The Sicel city the Romans called Assorus (Greek Assoros) is the modern Assoro in the province of Enna, Sicily. Assorus was an inland town, midway between Enna and Agyrium. It long resisted Hellenization, and retained its traditional Sicel character. Other related archivesEnna, Sicel

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Before the French invasions of the Napoleonic Era, the Bourbon dynasty ruled over the same lands, but they were formally divided into the "Kingdom of Naples" and the "Kingdom of Sicily". After the change in the name of the kingdom, Ferdinand became known as King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. Two Sicilies - Flags of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. 1738-1848; 1849-1860 flag 1848-49 flag 1860-61 flag < ...

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Crispi's family came originally from the small agricultural community of Palazzo Adriano, in south-western Sicily. It had been founded in later fifteenth century by Greek Orthodox Arbëreshë fleeing from the Turks. Crispi himself was born in Ribera, Sicily and baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church. He assumed an active role in the Sicilian uprising against the rule of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies at Palermo in 1848. The uprising ended in failure and the government was restored in May 1849. Unlike many, Crispi was not granted amnesty and ...

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The autochthonous peoples of Sicily, long absorbed into the population, were tribes known to Greek writers as the Elymians, the Sicani and the Siculi or Siceli. Of these, the last were clearly the latest to arrive on this land and were related to other tribes of southern Italy, such as the Italoi of Calabria, the Oenotrians, Chones, and Leuterni (or Leutarni), the Opicans, and the Ausones. Sicily was colonized by Phoenicians and Punic settlers from Carthage and by Greeks, starting in the 8th century BC. The most important colon ...

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The autochthonous peoples of Sicily, long absorbed into the population, were tribes known to Greek writers as the Elymians, the Sicani and the Siculi or Sicels. Of these, the last were clearly the latest to arrive on this land and were related to other Indo-European tribes of southern Italy, such as the Italoi of Calabria, the Oenotrians, Chones, and Leuterni (or Leutarni), the Opicans, and the Ausones. It's possible, however, that the Sicani were originally an Iberian tribe. The Elymi, too, may have distant origins outside ...

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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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William III of Sicily (1190 - 1198) was briefly king of Sicily for 10 months in 1194. He was the second son of King Tancred of Sicily and Sibylla of Accera. At the age of four, shortly after the death of first his older brother Roger, Duke of Apulia, and then a few weeks later of his father the king (February 20, 1194), William was crowned king by Pope Celestine III in Palermo. He would be the last of Si ...

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Husky was also the codename of Australian military support to Sierra Leone ending in February 2003. The Allied invasion of Sicily began 10 July 1943. The invasion of the island was codenamed Operation Husky and it launched the Italian Campaign. Allied invasion of Sicily - Participants. Main article: Operation Husky order of battle The invasion of Sicily involved primarily the following nations: The British Commonwealth and United States as the Allied landing force a ...

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William I (d. May 7, 1166) was king of Sicily from 1154 to 1166. He was the fourth son of Roger II and Elvira Alfonso of Castile, and grew up with little expectation of ruling. The deaths of his 3 older brothers between 1138 and 1148 changed matters, though when his father died William was still not well-prepared to take his place. William's title "the Bad" seems little merited and expresses the bias of the historian Falcandus and the baronial class against the king and the official class by whom he was guided. It is obv ...

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Charles of Anjou (1227–1285), also Charles I of Sicily. He was King of Sicily 1262–1282 (and under that title, King of Naples 1282–1285), King of Albania 1272–1285, King of Jerusalem 1277–1285, Prince of Achaea 1278–1285, Count of Provence and Forcalquier 1246–1285, and Count of Anjou and Maine 1247–1285. He was the posthumous son of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile, and hence brother to Louis IX of France and Alphonse of Toulouse. He conquered the Kingdom of Sicily from the Hohenstaufen in 1266 and began to ...

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William II (1153–1189), king of Sicily, was only thirteen years old at the death of his father William I when he was placed under the regency of his mother, Marguerite of Navarre. Until the king came of age in 1171 the government was controlled first by the chancellor Stephen of Perche, cousin of Marguerite (1166–1168), and then by Walter Ophamil, archbishop of Palermo, and Matthew d'Ajello, the vice-chancellor. William's character is very indistinct. Lacking in military enterprise, secluded and pleasure-loving, he s ...

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The Crown of Aragon was the regime of a large portion of what is now Spain, plus numerous Mediterranean possessions, for much of the later Middle Ages. The regime began in 1035, as the Kingdom of Aragon, comprising the area still known as Aragon. In 1137, the marriage of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona and Petronila of Aragon, joined the County of Barcelona and territory of Catalonia with the Kingdom of Aragon under the name of "Crown of Aragon". The Crown of Aragon later included Valencia, the Balearic Islands, Sicily and Sard ...

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Urban II, né Otho of Lagery (or Otto or Odo) (1042 - July 29, 1099), was a pope from 1088 to July 29, 1099. He is most known for starting the First Crusade and setting up the modern day Roman Curia, in the manner of a royal court, to help run the Church. He was born into nobility in France at Lagery (near Châtillon-sur-Marne) and was church-educated. He was archdeacon of Reims when, under the influence of St. Bruno his teacher, he resigned and entered the cloister at Cluny where he rose to be prior. In 1078, Gregory VII summoned ...

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In 1860-1861 the kingdom was conquered by the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the title dropped. Other people of the House of Two Sicilies include: Maria Christina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1806-1878) ...

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In 1520 Charles V united the twenty four hamlets of the surrounding area, which expanded the town of Bronte. Mount Etna, a nearby volcano,has erupted and nearly destroyed the town three times, in 1651,in 1832, and finally in 1843. In 1799, King Ferdinand III, created Bronte as a Duchy, and rewarded Horatio Nelson, (who had large land holdings in the area), with the title of Duke, because of his naval victory against the ...

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The landings took place in extremely strong wind conditions, which made the landings difficult but also ensured the element of surprise. Landings were made on the southern and eastern coasts of the island, with the British forces in the East and the Americans towards the West. Four airborne operations were carried out, landing during the night of the July 9-10 July, as part of the invasion; two were British and two American. The American troops were the 82nd Airborne division, making their first combat parachute jump. The strong winds ...

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Roger married three times. The first marriage took place in 1061, to Judith, daughter of William, count of Évreux (in Normandy) and Hawisa of Échauffour. She died in 1076, leaving daughters: A daughter, married Hugues of Gircea Matilda, married Raymond IV of Toulouse Adelisa, married Henry, Count of Monte San Angelo Emma, briefly engaged to King Philip I of France; married Ra ...

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Charles I of Sicily - Early Life. Charles was born in 1227, shortly after the death of his father, King Louis VIII. In his will, his father had left to him (should he be male), the Counties of Anjou and Maine, with which he was invested in 1247. The affection of his mother Blanche seems largely to have been bestowed upon his brother Louis; and Louis tended to favor his elder brothers Robert of Artois and Alphonse. The self-reliance this engendered in Charles may account for the tremendous drive and ambition he showed in his later life. Ch ...

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Main article: Operation Husky order of battle The invasion of Sicily involved primarily the following nations: The British Commonwealth and United States as the Allied landing force and Italy and Germany as the Axis forces defending the island. The Anglo-American landing force was under control of the Allied 15th Army Group. It consisted of the U.S. 7th Army and British 8th Army, each with two Corps underneath them. The primarily Italian defenders were two Ital ...

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