Calabria, the Glossary
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413 relations: 'Ndrangheta, 'Nduja, Accademia Cosentina, Acri, Adriatic Sea, Agathocles of Syracuse, Alcmaeon of Croton, Alexander I of Epirus, Alfonso Rendano, Alfonso V of Aragon, Aloysius Lilius, Amantea, Amendolara, Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek, Anniversary of the Unification of Italy, Antonio Serra, Anusim, Apennine Mountains, Apulia, Arabs, Arbëreshë people, Arianism, Armistice of Cassibile, Arms trafficking, Art Nouveau, Aspromonte, Aspromonte National Park, Association football, Astylos of Croton, Atlantic bluefin tuna, Augustus, Autostrada A2 (Italy), Autostrada A30 (Italy), Back-arc basin, Badolato, Bagnara Calabra, Barlaam of Seminara, Basilian monks, Basilicata, Basketball, Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Battle of Aspromonte, Battle of Hastings, Belvedere Marittimo, Benito Mussolini, Bergamot orange, Bernardino Telesio, Biscotti, Bobbin lace, ... Expand index (363 more) »
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'Ndrangheta
The 'Ndrangheta is an Italian Mafia-type association, Disegno di legge, Senato della Repubblica, 20 May 2010 based in the peninsular region of Calabria and dating back to the 19th century.
'Nduja
'Nduja (from French andouille) is a spicy, spreadable pork sausage from the Calabria region of Italy.
Accademia Cosentina
The Accademia Cosentina ("Cosentian Academy" or "Telesian Academy" in English) is still an Italian accademia or learned society in Cosenza, Italy.
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Acri
Acri (Calabrian: Eacri) is a city with 19,949 inhabitants, situated in the northern part of the Calabria region in southern Italy.
Adriatic Sea
The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula.
Agathocles of Syracuse
Agathocles (Ἀγαθοκλῆς, Agathoklḗs; 361–289 BC) was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse (317–289 BC) and self-styled king of Sicily (304–289 BC).
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Alcmaeon of Croton
Alcmaeon of Croton (Ἀλκμαίων ὁ Κροτωνιάτης, Alkmaiōn, gen.: Ἀλκμαίωνος; fl. 5th century BC) was an early Greek medical writer and philosopher-scientist.
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Alexander I of Epirus
Alexander I of Epirus (Ἀλέξανδρος Α'; c. 370 BC – 331 BC), also known as Alexander Molossus (Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μολοσσός), was a king of Epirus (343/2–331 BC) of the Aeacid dynasty.
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Alfonso Rendano
Alfonso Rendano (5 April 1853 – 10 September 1931) was an Italian pianist and composer.
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Alfonso V of Aragon
Alfonso the Magnanimous (Alfons el Magnànim in Catalan) (139627 June 1458) was King of Aragon and King of Sicily (as Alfons V) and the ruler of the Crown of Aragon from 1416 and King of Naples (as Alfons I) from 1442 until his death.
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Aloysius Lilius
Aloysius Lilius (1510 – 1576), also variously referred to as Luigi Lilio or Luigi Giglio, was an Italian physician, astronomer, philosopher and chronologist, and also the "primary author" who provided the proposal that (after modifications) became the basis of the Gregorian Calendar reform of 1582.
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Amantea
Amantea (Calabrian: A' Mantia) is a town, former bishopric, comune (municipality) and Latin Catholic titular see in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Amendolara
Amendolara (Lucano: Minnuàre) is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
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Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
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Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
The Anniversary of the Unification of Italy (Anniversario dell'Unità d'Italia) is a national day that falls annually on 17 March and celebrates the birth of Italy as a modern nation state, which took place following the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy on 17 March 1861.
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Antonio Serra
Antonio Serra was a late 16th-century Italian philosopher and economist in the mercantilist tradition.
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Anusim
Anusim (אֲנוּסִים,; singular male, anús, אָנוּס; singular female, anusáh,, meaning "coerced") is a legal category of Jews in halakha (Jewish law) who were forced to abandon Judaism against their will, typically while forcibly converted to another religion.
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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Apulia
Apulia, also known by its Italian name Puglia, is a region of Italy, located in the southern peninsular section of the country, bordering the Adriatic Sea to the east, the Strait of Otranto and Ionian Sea to the southeast and the Gulf of Taranto to the south. Calabria and Apulia are NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union, regions of Italy and wine regions of Italy.
Arabs
The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.
Arbëreshë people
The Arbëreshë (Arbëreshët e Italisë; Albanesi d'Italia), also known as Albanians of Italy or Italo-Albanians, are an Albanian ethnolinguistic group minority historically settled in Southern and Insular Italy (in the regions of Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania, Molise, mostly concentrated in the region of Calabria and Sicily).
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Arianism
Arianism (Ἀρειανισμός) is a Christological doctrine considered heretical by all modern mainstream branches of Christianity.
Armistice of Cassibile
The Armistice of Cassibile was an armistice that was signed on 3 September 1943 between Italy and the Allies during World War II.
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Arms trafficking
Arms trafficking or gunrunning is the illicit trade of contraband small arms, explosives, and ammunition, which constitutes part of a broad range of illegal activities often associated with transnational criminal organizations.
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Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts.
The Aspromonte is a mountain massif in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria (Calabria, southern Italy).
Aspromonte National Park is situated in the southern section of the Apennines, in Calabria, Italy.
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Astylos of Croton
Astylos of Croton or Astylus of Croton (Ἄστυλος/Ἀστύαλος ὁ Κροτωνιάτης) was an ancient Greek athlete who competed in three successive Olympic Games.
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Atlantic bluefin tuna
The Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) is a species of tuna in the family Scombridae.
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Augustus
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire.
Autostrada A2 (Italy)
Autostrada A2, otherwise known as the Autostrada del Mediterraneo ("Mediterranean Motorway") or Salerno–Reggio Calabria, is an autostrada (Italian for "motorway") long in southern Italy.
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Autostrada A30 (Italy)
The Autostrada A30 is an autostrada (Italian for "motorway") long which connects Caserta to Salerno.
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Back-arc basin
A back-arc basin is a type of geologic basin, found at some convergent plate boundaries.
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Badolato
Badolato is a comune and town in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of Italy.
Bagnara Calabra
Bagnara Calabra (or simply Bagnara) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in Calabria, southern Italy.
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Barlaam of Seminara
Barlaam of Seminara (Bernardo Massari, as a layman), c. 1290–1348, or Barlaam of Calabria (Βαρλαὰμ Καλαβρός) was a Basilian monk, theologian and humanistic scholar born in southern Italy.
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Basilian monks
Basilian monks are Greek Catholic monks who follow the rule of Basil the Great, bishop of Caesarea (330–379).
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Basilicata
Basilicata, also known by its ancient name Lucania, is an administrative region in Southern Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Apulia to the north and east, and Calabria to the south. Calabria and Basilicata are NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union, regions of Italy and wine regions of Italy.
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.
Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics was the sixteenth appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event.
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The Battle of Aspromonte, also known as the Day of Aspromonte (Giornata dell'Aspromonte), was a minor engagement that took place on 29 August 1862, and was an inconclusive episode of the Italian unification process.
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Battle of Hastings
The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.
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Belvedere Marittimo
Belvedere Marittimo is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
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Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian dictator who founded and led the National Fascist Party (PNF).
