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Bologna: Encyclopedia - Bologna

Bologna (from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines. Bologna - History. Bologna was founded by the Etruscans with the name Felsina (ca. 534 BC) in an area previously long inhabitated by the villanovians, a people of farmers and shepherds. The Etruscan city grew around a sanctuary built on a hill, and was surrounded by a necropolis. In the 4th century BC the city was conquered by the ...

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Bologna - History

Bologna - Overview

Bologna - Transport

Bologna - Demographics

Bologna - Cuisine

Bologna - The University

Bologna - Famous residents

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Bologna: Encyclopedia II - Bologna - History

Bologna was founded by the Etruscans with the name Felsina (ca. 534 BC) in an area previously long inhabitated by the villanovians, a people of farmers and shepherds. The Etruscan city grew around a sanctuary built on a hill, and was surrounded by a necropolis. In the 4th century BC the city was conquered by the Gauls Boii, whence the ancient name Bononia of the Roman colony (c. 189 BC) created after the conquest in 191 BC. The settlers included 3,000 Latin families led by the consuls Lucius Valerius Flaccus, Marcus Atilius Ser ...

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1988 - Environmental change

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1988 - Births

1988 - Deaths

1988 - January to March

1988 - April to June

1988 - July to September

1988 - October to December

1988 - Nobel Prizes

1988 - Templeton Prize

1988 - Right Livelihood Award

1988 - Fictional references

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Bologna: Encyclopedia - 1980

1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. It is equivalent to 2733 a.U.c., and to 1359 AH. 1980 - Events. January 1–April 1 - National steel strike in the United Kingdom. January 1 - Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother. January 4 - American president Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. January 5 - Hewlett-Packard ...

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1980 - Templeton Prize

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Bologna: Encyclopedia II - Coventry - History

Coventry is traditionally believed to have been established in the year 1043 with the founding of a Benedictine Abbey by Leofric, Earl of Mercia and his wife Lady Godiva. Current evidence suggests that this abbey was probably in existence by 1022, therefore Leofric and Godiva most likely endowed it around 1043. In time, a market was established at the abbey gates and the settlement expanded. By the 14th century Coventry had become an important centre of the cloth trade, and throughout the middle ages was one of the largest and most important cities ...

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Saint Anthony of Padua - Life

Saint Anthony of Padua - Recognition

Bologna: Encyclopedia - Ancient university

Ancient university is a term used to describe the medieval and renaissance universities of Britain and Ireland that have continued to exist. Because no universities were founded in these countries between the 16th and 19th centuries, an ancient university effectively means one that was founded before the 19th century. The ancient universities in Britain and Ireland are, in order of formation: University of Oxford – founded before 1167 University of Cambridge – founded 1209 University of St And ...

Bologna: Encyclopedia - Alfonso Salmeron

Alfonso Salmeron (September 8, 1515 - February 13, 1585) was a biblical scholar and one of the first Jesuits. Born at Toledo, he studied literature and philosophy at Alcala, and thereafter went to Paris for philosophy and theology. Here, through James Lainez, he met Ignatius of Loyola. Together with Lainez, Peter Faber, and Francis Xavier he enlisted in 1536 as one of the first companions of Loyola. The small company left Paris on November 15, 1536, and reached Venice on January 8, 1537, and during Lent of that year went ...

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Alfonso Salmeron - Works

Bologna: Encyclopedia - Antonio Di Pietro

Antonio Di Pietro (born on 12 October 1950 in Montenero di Bisaccia, Italy) is a Member of the European Parliament, former Italian Senator and was a magistrate in the team of the so-called "Mani Pulite". Antonio Di Pietro - Prosecutor. Born to a poor rural family of Molise, very young he went Germany to work as a waiter in a restaurant, to pay for his studies. He graduated in law and was admitted to serve in the Police as an officer. After a few years, he entered the judicial career as an prosecut ...

