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5 days ago · This list contains all European emperors, kings and regent princes and their consorts as well as well-known crown princes since the Middle Ages, whereas the lists are starting with either the beginning of the monarchy or with a change of the dynasty (e.g. England with the Norman king William the Conqueror, Spain with the unification of Castile and Aragon, Sweden with the Vasa dynasty, etc.).
4 days ago · Italy Satellite Map. Altogether, Italy occupies an area of 301,340 square kilometers (116,350 sq mi). This makes its landmass smaller than Poland and larger than New Zealand . The country shares a coastline of about 7,600 kilometers (4,722 miles). According to the FAO, forests cover 31% of Italy.
4 days ago · Henry III in 1252 granted the barony to his brother Richard of Cornwall, King of the Romans, on his marriage with Sanchia of Provence. (fn. 109) He was succeeded by his son Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, (fn. 110) on whose death in 1300 it was assigned in dower to his widow Margaret de Clare.
1 day ago · Marseille or Marseilles ( French Marseille, Occitan Marselha or Marsiho) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the Provence region of southern France, it is located on the coast of the Gulf of Lion, part of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river.
2 days ago · Howell deals subtly with the swings and roundabouts of thirteenth-century European alliances and carefully measures the disadvantages and advantages of the match. Henry III and Eleanor were married at Canterbury on 14 January 1236. Undoubtedly the strongest theme throughout this book is family.
2 days ago · Sardinia. Sardinia (/ s ɑːr ˈ d ɪ n i ə / sar-DIN-ee-ə; Italian: Sardegna [sarˈdeɲɲa]; Sardinian: Sardigna [saɾˈdiɲːa]) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia and immediately south of the French island ...
5 days ago · The name Italy is derived from the Greek word “Italos,” which was the name of a legendary king. According to various legends, Italus was the king of the Oenotrians, a group of people who lived 16 generations before the Trojan War. It is said that the name “Italy” originated from Italus, and it has been used for over 3,000 years to refer ...