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Bergamot orange
Citrus bergamia, the bergamot orange (pronounced), is a fragrant citrus fruit the size of an orange, with a yellow or green colour similar to a lime, depending on ripeness.
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Bernardino Telesio
Bernardino Telesio (7 November 1509 – 2 October 1588) was an Italian philosopher and natural scientist.
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Biscotti
Biscotti is the Italian plural term for any type of biscuit or cookie.
Bobbin lace
Bobbin lace is a lace textile made by braiding and twisting lengths of thread, which are wound on bobbins to manage them.
Bohemond I of Antioch
Bohemond I of Antioch (5 or 7 March 1111), also known as Bohemond of Taranto or Bohemond of Hauteville, was the prince of Taranto from 1089 to 1111 and the prince of Antioch from 1098 to 1111.
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Boletus edulis
Boletus edulis (English: cep, penny bun, porcino or porcini) is a basidiomycete fungus, and the type species of the genus Boletus.
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Bombyx mori
Bombyx mori, commonly known as the domestic silk moth, is a moth species belonging to the family Bombycidae.
Borgia, Calabria
Borgia is a town and comune in the province of Catanzaro, in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
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Botte Donato
Botte Donato is a mountain in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Bovesia
Bovesia, otherwise known as Grecìa Calabra (Calabrian Greece), is one of the two remaining Griko-speaking areas in southern Italy, the other being Grecìa Salentina.
Bruno of Cologne
Bruno of Cologne (Bruno von Köln; Bruno di Colonia; – 6 October 1101), venerated as Saint Bruno, was the founder of the Carthusian Order.
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Bruttians
The Bruttians (alternative spelling, Brettii) (Bruttii) were an ancient Italic people.
Burwood, New South Wales
Burwood is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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Byzantine architecture
Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire, usually dated from 330 AD, when Constantine the Great established a new Roman capital in Byzantium, which became Constantinople, until the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453.
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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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Caciocavallo
Caciocavallo is a type of pasta filata ('stretched-curd') cheese made out of sheep's or cow's milk.
Calabrian Greek
Calabrian Greek (endonym: / Γκραίκο; Grecanico. F. Violi, Lessico Grecanico-Italiano-Grecanico, Apodiafàzzi, Reggio Calabria, 1997. Paolo Martino, L'isola grecanica dell'Aspromonte. Aspetti sociolinguistici, 1980. Risultati di un'inchiesta del 1977 Filippo Violi, Storia degli studi e della letteratura popolare grecanica, C.S.E.
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Campora San Giovanni
Campora San Giovanni (Càmpura San Giuvanni or Càmpura Santu Janni) is a frazione (borough) of the comune (municipality) of Amantea, in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy, located close to the border with the province of Catanzaro.
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Capetian House of Anjou
The Capetian House of Anjou, or House of Anjou-Sicily, or House of Anjou-Naples was a royal house and cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty.
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Capo Vaticano
Capo Vaticano is a wide bathing place in the Municipality of Ricadi in Calabria, Italy.
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Capocollo
Capocollo or coppa is a traditional Italian and French (Corsica) pork cold cut (salume) made from the dry-cured muscle running from the neck to the fourth or fifth rib of the pork shoulder or neck.
Capua
Capua is a city and comune in the province of Caserta, in the region of Campania, southern Italy, situated north of Naples, on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain.
Cariati
Cariati is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Carthusians
The Carthusians, also known as the Order of Carthusians (Ordo Cartusiensis), are a Latin enclosed religious order of the Catholic Church.
Cassiodorus
Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 – c. 585), commonly known as Cassiodorus, was a Christian, Roman statesman, renowned scholar of antiquity, and writer serving in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths.
Castrovillari
Castrovillari (Calabrian: Castruvìddari) is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
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Catanzaro
Catanzaro (or; Catanzaru), also known as the "City of the two Seas" (Città tra i due Mari), is an Italian city of 86,183 inhabitants (2020), the capital of the Calabria region and of its province and the second most populated comune of the region, behind Reggio Calabria.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Cattolica di Stilo
The Cattolica di Stilo is a Byzantine church in the comune of Stilo (Province of Reggio), Calabria, southern Italy.
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Caulonia (ancient city)
Caulonia or Caulon (Kaulōnía; also spelled Kaulonia or Kaulon) was an ancient city on the shore of the Ionian Sea near Monasterace, Italy.
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Cenobitic monasticism
Cenobitic (or coenobitic) monasticism is a monastic tradition that stresses community life.
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Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year.
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Central European Time
Central European Time (CET) is a standard time of Central, and parts of Western Europe, which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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Ceramic
A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature.
Chabad
Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch, is a branch of Orthodox Judaism, originating from Eastern Europe.
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.
Charles I of Anjou
Charles I (early 1226/12277 January 1285), commonly called Charles of Anjou or Charles d'Anjou, was a member of the royal Capetian dynasty and the founder of the second House of Anjou.
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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V (Ghent, 24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555.
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Cherimoya
The cherimoya (Annona cherimola), also spelled chirimoya and called chirimuya by the Inca people, is a species of edible fruit-bearing plant in the genus Annona, from the family Annonaceae, which includes the closely related sweetsop and soursop.
Chestnut
The chestnuts are the deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus Castanea, in the beech family Fagaceae.
Chickpea
The chickpea or chick pea (Cicer arietinum) is an annual legume of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae.
Chinotto (drink)
Chinotto is a carbonated soft drink produced from the juice of the fruit of the myrtle-leaved orange tree (Citrus myrtifolia).
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Cirò Marina
Cirò Marina is a comune and town with a population of about 14,000 people in the province of Crotone, in Calabria, Italy.
Citron
The citron (Citrus medica), historically cedrate, is a large fragrant citrus fruit with a thick rind.
Citrus
Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae.
Citrus myrtifolia
Citrus myrtifolia (chinotto), the myrtle-leaved orange tree, is a species of Citrus with foliage similar to that of the common myrtle.
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Clementine
A clementine (Citrus × clementina) is a tangor, a citrus fruit hybrid between a willowleaf mandarin orange (''C.'' × ''deliciosa'') and a sweet orange (C. × sinensis), named in honor of Clément Rodier, a French missionary who first discovered and propagated the cultivar in Algeria.
Cocaine
Cocaine (from, from, ultimately from Quechua: kúka) is a tropane alkaloid that acts as a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant.
Cod
Cod (cod) is the common name for the demersal fish genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae.
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Codex Grandior
The Codex Grandior ("Larger Codex") was a large single-volume copy of the Bible in an Old Latin translation that was made for or by Cassiodorus.
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Collins English Dictionary
The Collins English Dictionary is a printed and online dictionary of English.
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Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
Constance, Queen of Sicily
Constance I (Costanza; 2 November 1154 – 27 November 1198) was reigning Queen of Sicily from 1194–98, jointly with her spouse from 1194 to 1197, and with her infant son Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1198.
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Container port
A container port or container terminal is a facility where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation.
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Corigliano Calabro
Corigliano Calabro is a town and a frazione of Corigliano-Rossano located in the province of Cosenza, c. 40 km northeast of the city of Cosenza, in Calabria, southern Italy.
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Corigliano-Rossano
Corigliano-Rossano is a comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
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Corinth
Corinth (Kórinthos) is a municipality in Corinthia in Greece.
Cortale
Cortale (Calabrian: Curtàli) is a comune and town in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of Italy.