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Antonio Di Pietro - Prosecutor

Antonio Di Pietro - Minister

Antonio Di Pietro - Political career

Antonio Di Pietro - Career

Bologna: 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 - Ancona sights

Ancona - Cathedral church of S. Ciriaco

Ancona - Other monuments

Ancona - History

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Bologna: Encyclopedia - Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson (October 18, 1859 – January 4, 1941) was a French philosopher, influential in France, but out of the main currents of his time. Henri Bergson - Four principal works. He was born in Paris in the Rue Lamartine, not far from the Paris Opera. He was descended from a Polish Jewish family (originally Berekson) on his father's side, while his mother was from an English and Irish Jewish background. His family lived in London for a few years after his birth, and he obtained an early fami ...

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Henri Bergson - Four principal works

Henri Bergson - Education and career

Henri Bergson - Relationship with James and pragmatism

Henri Bergson - The lectures on change and Bergson's later life

Henri Bergson - Monty Python reference

Henri Bergson - Bibliography

Bologna: Encyclopedia - Bernardino Telesio

Bernardino Telesio (1509 - 1588) was an Italian philosopher and natural scientist. Telesio was born of noble parentage at Cosenza, a town in Calabria, a region of Southern Italy. He was educated at Milan by his uncle, Antonio, himself a scholar and a poet of eminence, and afterwards at Rome and Padua. His studies included all the wide range of subjects, classics, science and philosophy, which constituted the curriculum of the Renaissance savants. Thus equipped, he began his attack upon the medieval Aristotelianism which then fl ...

Bologna: Encyclopedia - Board of European Students of Technology

Board of European Students of Technology (BEST) is an international, non-governmental, non-political, non-profit, student organisation managed entirely by students. It strives to make technology students more internationally minded by encouraging their mobility and intercultural communication. It currently (as of December 2005) consists of 68 local BEST groups in more than 20 countries around Europe with more than 1800 active members. They have an online ...

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Board of European Students of Technology - History

Board of European Students of Technology - Partner organisations

Board of European Students of Technology - Local BEST groups

Board of European Students of Technology - BEST Courses

Bologna: Encyclopedia - Pope Alexander VI

Alexander VI, (Rodrigo Borgia) (January 1, 1431 – August 18, 1503) pope (1492-1503), is the most memorable of the secular popes of the Renaissance. He was born at Xàtiva, València, Spain, and his father's surname was Lanzol or Llançol; that of his mother's family, Borgia or Borja, was assumed by him on the elevation of his maternal uncle to the papacy as Callixtus III (April 8, 1455). Pope Alexander VI - Education and election. He studied law at Bologna and after his uncle's election he w ...

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Pope Alexander VI - Education and election

Pope Alexander VI - Nepotism and opposition

Pope Alexander VI - French involvement

Pope Alexander VI - The French in retreat

Pope Alexander VI - Confiscations and Savonarola

Pope Alexander VI - Cesare in the North

Pope Alexander VI - Last years

Pope Alexander VI - Death and reputation

Pope Alexander VI - Mistresses and family

Pope Alexander VI - Representations in popular culture

Pope Alexander VI - Books

Pope Alexander VI - Television

Bologna: Encyclopedia - Bernardino Ochino

Bernardino Ochino (1487-1564), was an Italian Reformer, born at Siena in 1487. At an early age he entered the order of Observantine Friars, and rose to be its general, but, craving a stricter rule, transferred himself in 1534 to the newly-founded order of Capuchins. He had already become famous for zeal and eloquence, and was the intimate friend of the Spaniard Juan de Valdes, of Bembo, Vittoria Colonna, Pietro Martire, Carnesecchi, and others destined to incur the suspicion of heresy, either from the moderation of their charac ...

Bologna: Encyclopedia - Avignon Papacy

In the history of the Roman Catholic Church, the Avignon Papacy was the period from 1305 to 1378 during which the Bishop of Rome, the Pope, lived in Avignon (now a part of France) rather than in Rome. Seven popes, all French, resided in Avignon during this period: Pope Clement V: 1305–1314 Pope John XXII: 1316–1334 Pope Benedict XII: 1334–1342 Pope Clement VI: 1342–1352 Pope Innocent VI: 1352–1362 Pope Urban V: 136 ...