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Hace 5 días · Southern Italy was governed by the long-lasting Kingdom of Sicily or Kingdom of Naples, which had been established by the Normans. Central Italy was governed by the pope as a temporal kingdom known as the Papal States.
Hace 2 días · 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.
Hace 4 días · Prince (later King) Ferdinand of Naples, angry that his grandson-in-law, Gian Galeazzo, duke of Milan, was excluded from power, threatened the regent, Ludovico. In reply, Ludovico successfully urged King Charles VIII of France to vindicate the claims of the French royal house to Naples.
Hace 4 días · He was Count of Provence (1246–1285) and Forcalquier (1246–1248, 1256–1285) in the Holy Roman Empire, Count of Anjou and Maine (1246–1285) in France; he was also King of Sicily (1266–1285) and Prince of Achaea (1278–1285).
Hace 4 días · Italy - Unification, Risorgimento, Cavour: The Congress of Vienna (1814–15), held by the victorious allies to restore the prerevolutionary European political status quo, determined that the Bourbons should be returned to Naples.
Hace 2 días · Despite scant preparations and a shortage of weapons, Garibaldi’s volunteers landed at Marsala on May 11, 1860, and in less than three months conquered the entire island of Sicily. Garibaldi’s daring and skill and the indigenous revolutionary ferment accounted for the success of the expedition.
Hace 2 días · 4 Eugene H. Byrne’s 1928 study is one of the earliest to examine the relationship between Genoa and Jubail in the crusader period, ‘The Genoese Colonies in Syria’, in The Crusades and Other Historical Essays Presented to Dana C. Munro, ed. Louis John Paetow (New York, 1928), 139–82.Merav Mack was the first to highlight the importance of the Byblos/Jubail toponym among the Levantine ...