Cosenza
Cosenza (local dialect: Cusenza) is a city located in Calabria, Italy.
Cosenza Calcio
Cosenza Calcio S.r.l. is an Italian football club, based in Cosenza, Calabria.
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Crotone
Crotone (Cutrone or Cutruni) is a city and comune in Calabria, Italy.
Crotone Airport
Crotone-Sant'Anna Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Crotone-Sant'Anna) is a minor Italian domestic airport serving Crotone in Calabria.
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Crown of Aragon
The Crown of AragonCorona d'Aragón;Corona d'Aragó,;Corona de Aragón;Corona Aragonum.
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Culture of Greece
The culture of Greece has evolved over thousands of years, beginning in Minoan and later in Mycenaean Greece, continuing most notably into Classical Greece, while influencing the Roman Empire and its successor the Byzantine Empire.
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Denominazione di origine controllata
The following four classifications of wine constitute the Italian system of labelling and legally protecting Italian wine.
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Diamante citron
The Diamante citron (Citrus medica cv. diamante − cedro di diamante, אתרוג קלבריה or גינובה) is a variety of citron named after the town of Diamante, located in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, on the south-western coast of Italy, which is its most known cultivation point.
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Diamante, Calabria
Diamante ("diamond"; Calabrian: Diamàndë) is a coastal town and comune in the province of Cosenza, part of the Calabria region of southern Italy.
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Diaspora
A diaspora is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin.
Dino, Calabria
Dino is the larger of the two small islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the coast of Calabria.
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Dried and salted cod
Dried and salted cod, sometimes referred to as salt cod or saltfish or salt dolly, is cod which has been preserved by drying after salting.
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Duke of Calabria
Duke of Calabria was the traditional title of the heir apparent of the Kingdom of Naples after the accession of Robert of Naples.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
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Eggplant
Eggplant (US, CA, AU, NZ, PH), aubergine (UK, IE), brinjal (IN, SG, MY, ZA), or baigan (IN, GY) is a plant species in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
Embroidery
Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to stitch thread or yarn.
Emirate
An emirate is a territory ruled by an emir, a title used by monarchs or high officeholders in the Muslim world.
Eocene
The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).
Eponym
An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the primary executive arm of the European Union (EU).
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Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.
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Expedition of the Thousand
The Expedition of the Thousand (Spedizione dei Mille) was an event of the unification of Italy that took place in 1860.
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Faro Point
Faro Point (Punta del Faro) or Peloro Cape (Capo Peloro; Capu Piloru) is the northeastern promontory of Sicily situated in Messina district at northeast of the city.
Ferdinand II of Aragon
Ferdinand II (10 March 1452 – 23 January 1516) was King of Aragon from 1479 until his death in 1516.
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Fig
The fig is the edible fruit of Ficus carica, a species of small tree in the flowering plant family Moraceae, native to the Mediterranean region, together with western and southern Asia.
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Fisciano
Fisciano is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.
Fiumefreddo Bruzio
Fiumefreddo Bruzio (Calabrian: Jiumifriddu) is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
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Florence
Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.
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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Francis of Paola
Francis of Paola, OM (also known as Francis the Fire Handler; 27 March 1416 – 2 April 1507), was a Roman Catholic friar from the town of Paola in Italy who founded the Order of Minims.
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Frecciargento
Frecciargento (from freccia argento, "silver arrow") is a high-speed train of the Italian national train operator, Trenitalia, as one of its Le Frecce brands (along with Frecciarossa and Frecciabianca).
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Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick II (German: Friedrich; Italian: Federico; Latin: Fridericus; 26 December 1194 – 13 December 1250) was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 and King of Jerusalem from 1225.
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Frittole
Frittole di maiale (in Calabrian dialect frittuli, rarely in the singular frittula) is a traditional dish made of pork parts in the city of Reggio Calabria and the surrounding province.
Gabriele D'Annunzio
General Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso (12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938), sometimes written d'Annunzio as he used to sign himself, was an Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, and Royal Italian Army officer during World War I. He occupied a prominent place in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910 and in its political life from 1914 to 1924.
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Gaglioppo
Gaglioppo is a red wine grape that is grown in southern Italy, primarily around Calabria.
Genoa
Genoa (Genova,; Zêna) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy.
Geographical indications and traditional specialities in the European Union
Three European Union schemes of geographical indications and traditional specialties, known as protected designation of origin (PDO), protected geographical indication (PGI), and traditional speciality guaranteed (TSG), promote and protect names of agricultural products and foodstuffs, wines and spirits.
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Gerace
Gerace (also known as script) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy.
Gioia Tauro
Gioia Tauro is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria (Italy), on the Tyrrhenian coast.
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.
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Girifalco
Girifalco is a comune and town in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi (In his native Ligurian language, he is known as Gioxeppe Gaibado. In his particular Niçard dialect of Ligurian, he was known as Jousé or Josep. 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, patriot, revolutionary and republican.
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Gothic War (535–554)
The Gothic War between the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Emperor Justinian I and the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy took place from 535 to 554 in the Italian Peninsula, Dalmatia, Sardinia, Sicily, and Corsica.
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Greek colonisation
Greek colonisation refers to the expansion of Archaic Greeks, particularly during the 8th–6th centuries BC, across the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.
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Greek Orthodox Church
Greek Orthodox Church (Greek: Ἑλληνορθόδοξη Ἐκκλησία, Ellinorthódoxi Ekklisía) is a term that can refer to any one of three classes of Christian churches, each associated in some way with Greek Christianity, Levantine Arabic-speaking Christians or more broadly the rite used in the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..
Gregorian calendar
The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world.
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Griko language
Griko (endonym: /Γκρίκο), sometimes spelled Grico, is one of the two dialects of Italiot Greek (the other being Calabrian Greek or Grecanico), spoken by Griko people in Salento, province of Lecce, Italy.
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Griko people
The Griko people (Γκρίκο), also known as Grecanici in Calabria, are an ethnic Greek community of Southern Italy. They are found principally in regions of Calabria and Apulia (peninsula of Salento). The Griko are believed to be remnants of the once large Ancient and Medieval Greek communities of southern Italy (the ancient Magna Graecia region), although there is dispute among scholars as to whether the Griko community is directly descended from Ancient Greeks or from more recent medieval migrations during the Byzantine domination.
Guardia Piemontese
Guardia Piemontese (Occitan: La Gàrdia) is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza and the region of Calabria in southern Italy.
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Gulf of Taranto
The Gulf of Taranto (Golfo di Taranto; Tarantino: Gurfe de Tarde; Sinus Tarentinus) is a gulf of the Ionian Sea, in Southern Italy.
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Hannibal
Hannibal (translit; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.
Hanno, son of Bomilcar
Hanno (𐤇𐤍𐤀), distinguished as the son of the suffet Bomilcar, was a Carthaginian officer in the Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC).
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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.
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Height above mean sea level
Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level.
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Hemp
Hemp, or industrial hemp, is a plant in the botanical class of Cannabis sativa cultivars grown specifically for industrial and consumable use.
Herodotus
Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
History of the Jews in Calabria
The history of the Jews in Calabria reaches back over two millennia.
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Hitachi Rail Italy
Hitachi Rail Italy S.p.A. is a multinational rolling stock manufacturer company based in Pistoia, Italy.
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Hohenstaufen
The Hohenstaufen dynasty, also known as the Staufer, was a noble family of unclear origin that rose to rule the Duchy of Swabia from 1079, and to royal rule in the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages from 1138 until 1254.
Homer
Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.
Homo erectus
Homo erectus (meaning "upright man") is an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene, with its earliest occurrence about 2 million years ago.
Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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I Borghi più belli d'Italia
italics is a non-profit private association of small Italian towns of strong historical and artistic interest, that was founded in March 2001 on the initiative of the Tourism Council of the National Association of Italian Municipalities, with the aim of preserving and maintaining villages of quality heritage.
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Ibycus
Ibycus (Ἴβυκος) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, a citizen of Rhegium in Magna Graecia, probably active at Samos during the reign of the tyrant Polycrates and numbered by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria in the canonical list of nine lyric poets.
Ionian Sea
The Ionian Sea (Iónio Pélagos,; Mar Ionio or Mar Jonio,; Deti Jon) is an elongated bay of the Mediterranean Sea.
ISO 3166
ISO 3166 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states).
Isola di Capo Rizzuto
Isola di Capo Rizzuto is a comune (municipality) in the province of Crotone, Calabria, Italy.
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Italia Viaduct
Italia Viaduct is a viaduct near Laino Borgo, Calabria, Italy.
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Italian diaspora
The Italian diaspora (emigrazione italiana) is the large-scale emigration of Italians from Italy.
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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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Italian Peninsula
The Italian Peninsula (Italian: penisola italica or penisola italiana), also known as the Italic Peninsula, Apennine Peninsula or Italian Boot, is a peninsula extending from the southern Alps in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south, which comprises much of the country of Italy and the enclaved microstates of San Marino and Vatican City. Calabria and italian Peninsula are peninsulas of Italy.
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Italus
Italus or Italos (from) was a legendary king of the Oenotrians, ancient people of Italic origin who inhabited the region now called Calabria, in southern Italy.
Jacquard machine
The Jacquard machine is a device fitted to a loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelassé.
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Jasmine
Jasmine (botanical name: Jasminum) is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family of Oleaceae.
Joachim Murat
Joachim Murat (also,; Gioacchino Murat; 25 March 1767 – 13 October 1815) was a French military commander and statesman who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.
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Joe Bryant
Joseph Washington "Jellybean" Bryant (October 19, 1954 – July 15, 2024) was an American professional basketball player and coach.
Kingdom of Naples
The Kingdom of Naples (Regnum Neapolitanum; Regno di Napoli; Regno 'e Napule), was a state that ruled the part of the Italian Peninsula south of the Papal States between 1282 and 1816.
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Kingdom of Sicily
The Kingdom of Sicily (Regnum Siciliae; Regno di Sicilia; Regnu di Sicilia) was a state that existed in Sicily and the south of the Italian Peninsula plus, for a time, in Northern Africa from its founding by Roger II of Sicily in 1130 until 1816.
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Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bean Bryant (August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player.
Krimisa
Krimisa, Crimisa or Crimissa was an ancient town, probably originating in the 7th century BC, situated in modern Calabria in the region of Punta Alice.
La Giudecca
La Giudecca was a term used In Southern Italy and Sicily to identify any urban district (or a portion of a village) where Jewish communities dwelled and had their synagogues and businesses.
La Sila
La Sila, also simply Sila, is the name of the mountainous plateau and historic region located in Calabria, southern Italy.
Laüs
Laüs or Laus (Λᾶος; Laos) was an ancient city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Lactarius deliciosus
Lactarius deliciosus, commonly known as the delicious milk cap, saffron milk cap, or red pine mushroom, is one of the best known members of the large milk-cap genus Lactarius in the order Russulales.
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Lagane e ceci
Lagane e ceci or lagane e cicciari, also known as pasta del brigante, is a pasta dish originating in the Calabria region of Italy.
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Lamezia Terme
Lamezia Terme, commonly called Lamezia, is an Italian city and comune of 70,452 inhabitants (2013), in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region.
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Lamezia Terme Centrale railway station
Lamezia Terme Centrale railway station (Stazione di Lamezia Terme Centrale) is the main railway station serving the city and comune of Lamezia Terme, in the Calabria region, Southern Italy.
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Lamezia Terme International Airport
Lamezia Terme International Airport (Aeroporto Internazionale di Lamezia Terme "Sant'Eufemia") is an airport in the Sant'Eufemia district of Lamezia Terme, Calabria, Italy.
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Lamezia Terme Town Library
The Lamezia Terme Town Library is located in the historic centre of the former village of Nicastro, in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of Italy.
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Languages of Calabria
The primary languages of Calabria are the Italian language as well as regional varieties of Extreme Southern Italian and Neapolitan languages, all collectively known as Calabrian (calabrese).
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Lemon
The lemon (Citrus × limon) is a species of small evergreen tree in the flowering plant family Rutaceae, native to Asia, primarily Northeast India (Assam), Northern Myanmar, and China.
Leontius Pilatus
Leontius Pilatus (Greek: Λεόντιος Πιλάτος, Leontios Pilatos, Italian: Leonzio Pilato; died 1366) was an Italian scholar from Calabria and was one of the earliest promoters of Greek studies in Western Europe.
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Lime (fruit)
A lime is a citrus fruit, which is typically round, green in color, in diameter, and contains acidic juice vesicles.
Linen
Linen is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant.
Liquorice
Liquorice (British English) or licorice (American English) is the common name of Glycyrrhiza glabra, a flowering plant of the bean family Fabaceae, from the root of which a sweet, aromatic flavouring is extracted. The liquorice plant is an herbaceous perennial legume native to West Asia, North Africa, and Southern Europe.
List of Italian regions by Human Development Index
This is a list of 19 regions of Italy and the 2 autonomous provinces of South Tyrol and Trentino by Human Development Index as of 2022.
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List of Sicilian monarchs
The monarchs of Sicily ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Sicily in 1130 until the "perfect fusion" in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1816.
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Locri
Locri is a town and comune (municipality) in the province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy.
Locri Epizefiri
Epizephyrian Locris, also known as Locri Epizefiri, was an ancient city on the Ionian Sea, founded by Greeks coming from Locris at the beginning of the 7th century BC.
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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.
Lombardy
Lombardy (Lombardia; Lombardia) is an administrative region of Italy that covers; it is located in northern Italy and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population. Calabria and Lombardy are NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union, regions of Italy and wine regions of Italy.
Loom
A loom is a device used to weave cloth and tapestry.
Louis XI
Louis XI (3 July 1423 – 30 August 1483), called "Louis the Prudent" (le Prudent), was King of France from 1461 to 1483.
Lucania
Lucania was a historical region of Southern Italy, corresponding to the modern-day region of Basilicata. Calabria and Lucania are regions of Italy.
Lycaon (king of Arcadia)
In Greek mythology, Lycaon (/laɪˈkeɪɒn/; Λυκάων, Lukáо̄n) was a king of Arcadia who, in the most popular version of the myth, killed and cooked his son Nyctimus and served him to Zeus, to see whether the god was sufficiently all-knowing to recognize human flesh.
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Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), formerly spelled in English as Lyons, is the second largest city of France by urban area It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne.
Mafia
"Mafia" is an informal term that is used to describe criminal organizations that bear a strong similarity to the organized crime groups from Italy.
Magna Graecia
Magna Graecia is a term that was used for the Greek-speaking areas of Southern Italy, in the present-day Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania and Sicily; these regions were extensively populated by Greek settlers starting from the 8th century BC.
