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5 days ago · Sicilian people walking in Catania, Italy. The Sicilians ( Sicilian: Siciliani ), or Sicilian people, are a Romance -speaking ethnic group who are indigenous to the island of Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the largest and most populous of the autonomous regions of Italy .
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1 day ago · Besides Pope Leo IX’s campaign in Civitate in 1053, Footnote 13 these origins can be traced back to the early twelfth century, to the struggle between Innocent II and the Norman ruler of Sicily, Roger II, due to his support of the antipope Anacletus II. Innocent aimed to elevate the conflict against Roger to the status of holy war, with the ...
5 days ago · It was under his nephew Roger II of Sicily that Norman holdings in Sicily and the southern part of the Italian Peninsula were promoted from the County of Sicily into the Kingdom of Sicily. The kingdom's capital was Palermo, with the King's Court held at the Palazzo dei Normanni.
3 days ago · This small town is located 679 meters above sea level in the heart of the Iblei Mountains. It is famous not only for its magnificent location, which has earned it the nickname Balcony of Sicily by offeringspectacular views ranging from Mount Etna to Gela, but also for its excellent oil, considered among the best in Italy.
Dismayed by Alberto's surprise attack on and near wiping out of Venice, Gregory moved to excommunicate King Roger of Sicily. Roger wasted no time. He stormed Rome (his spies opened the gate), killed Gregory in battle and took the Eternal City. It was the winter of 1148.
5 days ago · Every Feb. 5, the Church remembers St. Agatha of Catania, a young woman who consecrated her virginity to God and died a martyr’s death during the persecution of the Roman Emperor Decius in the third century. Agatha was born in Catania, Sicily, in southern Italy, around the year 230.
3 days ago · Etterlin. The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis powers ( Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany ).