to as the Marches, is one of the twenty regions of Italy.
Marche Airport
Marche Airport (Aeroporto delle Marche), formerly Ancona Falconara Airport (Aeroporto di Ancona-Falconara), is an airport serving Ancona and the Marche region of central Italy.
Marche Polytechnic University
Marche Polytechnic University or Polytechnic University of the Marches (Italian Università Politecnica delle Marche) is a public university in Ancona, Italy.
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Marco Polo
Marco Polo (8 January 1324) was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.
Margaritone d'Arezzo
Margarito, Margaritone da Arezzo or Margaritone d'Arezzo (fl.) was an Italian painter from Arezzo, in Tuscany.
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Maritime republics
The maritime republics (repubbliche marinare), also called merchant republics (repubbliche mercantili), were Italian thalassocratic port cities which, starting from the Middle Ages, enjoyed political autonomy and economic prosperity brought about by their maritime activities.
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Massimo Campigli
Massimo Campigli (born Max Ihlenfeld, 4 July 189531 May 1971) was an Italian painter and journalist.
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Minoan Lines
Minoan Lines is one of the largest passenger ferry companies in Europe, and one of the dominant passenger ferry companies in Greece, sailing between Piraeus and Crete and, in the Adriatic Sea, between Patras and various Italian ports.
Monte Conero
Monte Conero or Mount Conero, also known as Monte d'Ancona (Mount of Ancona), is a promontory in Italy, situated directly south of the port of Ancona on the Adriatic Sea.
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
National Archaeological Museum of the Marches
The National Archaeological Museum of the Marches (Museo archeologico nazionale delle Marche) is an archaeological museum in Ancona, Marches, Italy.
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Necropolis
A necropolis (necropolises, necropoles, necropoleis, necropoli) is a large, designed cemetery with elaborate tomb monuments.
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Niccolò Matas
Niccolò "Nicola" Matas (6 December 1798 – 11 March 1872) was an Italian architect and professor.
North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
Olivuccio di Ciccarello
Olivuccio Ceccarello di Ciccarello (died 1439) was an Italian painter.
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Orazio Gentileschi
Orazio Lomi Gentileschi (1563–1639) was an Italian painter.
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Orfeo Tamburi
Orfeo Tamburi (1910–1994) was an Italian painter and scenic designer.
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Palatias and Laurentia
Palatias and Laurentia (Sante Palazia e Laurenzia, Lorenza) (died 302 AD) are martyrs venerated by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
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Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.
Palm branch
The palm branch, or palm frond, is a symbol of victory, triumph, peace, and eternal life originating in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world.
Papal States
The Papal States (Stato Pontificio), officially the State of the Church (Stato della Chiesa; Status Ecclesiasticus), were a conglomeration of territories on the Apennine Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the Pope from 756 to 1870.
Patras
Patras (Pátra; Katharevousa and Πάτραι; Patrae) is Greece's third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, west of Athens.
Pellegrino Tibaldi
San Sebastiano (Milan) Pellegrino Tibaldi (1527, Valsolda - 27 May 1596, Milan), also known as Pellegrino di Tibaldo de Pellegrini, was an Italian mannerist architect, sculptor, and mural painter.
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Pentapolis
A pentapolis (from Greek πεντα- penta-, 'five' and πόλις polis, 'city') is a geographic and/or institutional grouping of five cities.
Pesaro
Pesaro (Pés're) is a comune (municipality) in the Italian region of Marche, capital of the province of Pesaro and Urbino, on the Adriatic Sea. Ancona and Pesaro are cities and towns in the Marche, coastal towns in the Marche and Duchy of the Pentapolis.
Picentes
The Picentes or Piceni or Picentini were an ancient Italic people who lived from the 9th to the 3rd century BC in the area between the Foglia and Aterno rivers, bordered to the west by the Apennines and to the east by the Adriatic coast.
Polish Armed Forces in the West
The Polish Armed Forces in the West refers to the Polish military formations formed to fight alongside the Western Allies against Nazi Germany and its allies during World War II.
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Polish language
Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.
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Pompeia Plotina
Pompeia Plotina (died 121/122) was Roman empress from 98 to 117 as the wife of Trajan.
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Pope Clement VII
Pope Clement VII (Clemens VII; Clemente VII; born Giulio de' Medici; 26 May 1478 – 25 September 1534) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 November 1523 to his death on 25 September 1534.
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Pope Clement XII
Pope Clement XII (Clemens XII; Clemente XII; 7 April 16526 February 1740), born Lorenzo Corsini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 July 1730 to his death in February 1740.