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Magna Græcia University
The Magna Græcia University of Catanzaro (Università degli studi Magna Græcia di Catanzaro) is a university located in Catanzaro, Italy.
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Mammola
Mammola is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about southwest of Catanzaro and about northeast of Reggio Calabria.
Mandarin orange
The mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata), also known as mandarin or mandarine, is a small, rounded citrus tree fruit.
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Manu Ginóbili
Emanuel David Ginóbili Maccari (born 28 July 1977) is an Argentine former professional basketball player.
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March (territory)
In medieval Europe, a march or mark was, in broad terms, any kind of borderland, as opposed to a state's "heartland".
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Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria
Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria (Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria), also referred to as Mediterranea University or University of Reggio Calabria, or simply UNIRC, is an Italian public research university, located in Reggio Calabria, Italy.
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Mediterranean climate
A Mediterranean climate, also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen as Cs, is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude).
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Mediterranean cuisine
Mediterranean cuisine is the food and methods of preparation used by the people of the Mediterranean Basin.
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Medma
Medma or Mesma (Greek: Μέδμη, Steph. B.; Μέδμα, Strabo, Scymn. Ch.; but Μέσμα on coins, and so Apollodorus of Damascus, cited by Steph. B.; Scylax has Μέσα, evidently a corruption for Μέσμα), was an ancient Greek city of Magna Graecia, on the west coast of the Bruttian (now Calabrian) peninsula, between Hipponium and the mouth of the Metaurus (probably today's River Petrace).
Milo of Croton
Milo or Milon of Croton (late 6th century BC) was a famous ancient Greek athlete from the Greek colony of Croton in Magna Graecia.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
Monasterace
Monasterace (Monaseraci) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about south of Catanzaro and about northeast of Reggio Calabria.
Montalto Uffugo
Montalto Uffugo (Calabrian: Muntàvutu) is a city and comune of the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
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Montauro
Montauro (Calabrian: Mentràvu) is a comune and town in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of Italy.
Montepaone
Montepaone (Calabrian: Muntipaùna) is a town and comune of the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Morus (plant)
Morus, a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, consists of 19 species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, growing wild and under cultivation in many temperate world regions.
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Municipality of Burwood
The Municipality of Burwood (also known as Burwood Council) is a local government area in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia
The Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia (National Museum of Magna Græcia), Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Reggio Calabria (National Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria) or Palazzo Piacentini is a museum in Reggio Calabria, southern Italy, housing an archaeological collection from sites in Magna Graecia.
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Muslim Sicily
The island of SicilyIn Arabic, the island was known as.
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Name of Italy
The etymology of the name of Italy has been the subject of reconstructions by linguists and historians.
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Naples
Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
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Neapolitan language
Neapolitan (autonym: ('o n)napulitano; napoletano) is a Romance language of the Italo-Romance group spoken in Naples and most of continental Southern Italy.
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Neogene
The Neogene is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period million years ago.
Nicotera
Nicotera (Calabrian: Nicòtra; translit) is a comune (municipality) in the province of Vibo Valentia, Calabria, southern Italy.
Nilus the Younger
Nilus the Younger, also called Neilos of Rossano (Nilo di Rossano, el. Αποστολική Διακονία της Εκκλησίας της Ελλάδος.; 910 – 27 December 1005) was a Griko monk and abbot from Calabria.
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Nine Lyric Poets
The Nine Lyric or Melic Poets were a canonical group of ancient Greek poets esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria as worthy of critical study.
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Nocera Terinese
Nocera Terinese is a town and comune of the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
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Norman conquest of southern Italy
The Norman conquest of southern Italy lasted from 999 to 1194, involving many battles and independent conquerors.
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Normans
The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia.
Northern Italy
Northern Italy (Italia settentrionale, label, label) is a geographical and cultural region in the northern part of Italy. Calabria and northern Italy are regions of Italy.
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Nossis
Nossis (Νοσσίς) was a Hellenistic poet from Epizephyrian Locris in Magna Graecia.
Occitan language
Occitan (occitan), also known as (langue d'oc) by its native speakers, sometimes also referred to as Provençal, is a Romance language spoken in Southern France, Monaco, Italy's Occitan Valleys, as well as Spain's Val d'Aran in Catalonia; collectively, these regions are sometimes referred to as Occitania.
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Occitans
The Occitans (occitans) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group originating in the historical region of Occitania (southern France, northeastern Spain, and northwestern Italy and Monaco).
Oenotrians
The Oenotrians or Enotrians (tribe led by Oenotrus' or 'people from the land of vines) were an ancient Italic people who inhabited a territory in Southern Italy from Paestum to southern Calabria.
Oenotrus
In Greek mythology, Oenotrus (Oínōtros) was the youngest of fifty sons of Lycaon from Arcadia.
Olive
The olive, botanical name Olea europaea, meaning 'European olive', is a species of small tree or shrub in the family Oleaceae, found traditionally in the Mediterranean Basin.
Olive oil
Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained by pressing whole olives, the fruit of Olea europaea, a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin, and extracting the oil.
Operation Baytown
Operation Baytown was an Allied amphibious landing on the mainland of Italy that took place on 3 September 1943, part of the Allied invasion of Italy, itself part of the Italian Campaign, during the Second World War.
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Opuntia
Opuntia, commonly called the prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, many known for their flavorful fruit and showy flowers.
Orange (fruit)
An orange, also called sweet orange when it is desired to distinguish it from the bitter orange (Citrus × aurantium), is the fruit of a tree in the family Rutaceae.
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Organic farming
Organic farming, also known as ecological farming or biological farming,Labelling, article 30 of is an agricultural system that uses fertilizers of organic origin such as compost manure, green manure, and bone meal and places emphasis on techniques such as crop rotation and companion planting.
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Ostrogothic Kingdom
The Ostrogothic Kingdom, officially the Kingdom of Italy (Regnum Italiae), was a barbarian kingdom established by the Germanic Ostrogoths that controlled Italy and neighbouring areas between 493 and 553.
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Paestum
Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Magna Graecia.
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.
Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
Palermo
Palermo (Palermu, locally also Paliemmu or Palèimmu) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province.
Pallagorio
Pallagorio (Puhëriu, Calabrese: Paragùriu) is a comune and town in the province of Crotone, in Calabria, Italy.
Palmi, Calabria
Palmi (Parmi; Palmae) is a comune (municipality) of about 19,303 inhabitants in the province of Reggio Calabria in Calabria.
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Pandosia (Bruttium)
Pandosia (Πανδοσία) was an ancient city in Bruttium, in what is now Calabria, southern Italy. Calabria and Pandosia (Bruttium) are Bruttium.
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Paola, Calabria
Paola (Calabrian: Pàula) is an Italian comune of 15,408 inhabitants in the province of Cosenza in Calabria.
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Papasidero
Papasidero is a village and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region, southern Italy.
Parghelia
Parghelia is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Vibo Valentia in the Italian region Calabria, located about southwest of Catanzaro and about west of Vibo Valentia.
Peach
The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree first domesticated and cultivated in Zhejiang province of Eastern China.
Peloritani
The Peloritani (Sicilian: Piluritani, Monti Peloritani) are a mountain range of north-eastern Sicily, in southern Italy, extending for some from Capo Peloro to the Nebrodi Mountains.
