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The Kingdom of Sicily (Latin: Regnum Siciliae; Italian: Regno di Sicilia; Sicilian: Regnu di Sicilia) was a state that existed in the south of the Italian Peninsula and, for a time, in Northern Africa from its founding by Roger II of Sicily in 1130 until 1816.
- Kingdom of Africa
The "Kingdom of Africa" (Regno d'Africa) pinpointed in...
- Sicilian Vespers
The Sicilian Vespers (Italian: Vespri siciliani; Sicilian:...
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ( Italian: Regno delle Due...
- Sicily
Sicily was ruled during the Early Middle Ages by the...
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Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, state that united the southern part of the Italian peninsula with the island of Sicily between the mid-15th and the mid-19th centuries. (For a brief history of the state, see Naples, Kingdom of.) United by the Normans in the 11th century, the two areas were divided in
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Other articles where Kingdom of Sicily is discussed: Palermo: …the founding of the Norman kingdom of Sicily in 1130 by Roger II. Palermo became the capital of this kingdom, in which Greeks, Arabs, Jews, and Normans worked together with singular harmony to create a cosmopolitan culture of remarkable vitality.
3 days ago · In 965 the island fell to Arab conquest from North Africa, in 1060 to Normans, who progressively Latinized the island. In the 12th and 13th centuries the island formed a part of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (or Naples), and in the 18th century Sicily was ruled by the Bourbons.
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The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1734–1860) was the oldest and largest of the Italian states in the nineteenth century, and its collapse in 1860 unexpectedly ensured Italy's political unification. After two centuries of Spanish rule and then a brief Austrian occupation, the kingdom became an independent dynastic state ruled by a cadet branch ...
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