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Pope Gregory XVI
Pope Gregory XVI (Gregorius XVI; Gregorio XVI; born Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari; 18 September 1765 – 1 June 1846) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 2 February 1831 to his death in June 1846.
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Pope Paul IV
Pope Paul IV (Paulus IV; Paolo IV; 28 June 1476 – 18 August 1559), born Gian Pietro Carafa, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 23 May 1555 to his death, in August 1559.
Pope Pius II
Pope Pius II (Pius PP., Pio II), born Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini (Aeneas Silvius Bartholomeus; 18 October 1405 – 14 August 1464), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 August 1458 to his death.
Pope Pius IX
Pope Pius IX (Pio IX, Pio Nono; born Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878.
A promontory is a raised mass of land that projects into a lowland or a body of water (in which case it is a peninsula).
Province of Ancona
The province of Ancona (provincia di Ancona) is a province in the Marche region of Italy.
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Province of Pesaro and Urbino
The province of Pesaro and Urbino (provincia di Pesaro e Urbino) is a province in the Marche region of Italy.
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Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
Relief
Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material.
Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
Republic of Ancona
The Republic of Ancona was a medieval commune and maritime republic on the Adriatic coast of modern-day Italy, notable for its economic development and maritime trade, particularly with the Byzantine Empire and Eastern Mediterranean, although somewhat confined by Venetian supremacy on the sea.
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Republic of Ragusa
The Republic of Ragusa (Republica de Ragusa; Respublica Ragusina; Repubblica di Ragusa; Dubrovačka Republika; Repùblega de Raguxa) was an aristocratic maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik (Ragusa in Italian and Latin; Raguxa in Venetian) in South Dalmatia (today in southernmost Croatia) that carried that name from 1358 until 1808.
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Republic of Venice
The Republic of Venice, traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice.
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Rijeka Airport
Rijeka Airport (Zračna luka Rijeka, Aeroporto di Fiume) is the international airport serving Rijeka, Croatia.
Rimini
Rimini (Rémin or; Ariminum) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. Ancona and Rimini are Duchy of the Pentapolis and papal States.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ancona–Osimo
The Archdiocese of Ancona–Osimo (Archidioecesis Anconitana-Auximana) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory and metropolitan see of the Catholic Church in the Marche region of Italy.
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Romanesque architecture
Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries.
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Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.
Rubicon
The Rubicon (Rubico; Rubicone; Rubicôn) is a shallow river in northeastern Italy, just south of Cesena and north of Rimini.
San Francesco alle Scale
San Francesco alle Scale is a church in Ancona, central Italy.
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Santa Maria della Piazza, Ancona
Santa Maria della Piazza is a church in Ancona, central Italy.
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Sarcophagus
A sarcophagus (sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a coffin, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried.
Sebastiano del Piombo
Sebastiano del Piombo (– 21 June 1547) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance and early Mannerist periods famous as the only major artist of the period to combine the colouring of the Venetian school in which he was trained with the monumental forms of the Roman school.
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Senigallia
Senigallia (or Sinigaglia in Old Italian; Romagnol: S'nigaja) is a comune (municipality) and port town on Italy's Adriatic coast. Ancona and Senigallia are cities and towns in the Marche, coastal towns in the Marche, Duchy of the Pentapolis, Municipalities of the Province of Ancona and papal States.
Sicily
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Siege of Ancona (1860)
The siege of Ancona took place between 24 and 29 September 1860 during the Second Italian War of Independence.
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Signoria
A signoria was the governing authority in many of the Italian city-states during the Medieval and Renaissance periods.
Sister city
A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.
SNAV
SNAV (Società Navigazione Alta Velocità) is an Italian company that operates ferry services from Italy to Sardinia, Croatia and Sicily.
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Split Airport
Split Saint Jerome Airport (Zračna luka Sveti Jeronim Split), also known as Split Airport (Zračna luka Split), is the international airport serving the city of Split, Croatia.
Split, Croatia
Split (Spalato:; see other names), is the second-largest city of Croatia after the capital Zagreb, the largest city in Dalmatia and the largest city on the Croatian coast. Ancona and Split, Croatia are port cities and towns of the Adriatic Sea.
Stadio del Conero
Stadio del Conero was the home field of the Italian football club A.C. Ancona until 2010 when the club was canceled by every league.
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Superfast Ferries
Superfast Ferries is a Greece-based ferry company founded in 1993 by Pericles Panagopulos and Alexander Panagopulos.