Petelia
Petilia or Petelia (Πετηλία) was a city name found in some ancient works of classical antiquity.
Petrarch
Francis Petrarch (20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; Franciscus Petrarcha; modern Francesco Petrarca), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar from Arezzo and poet of the early Italian Renaissance and one of the earliest humanists.
Petrizzi
Petrizzi is a comune and town in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of Italy.
Pignolata
Pignolata (Sicilian: pignulata) is a Sicilian pastry originating in the city of Messina.
Pinus heldreichii
Pinus heldreichii (synonym P. leucodermis; family Pinaceae), the Bosnian pine or Heldreich's pine, is a species of pine native to mountainous areas of the Balkans and southern Italy.
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Pizzo, Calabria
Pizzo (U Pizzu), also called Pizzo Calabro, is a seaport and comune in the province of Vibo Valentia (Calabria, southern Italy), situated on a steep cliff overlooking the Gulf of Saint Euphemia.
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Platania
Platania is a comune and town in the province of Catanzaro in the western part of the Calabria region of Italy.
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
Pollino
The Pollino (Italian: Massiccio del Pollino) is a massif in the southern Apennines, on the border between Basilicata and Calabria, southern Italy, being the highest point of both regions.
Pollino National Park
Pollino National Park (Italian: Parco Nazionale del Pollino) is an Italian national park in the southern peninsula, in the provinces of Cosenza, Matera and Potenza.
See Calabria and Pollino National Park
Pope Clement IV
Pope Clement IV (Clemens IV; 23 November 1190 – 29 November 1268), born Gui Foucois (Guido Falcodius; Guy de Foulques or Guy Foulques) and also known as Guy le Gros (French for "Guy the Fat"; Guido il Grosso), was bishop of Le Puy (1257–1260), archbishop of Narbonne (1259–1261), cardinal of Sabina (1261–1265), and head of the Catholic Church from 5 February 1265 until his death.
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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 Urban II
Pope Urban II (Urbanus II; – 29 July 1099), otherwise known as Odo of Châtillon or Otho de Lagery, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 March 1088 to his death.
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Port of Gioia Tauro
The Port of Gioia Tauro is a large seaport in southern Italy.
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Port of Reggio
The Port of Reggio is a seaport in the Mediterranean Sea serving the Italian city of Reggio Calabria.
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Praia a Mare
Praia a Mare is a town and comune of the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of Italy.
Protected designation of origin
The protected designation of origin (PDO) is a type of geographical indication of the European Union aimed at preserving the designations of origin of food-related products.
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Province of Catanzaro
The province of Catanzaro (provincia di Catanzaro; Catanzarese: pruvincia e Catanzaru) is a province of the Calabria region of Italy.
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Province of Cosenza
The province of Cosenza (provincia di Cosenza) is a province in the Calabria region of Italy.
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Province of Crotone
The province of Crotone (provincia di Crotone) is a province in the Calabria region of Italy.
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Province of Vibo Valentia
The province of Vibo Valentia (provincia di Vibo Valentia; Vibonese: pruvincia i Vibbu Valenzia) is a province in the Calabria region of Italy, set up by a national law of 6 March 1992, which came into effect on 1 January 1996, and formerly part of the province of Catanzaro.
See Calabria and Province of Vibo Valentia
Punta Pezzo
Punta Pezzo is a point in Reggio Calabria, southern Italy.
Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos (Πυθαγόρας; BC) was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.
Ragusa, Sicily
Ragusa (Rausa; Ragusia) is a city and comune in southern Italy.
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Red onion
Red onions (also known as purple or blue onions in some mainland European countries) are cultivars of the onion (Allium cepa), and have purplish-red skin and white flesh tinged with red.
Reggio Calabria
Reggio di Calabria (Riggiu; Rìji), commonly and officially referred to as Reggio Calabria, or simply Reggio by its inhabitants, is the largest city in Calabria as well as the seat of the Regional Council of Calabria.
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Reggio Calabria Airport
Reggio di Calabria "Tito Minniti" Airport, also known as Aeroporto dello Stretto (Airport of the Strait) is an airport located in Reggio Calabria, in southern Italy.
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Reggio revolt
The Reggio revolt occurred in Reggio Calabria, Italy, from July 1970 to February 1971.
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Regions of Italy
The regions of Italy (regioni d'Italia) are the first-level administrative divisions of the Italian Republic, constituting its second NUTS administrative level. Calabria and regions of Italy are NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
Renaissance humanism
Renaissance humanism was a worldview centered on the nature and importance of humanity that emerged from the study of Classical antiquity.
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Rende
Rende is a comune (municipality) in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy, home to the headquarters of the University of Calabria.
Revolutions of 1848
The revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the springtime of the peoples or the springtime of nations, were a series of revolutions throughout Europe over the course of more than one year, from 1848 to 1849.
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Riace bronzes
The Riace bronzes (Italian: Bronzi di Riace), also called the Riace Warriors, are two full-size Greek bronze statues of naked bearded warriors, cast about 460–450 BC that were found in the sea in 1972 near Riace, Calabria, in southern Italy.
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Ricadi
Ricadi (translit) is a small rural town, as well as a municipality, located along the Tyrrhenian coast, in the province of Vibo Valentia, in the Italian region of Calabria.
Robert Guiscard
Robert "Guiscard" de Hauteville, sometimes Robert "the Guiscard" (Modern; – 17 July 1085), was a Norman adventurer remembered for his conquest of southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th century.
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Roberto Occhiuto
Roberto Occhiuto (born 13 May 1969), is an Italian politician.
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Roccella Ionica
Roccella Ionica (also known as Roccella Jonica or simply as Roccella (Roccellese: Rucceja) is a town and comune located on the Ionian Sea in Calabria, southern Italy. Possibly built on the site of the ancient Greek settlement of Amphissa, Roccella is probably best known for hosting a major annual jazz festival.
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Roger I of Sicily
Roger I (Ruggero; Rujār; Ruġġieru; Norse: Rogierr; – 22 June 1101), nicknamed “Roger Bosso” and “Grand Count Roger”, was a Norman nobleman who became the first Grand Count of Sicily from 1071 to 1101.
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Roger II of Sicily
Roger II or Roger the Great (Ruggero II, Ruggeru II, Greek: Ρογέριος; 22 December 1095 – 26 February 1154) was King of Sicily and Africa, son of Roger I of Sicily and successor to his brother Simon.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Locri-Gerace
The Diocese of Locri-Gerace (Dioecesis Locrensis-Hieracensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Calabria.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Roman Italy
Italia (in both the Latin and Italian languages), also referred to as Roman Italy, was the homeland of the ancient Romans.
Roman question
The Roman question (Questione romana; Quaestio Romana) was a dispute regarding the temporal power of the popes as rulers of a civil territory in the context of the Italian Risorgimento.
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Romanization (cultural)
Romanization or Latinization (Romanisation or Latinisation), in the historical and cultural meanings of both terms, indicate different historical processes, such as acculturation, integration and assimilation of newly incorporated and peripheral populations by the Roman Republic and the later Roman Empire.
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Romito Cave
The Romito cave (Grotta del Romito) is a natural limestone cave in the Lao Valley of Pollino National Park, near the town of Papasidero in Calabria, Italy.
Rosarno
Rosarno is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region of Calabria.
Roseto Capo Spulico
Roseto Capo Spulico is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
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Rossano
Rossano is a town and frazione of Corigliano-Rossano in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, southern Italy.
