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    Villalba (Sicilian: Villarba) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Caltanissetta in the Italian region Sicily, located about 51 kilometres (32 mi)...
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    Calogero Vizzini (category People from Villalba, Sicily)
    boss of Villalba in the province of Caltanissetta, Sicily. He was considered to be one of the most influential and legendary Mafia bosses of Sicily after...
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  • Villalba, British politician Italy Villalba, Sicily, a comune in the Province of Caltanissetta Puerto Rico Villalba, Puerto Rico, a municipio in the Commonwealth...
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  • violence, in stark contrast to his successors. Born in Villalba, Province of Caltanissetta, Sicily, Bruno emigrated to the United States as a child and...
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    children of Joseph and Yolanda Farina. Farina's father, who was from Villalba, Sicily, was a Chicago-area doctor, and his mother a homemaker. They raised...
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    Michele Pantaleone (category People from Villalba, Sicily)
    organized crime and political power. Pantaleone was born in Villalba, a village in a poor region of Sicily, where most people lived of subsistence agriculture...
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    following is a list of the municipalities (comuni) of Sicily, Italy. There are 390 municipalities in Sicily (as of January 2019): 43 in the Province of Agrigento...
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  • Prosciutto Tuscany Cured meats Valle del Belice sheep Sicily Sheep breed Belìce Vastedda Sicily Cheeses and dairy products Bella-Muro sausage Basilicata...
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    died in 2012). His grandparents immigrated to the United States from Villalba, Sicily. He was raised in North Trenton, New Jersey, in a working-class family...
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    Cammarata (category Cities and towns in Sicily)
    Mussomeli, San Giovanni Gemini, Santo Stefano Quisquina, Vallelunga Pratameno, Villalba. The name derives from the Greek Kàmara, meaning "vaulted room". King Roger...
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    leaders of the Blocco del popolo in Sicily, gave a speech to landless peasants at an election rally in Villalba, the personal fiefdom of Mafia boss Calogero...
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    Vittorina Vivenza (category People from Villalba, Sicily)
    Vittorina Vivenza (6 June 1912 in Villalba – 3 April 2007 in Aosta) was an Italian versatile athlete. Vittorina Vivenza has won six times the national...
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    The Viceroys of Sicily (Italian: Viceré di Sicilia) were the regents of the government of the Kingdom of Sicily in place of the Spanish Kings who acquired...
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    Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa, 2nd Duke of Feria (category Margraves of Villalba)
    (1591–1592), France (1593–1595), Viceroy of Catalonia (1596–1602) and Viceroy of Sicily (1603–1607), where he strengethened the defences of the island against failed...
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    Castellana Sicula (category Cities and towns in Sicily)
    borders the following municipalities: Petralia Sottana, Polizzi Generosa, Villalba. "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011"....
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  • (CIA) – during the invasion of Sicily. Popular myth has it that a US Army airplane had flown over Vizzini’s home town Villalba on the day of the invasion...
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    Petralia Sottana (category Cities and towns in Sicily)
    Petralia Soprana, Polizzi Generosa, Resuttano, Santa Caterina Villarmosa, Villalba. The coat of arms shows three lilies, referring to Lilium Petrae (Stone...
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    Vallelunga Pratameno (category Cities and towns in Sicily)
    Castronovo di Sicilia, Polizzi Generosa, Sclafani Bagni, Valledolmo, Villalba. Hundreds of Vallelungesi settled in the cities of Buffalo and Batavia...
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  • Agrigento, Sicily Calogero "Don Calò" Vizzini (1877–1954), historical Mafia boss of Villalba in the Italian province of Caltanissetta, Sicily Fiorenza Calogero...
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  • List of municipalities of the province of Caltanissetta (category Cities and towns in Sicily)
    list of the 22 municipalities (comuni) of the province of Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy. List of municipalities of Italy "Statistics". ISTAT (in Italian)...
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  • At War with Love (category Films set in Sicily)
    Throughout Sicily, the alliance between American soldiers and mobsters brings lucrative business. The boss Calogero Vizzini is elected mayor of Villalba, while...
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    Britain and Ireland, and was also present in the islands of Sardinia and Sicily and some coastal areas in north-western Africa. The Bell Beaker phenomenon...
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    of Modica (Kingdom of Sicily) 26th Count of San Esteban de Gormaz 13th Count of Santa Cruz de la Sierra 21st Count of Villalba Viscountcies 13th Viscount...
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    original on 12 April 2013. Retrieved 15 November 2019. Lara, Antonio; Villalba, Ricardo (21 May 1993). "A 3620-Year Temperature Record from Fitzroya cupressoides...
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  • Marianopoli (category Cities and towns in Sicily)
    following municipalities: Caltanissetta, Mussomeli, Petralia Sottana, Villalba. Catenanuova, Italy Notes "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane...
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  • connections with Sicily's biggest bosses such as Don Calogero "Calo" Vizzini of Villalba who assisted the Allies' invasion of Sicily and had the greatest...
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  • Italy, and 93 samples from Sicily found significantly higher levels of North African male ancestry in Portugal, Spain and Sicily (7.1%, 7.7% and 7.5% respectively)...
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  • Vizzini the Mafia boss of Villalba in Sicily, dies. Vizzini was considered to be one of the most influential Mafia bosses of Sicily after World War II. Thousands...
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  • This is the list of the railway stations in Sicily owned by: Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), a branch of the Italian state company Ferrovie dello Stato;...
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    Bernardo Mattarella (category Politicians of Sicily)
    invasion of Sicily. He moved to Rome, where he took part in the founding of the DC in May 1943 with Alcide De Gasperi. After the invasion of Sicily by allied...
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