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Syracuse, Sicily
Syracuse (Siracusa; Sarausa) is a historic city on the Italian island of Sicily, the capital of the Italian province of Syracuse. Ancona and Syracuse, Sicily are Mediterranean port cities and towns in Italy.
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Terziere
A terziere (terzieri) is a subdivision of several towns in Italy.
The City Of Light (book)
The City of Light or The City Of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo is a book purportedly made by a scholarly Jewish merchant called "Jacob d'Ancona" who wrote in vernacular Italian, an account of a trading venture he made, in which he reached China in 1271, four years before Marco Polo.
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Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian, was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting.
Trajan
Trajan (born Marcus Ulpius Traianus, adopted name Caesar Nerva Traianus; 18 September 53) was a Roman emperor from AD 98 to 117, remembered as the second of the Five Good Emperors of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty.
Triumphal arch
A triumphal arch is a free-standing monumental structure in the shape of an archway with one or more arched passageways, often designed to span a road, and usually standing alone, unconnected to other buildings.
Trolleybuses in Ancona
The Ancona trolleybus system (Rete filoviaria di Ancona) forms part of the public transport network of the city and comune of Ancona, in the Marche region, central Italy.
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Tyrian purple
Tyrian purple (πορφύρα porphúra; purpura), also known as royal purple, imperial purple, or imperial dye, is a reddish-purple natural dye.
Ukraine
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US Ancona 1905
Unione Sportiva Ancona 1905, commonly referred to as Ancona, was an Italian football club based in Ancona, Marche.
Virna Lisi
Virna Lisa Pieralisi (8 November 1936 – 18 December 2014), known as just Virna Lisi, was an Italian actress.
Vito Volterra
Vito Volterra (3 May 1860 – 11 October 1940) was an Italian mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations, being one of the founders of functional analysis.
World War I
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World War II
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Zadar
Zadar (Zara; see also other names) is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Croatia.
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1846 papal conclave
In the papal conclave held from 14 to 16 June 1846, Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti, Bishop of Imola, was elected on the fourth ballot to succeed the recently deceased Gregory XVI as pope.
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See also
380s BC establishments
Coastal towns in the Marche
- Ancona
- Fano
- Grottammare
- Marotta (village)
- Pesaro
- Porto Potenza Picena
- Porto d'Ascoli
- San Benedetto del Tronto
- Senigallia
Duchy of the Pentapolis
Mediterranean port cities and towns in Italy
- Ancona
- Antium
- Anzio
- Bari
- Brindisi
- Cagliari
- Catania
- Civitavecchia
- Fiumicino
- Genoa
- Gioia Tauro
- Lampedusa
- Mazara del Vallo
- Messina
- Naples
- Nettuno
- Ostia Antica
- Palermo
- Pescara
- Porto Empedocle
- Porto Ercole
- Porto Pisano
- Porto Santo Stefano
- Ravenna
- Reggio Calabria
- Sampierdarena
- Savona
- Sestri Ponente
- Syracuse, Sicily
- Taranto
- Torre del Greco
- Trapani
- Trieste
- Venice
Papal States
- Administrative subdivisions of the Papal States from 1816 to 1870
- Ancona
- Avignon Papacy
- Bologna
- Caeca et Obdurata
- Campagna e Marittima Province
- Canton of Valréas
- Comtat Venaissin
- Diploma Ottonianum
- Domusculta
- Donation of Constantine
- Donation of Pepin
- Duchy of Bracciano
- Duchy of Castro
- Duchy of Parma and Piacenza
- Faenza
- Ferrara
- Forlì
- Fundamental Statute for the Secular Government of the States of the Church
- Gonfalone of the Church
- History of the Papal States
- Libellus de imperatoria potestate in urbe Roma
- List of prime ministers of the Papal States
- March of Ancona
- Mazzatello
- Mugnano in Teverina
- Noi vogliam Dio, Vergine Maria
- Nostis et nobiscum
- Papal States
- Papal States–United States relations
- Papal household
- Papal lira
- Patrimony of Saint Peter
- Postremo mense
- Ravenna
- Rimini
- Roman scudo
- Senigallia
Port cities and towns of the Adriatic Sea
- Šibenik
- Ancona
- Bar, Montenegro
- Bari
- Barletta
- Brindisi
- Koper
- Molfetta
- Neum
- Otranto
- Pescara
- Ploče
- Rijeka
- San Benedetto del Tronto
- Split, Croatia
- Trani
- Trieste
- Venice
Syracusian colonies
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancona
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