Salento
Salento (Salentino: Salentu, Salentino Griko: Σαλέντο), also known as Terra d'Otranto, is a cultural, historical and geographic region at the southern end of the administrative region of Apulia, in southern Italy. Calabria and Salento are peninsulas of Italy.
Salerno
Salerno (Salierno) is an ancient city and comune (municipality) in Campania, southwestern Italy, and is the capital of the namesake province, being the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants, after Naples.
Samo, Calabria
Samo (Samu) is a small town and comune located in the Province of Reggio Calabria, southern Italy.
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San Demetrio Corone
San Demetrio Corone (Arbëreshë: Shën Mitri) is a town and municipality in the Calabria region of Italy, at an altitude of 521 meters and with 3,387 inhabitants.
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San Floro
San Floro is a comune and town in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of Italy.
San Giovanni in Fiore
San Giovanni in Fiore (Sangiuvanni) is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
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San Marco Argentano
San Marco Argentano is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
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San Nicola Arcella
San Nicola Arcella is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
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Santa Maria del Cedro
Santa Maria del Cedro is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy.
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Santo Stefano in Aspromonte is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about southwest of Catanzaro and about northeast of Reggio Calabria.
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Saracen
German woodcut depicting Saracens Saracen was a term used both in Greek and Latin writings between the 5th and 15th centuries to refer to the people who lived in and near what was designated by the Romans as Arabia Petraea and Arabia Deserta.
Sardine
Sardine and pilchard are common names for various species of small, oily forage fish in the herring family Clupeidae.
Scalea
Scalea (Calabrian: Scalìa, lit. "stair" or "ladder") is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.
Scidrus
Scidrus, also known as Skidros (Σκίδρος), was an ancient Greek city of Magna Graecia on the coast of Lucania, on the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Pyxus (Buxentum) and Laüs.
Scilla
Scilla is a genus of about 30 to 80 species of bulb-forming perennial herbaceous plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae.
Scilla, Calabria
Scilla (U Scigghiu) is a town and comune in Calabria, Italy, administratively part of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria.
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Scyllaeum
Scyllaeum (Greek: τὸ Σκύλλαιον) was a promontory, and ancient town or fortress, on the west coast of Bruttium (modern Calabria), about 25 km north of Rhegium (Reggio di Calabria), and almost exactly at the entrance of the Sicilian strait. Calabria and Scyllaeum are Bruttium.
Scylletium
Scylletium or Skylletion or Scolacium was an ancient seaside city in Calabria, southern Italy. Calabria and Scylletium are Bruttium.
Sellia Marina
Sellia Marina is a town and comune in the province of Catanzaro, in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
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Seminara
For people with the surname, see Seminara (surname). Seminara is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about southwest of Catanzaro and about northeast of Reggio Calabria.
Sericulture
Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk.
Serra San Bruno
Serra San Bruno (Calabrian: La Serra) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Vibo Valentia in the Italian region Calabria, located about southwest of Catanzaro and about southeast of Vibo Valentia.
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Serrastretta
Serrastretta is a town and comune in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Serre Calabresi
The Serre Calabresi or Calabrian Serre (Calabrian dialect: Serra) are a mountain and hill area of Calabria, southern Italy, characterized by large extents of woods.
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Servizio Meteorologico
The Italian Meteorological Service is an organizational unit of the Italian Air Force and the national meteorological service in Italy.
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Sfalassà Viaduct
Sfalassà Viaduct is a viaduct near Bagnara Calabra, Calabria, Italy.
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Sibari
Sibari is an Italian frazione of the comune (municipality) of Cassano allo Ionio.
Sicilian language
Sicilian (sicilianu,; siciliano) is a Romance language that is spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands.
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Sicilian Vespers
The Sicilian Vespers (Vespri siciliani; Vespiri siciliani) was a successful rebellion on the island of Sicily that broke out at Easter 1282 against the rule of the French-born king Charles I of Anjou, who had ruled the Kingdom of Sicily since 1266.
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Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Calabria and Sicily are NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union, regions of Italy and wine regions of Italy.
Sicily (theme)
Sicily (θέμα Σικελίας, Thema Sikelias) was a Byzantine province (theme) existing from the late 7th to the 10th century, encompassing the islands of Sicily and Malta, and the region of Calabria in the Italian mainland.
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Siderno
Siderno (Sidernu or Siderni) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy, about 3 kilometres from Locri.
Sila National Park
Sila National Park (Italian: Parco Nazionale della Sila) is an Italian national park in Calabria.
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Silk
Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi (29 September 1936 – 12 June 2023) was an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011.
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Soft drink
A soft drink (see § Terminology for other names) is any water-based flavored drink, usually but not necessarily carbonated, and typically including added sweetener.
Soppressata
Soppressata is an Italian dry salume.
Southern Italy
Southern Italy (Sud Italia,, or Italia meridionale,; 'o Sudde; Italia dû Suddi), also known as Meridione or Mezzogiorno (Miezojuorno; Menzujornu), is a macroregion of Italy consisting of its southern regions. Calabria and southern Italy are regions of Italy.
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Soverato
Soverato (Calabrian: Suvaràtu) is a town and comune in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of Southern Italy.
Soveria Mannelli
Soveria Mannelli (Suverìa Mannielli) is a town and comune in the province of Catanzaro, in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
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Spartium
Spartium junceum, known as Spanish broom, rush broom, or weaver's broom, it is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and the sole species in the genus Spartium.
Spezzano della Sila
Spezzano della Sila (Calabrian: Spezzànu or Spezzànu Rànnë) is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza, in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
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Spilinga
Spilinga is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Vibo Valentia in the Italian region Calabria, located about southwest of Catanzaro and about west of Vibo Valentia.
Squillace
Squillace (script; Skyllḗtion; Skylákion) is an ancient town and comune in the Province of Catanzaro, part of Calabria, Southern Italy.
Stalettì
Stalettì is a town and comune in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Stazione Sperimentale per le Industrie delle Essenze e dei Derivati dagli Agrumi
The Stazione Sperimentale per le Industrie delle Essenze e dei Derivati dagli Agrumi (SSEA) (Experimental Station for the Industry of the Essential oils and Citrus products) is a special Agency of the Chamber of Commerce in Reggio Calabria.
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Stesichorus
Stesichorus (Στησίχορος, Stēsichoros; c. 630 – 555 BC) was a Greek lyric poet native of Metauros (Gioia Tauro today).
Stilo
Stilo (Calabrian: Stilu; lit) is a town and comune in the province of Reggio Calabria, in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Strada statale 106 Jonica
Strada statale 106 Jonica (SS 106) is an Italian state highway which extends for 491 km from Reggio Calabria to Taranto, covering the whole coast Jonica in Calabria, Basilicata and parts of Apulia.
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Strada statale 18 Tirrena Inferiore
The strada statale 18 "Tirrena Inferiore" (SS 18) is an Italian state road, connecting Campania and Calabria.
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Strait of Messina
The Strait of Messina (Stretto di Messina; Strittu di Missina) is a narrow strait between the eastern tip of Sicily (Punta del Faro) and the western tip of Calabria (Punta Pezzo) in Southern Italy.
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Strait of Messina Bridge
The Strait of Messina Bridge (Ponte sullo stretto di Messina) is a planned 3.6-kilometre suspension bridge across the Strait of Messina, connecting Torre Faro in Sicily with Villa San Giovanni in the Italian Peninsula.
