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Ancona: Encyclopedia - Ancona

Ancona is a city and a seaport in the Marche, a region of northeastern Italy, population 100,507 (2001). Ancona is situated on the Adriatic Sea and is the center of an eponymous province and the capital of the region. The city is located 133 miles northeast of Rome and 127 miles southeast of Bologna. The name Ancona means "elbow" (from Greek *ankon 'elbow'), referring to the shape of its geographical position. We can find similar references to the shape of the human body in other cities with similar geo-morphological features, like Genova and Geneva (which names originate from th ...

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Ancona: Encyclopedia II - Ancona - Ancona sights

Ancona - Cathedral church of S. Ciriaco. The cathedral was consecrated in 1128 and completed in 1189. Some writers suppose that the original church was in the form of a Latin cross and belonged to the 8th century. An early restoration was completed in 1234. It is a fine Romanesque building in grey stone, built in the form of a Greek cross, with a dodecagonal dome over the center slightly altered by Margaritone d'Arezzo in 1270. The façade has a Gothic portal, ascribed to Giorgio da Como (1228), which was inten ...

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Ancona: Encyclopedia - Air Dolomiti

Air Dolomiti is a regional airline based in Verona in Italy. The airline's name derives from a section of the Alps known as The Dolomites. It is part of Lufthansa Regional connecting medium-size Italian airports to other European cities through Lufthansa's Munich, Frankfurt and Vienna hubs. The airline employs some 550 people and although most Lufthansa regional subsidiaries operate under their parent's name and colours, Air Dolomiti retains its own identity. Air Dolomiti - Code Data. IATA Code: EN ...

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Ancona: Encyclopedia - Via Egnatia

Via Egnatia (Greek: Εγνατία Οδός) was a road constructed by the Romans around 146 BC. It was named after Gnaeus Egnatius, proconsul of Macedonia, who ordered its construction. The road stretched across Illyria, Macedonia, and Thrace, running across modern Albania, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Greece, and Turkey. It was constructed in order to link up different Roman colonies from the Adriatic Sea to Byzantium. The Via Egnatia was repaired and expanded several times. It remained an important commercial a ...

Ancona: Encyclopedia - Leto

Asclepius, god of medicine Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis Pan, shepherd god Nymphs Anatolian deities In Greek mythology Lētō' (Greek: Λητώ, Lato in Dorian Greek, the "hidden one") is a daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe, and in the Olympian scheme of things, Zeus is the father of her twins, Apollo and Artemis. Still, Leto is scarcely to be conceived apart from being pregnant and finding a suitab ...

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Leto - Witnesses at the birth of Apollo

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Ancona: Encyclopedia - Constance of Sicily

Constance of Sicily (1154 – November 27, 1198) was in her own right Queen of Sicily, became German Empress as the wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, and was the mother of the Emperor and King of Sicily Frederick II. She was the posthumous daughter of Roger II of Sicily by his third wife Beatrice of Rethel. Constance was not betrothed until she was 30, which is unusual for a princess whose marriage was an important bargaining chip. This later gave rise to stories that she had become a nun and required papal dispensation to forsake her vows and marry, or that she was impossib ...

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Ancona: Encyclopedia - Apennine Mountains

The Apennine Mountains (Greek: Απεννινος; Latin: Appenninus--in both cases used in the singular; Italian: Appennini) is a mountain range stretching 1000 km from the north to the south of Italy along its east coast, traversing the entire peninsula, and forming, as it were, the backbone of the country. The name is probably derived from the Celtic pen, a mountain top: it originally belonged to the northern portion of the chain, from the Maritime Alps to Ancona; and Polybius is probably the first write ...

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Apennine Mountains - Southern Apennines

Apennine Mountains - Character

Apennine Mountains - Geology

Apennine Mountains - Mountains in the Appennine Range

Apennine Mountains - Historical Significance

Ancona: Encyclopedia - Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea (Italian Mare Adriatico, German Adriatisches Meer or Adria, Croatian Jadransko more or Jadran) is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea separating the Apennine peninsula (Italy) from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges. The western coast is Italian, while the eastern coast runs along the countries of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, and Albania. Domenico and Blaz are the onl ...

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Ancona: Encyclopedia - Bernardino of Siena

Saint Bernardino of Siena (sometimes Bernardine) (September 8, 1380 – May 20, 1444) was an Italian preacher, Franciscan missionary and Christian saint famous for the liveliness and effectiveness of his sermons, which stretched out for hours. Bernardino of Siena - Early life. He was born in 1380 in Massa, Italy to the noble Albizeschi family. He was orphaned at an early age and raised by a pious aunt. On the completion of his education he spent some years in the service of the sick in the hospitals. ...

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Ancona: Encyclopedia - Via Flaminia

The Via Flaminia was a Roman road leading from Rome to Ariminum (Rimini), and was the most important route to the north. Via Flaminia - History. It was constructed by Gaius Flaminius during his censorship (220 BC). We hear of frequent improvements being made to it during the imperial period. Augustus, when he instituted a general restoration of the roads of Italy, which he assigned for the purpose among various senators, reserved the Flaminia for himself, and rebuilt all the bridges except the Pons M ...

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Ancona: Encyclopedia - Pope Clement XII

Clement XII, born as Lorenzo Corsini (Florence, April 7, 1652 – Rome, February 6, 1740), (pope 1730-1740), had been an aristocratic lawyer and financial manager under preceding pontiffs. He is known for building the new façade of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano and beginning the Trevi Fountain and the purchase of Cardinal Albani's collection of antiquities for the papal gallery. Under Benedict XIII, the finances of the Papal States had been delivered into the hands of Cardinal Coscia and other members of the ...

Ancona: Encyclopedia - Roger Bacon

Roger Bacon (c. 1214 – 1294), also known as Doctor Mirabilis (Latin: "astounding teacher"), was one of the most famous Franciscan friars of his time. He was an English philosopher who placed considerable emphasis on empiricism, and has been presented as one of the earliest advocates of the modern scientific method; though later studies have emphasized his reliance on occult and alchemical traditions. He was intimately acquainted with the philosophical and scientific insights of the Arab world, one of the most advanced civiliz ...

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Ancona: Encyclopedia - Carlo Crivelli

Carlo Crivelli (1435 in Venice, Italy – 1495 in Naples, Italy) was a Venetian Renaissance or Quattrocento painter. The only dates that can with certainty be given are 1468 and 1493; these are respectively the earliest and the latest years signed on his pictures--the former on an altar-piece in the church of San Silvestro at Massa near Fermo, and the latter on a picture in the Oggioni collection in Milan. Though born in Venice, Crivelli seems to have worked chiefly in Ancona, and especially in and near Ascoli; there are ...

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Ancona: Encyclopedia II - Italian unification - Creation of the Italian State

Italian unification - The War of 1859 and its aftermath. Although Charles Albert had been crushingly defeated in his bid to drive the Austrians from Italy, the Piedmontese did not abandon all hope of aggrandizement. Camillo di Cavour, who became prime minister in 1852, also had expansionist ambitions. But he saw that Piedmont would not be able to "do it herself." Instead, he ho ...

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