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Strait of Sicily
The Strait of Sicily (also known as Sicilian Strait, Sicilian Channel, Channel of Sicily, Sicilian Narrows and Pantelleria Channel; Canale di Sicilia or the Stretto di Sicilia; Canali di Sicilia or Strittu di Sicilia, مضيق صقلية or مضيق الوطن القبلي) is the strait between Sicily and Tunisia.
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Straw
Straw is an agricultural byproduct consisting of the dry stalks of cereal plants after the grain and chaff have been removed.
Strongoli
Strongoli is a comune and town with a population of over 6000 people in the province of Crotone, in Calabria, southernmost Italy.
Subduction
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.
Sukkot
Sukkot is a Torah-commanded holiday celebrated for seven days, beginning on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei.
Suspension bridge
A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders.
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Swordfish
The swordfish (Xiphias gladius), also known as the broadbill in some countries, are large, highly migratory predatory fish characterized by a long, flat, pointed bill.
Sybaris
Sybaris (Σύβαρις; Sibari) was an important ancient Greek city situated on the coast of the Gulf of Taranto in modern Calabria, Italy.
Tarantella
Tarantella is a group of various southern Italian folk dances originating in the regions of Calabria, Campania and Puglia.
Taranto
Taranto (Tarde) is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy.
Temesa (ancient city)
Temesa (Τεμέση or Τεμέσα), later called Tempsa, was an ancient city in Italy, on the shore of the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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Terina (ancient city)
Terina (Τερίνα and Τέρινα) was an ancient city located on the Piano di Tirena hill in Nocera Terinese about from Lamezia Terme in Calabria.
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The City of the Sun
The City of the Sun (La città del sole; Civitas solis) is a philosophical work by the Italian Dominican philosopher Tommaso Campanella.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
Thebes, Greece
Thebes (Θήβα, Thíva; Θῆβαι, Thêbai.) is a city in Boeotia, Central Greece, and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
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Thurii
Thurii (Latin: Thūriī, Thoúrioi), called also by some Latin writers Thūrium (compare Thoúrion, in Ptolemy), and later in Roman times also Cōpia and Cōpiae, was an ancient Greek city situated on the Gulf of Taranto, near or on the site of the great renowned city of Sybaris, whose place it may be considered as having taken.
Tiriolo
Tiriolo is a town and comune in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Tommaso Campanella
Tommaso Campanella (5 September 1568 – 21 May 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.
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Tropea
Tropea (Trupìa; Tropaea; Trápeia) is a municipality in the province of Vibo Valentia, in the Italian region of Calabria.
Tyrrhenian Sea
The Tyrrhenian Sea (Mar Tirreno or)Mer Tyrrhénienne Tyrrhēnum mare, Mare Tirrenu, Mari Tirrenu, Mari Tirrenu, Mare Tirreno is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy.
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Università per stranieri "Dante Alighieri" di Reggio Calabria
The Università per stranieri Dante Alighieri di Reggio Calabria, often simply abbreviated as "Unistrad" is a private university founded in 2007 in Reggio Calabria, Italy.
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University of Calabria
The University of Calabria (Università della Calabria, UNICAL) is a state-run university in Italy.
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Vatican City
Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign country, city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy.
Venice
Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
Via Francigena
The Via Francigena is an ancient road and pilgrimage route running from the cathedral city of Canterbury in England, through France and Switzerland, to Rome and then to Apulia, Italy, where there were ports of embarkation for the Holy Land.
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Vibo Valentia
Vibo Valentia (Monteleone before 1861; Monteleone di Calabria from 1861 to 1928; Vibbu Valenzia or Muntalaùni) is a city and comune (municipality) in the Italian region of Calabria, near the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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Victor Emmanuel III
Victor Emmanuel III (11 November 1869 – 28 December 1947), born Vittorio Emanuele Ferdinando Maria Gennaro di Savoia, was King of Italy from 29 July 1900 until his abdication on 9 May 1946.
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Villa San Giovanni
Villa San Giovanni (Villa San Giuanni) is a port city and a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria of Calabria, Italy.
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Vino Greco
Vino Greco is the name of a wine style which originated, at least 2,150 years ago, as an Italian imitation of the sweet, strong Greek wines that were exported to Italy at the period of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.
Viola Reggio Calabria
Viola Reggio Calabria is an Italian professional basketball club based in Reggio Calabria, Calabria.
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Vivarium (monastery)
The Vivarium was a monastery founded around the year 544 by Roman statesman, Cassiodorus near Squillace, in Calabria, Italy.
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Vivaro-Alpine dialect
Vivaro-Alpine (vivaroalpenc, vivaroaupenc) is a variety of Occitan spoken in southeastern France (namely, around the Dauphiné area) and northwestern Italy (the Occitan Valleys of Piedmont and Liguria).
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West Virginia
West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Wool
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids.
Zaleucus
Zaleucus (Ζάλευκος; fl. 7th century BC) was the Greek lawgiver of Epizephyrian Locris, in Magna Graecia.
Zambrone
Zambrone (Calabrian: Zambrònë) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Vibo Valentia in the Italian region Calabria, located about southwest of Catanzaro and about northwest of Vibo Valentia.
1783 Calabrian earthquakes
The 1783 Calabrian earthquakes were a sequence of five strong earthquakes that hit the region of Calabria in southern Italy (then part of the Kingdom of Naples), the first two of which produced significant tsunamis.
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1905 Calabria earthquake
Striking southern Italy on 8 September, the 1905 Calabria earthquake had a moment magnitude of 7.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme).
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1908 Messina earthquake
A devastating earthquake occurred on 28 December 1908 in Sicily and Calabria, southern Italy with a moment magnitude of 7.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme).
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2023–24 Serie B
The 2023–24 Serie B (known as the Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons) was the 92nd season of the Serie B since its establishment in 1929.
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2023–24 Serie C
The 2023–24 Serie C, officially known as Serie C NOW for sponsorship, was the tenth season of the unified Serie C division, the third tier of the Italian football league system.
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8th century BC
The 8th century BC started the first day of 800 BC and ended the last day of 701 BC.
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See also
Bruttium
- Ad Turres (Bruttium)
- Blanda (city)
- Calabria
- Caprasia
- Crati
- Lao (Italian river)
- Macalla (ancient city)
- Pandosia (Bruttium)
- Scyllaeum
- Scylletium
Peninsulas of Italy
- Calabria
- Capo di Milazzo
- Gargano
- Italian Peninsula
- Monte Argentario
- Mount Circeo
- Orbetello
- Salento
- Sorrento Peninsula
- Talamone
- Torre Astura
Regions of Italy
- Abruzzo
- Aosta Valley
- Apulia
- Basilicata
- Calabria
- Campania
- Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces
- Economy of Abruzzo
- Emilia-Romagna
- Flags of regions of Italy
- Friuli-Venezia Giulia
- ISO 3166-2:IT
- Lazio
- Liguria
- List of Italian regions by GDP
- List of Italian regions by GRDP per capita
- List of current presidents of regions of Italy
- Lombardy
- Lucania
- Marche
- Meridionalism
- Molise
- Montefeltro
- Northern Italy
- Piedmont
- Regions of Italy
- Samnium
- Sicily
- Southern Italy
- Tuscany
- Umbria
- Upper Mantua
- Veneto
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabria
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