The city of Milan, Italy, has had three different systems of defending walls. The oldest, the Roman walls, were developed in two stages: the first in the...
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Milan (/mɪˈlæn/ mil-AN, US also /mɪˈlɑːn/ mil-AHN, Milanese: [miˈlãː] ; Italian: Milano [miˈlaːno] ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of...
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Commune 1114–1259 Lordship of Milan 1259–1395 Duchy of Milan 1395–1447 Golden Ambrosian Republic 1447–1450 Duchy of Milan 1450–1796 Transpadane Republic...
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Porta Sempione (redirect from Arco della Pace, Milan)
back to a gate of the Roman walls of Milan. A gate that roughly corresponds to modern Porta Sempione was already part of Roman walls of Milan. It was called...
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Associazione Calcio Milan (Italian pronunciation: [assotʃatˈtsjoːne ˈkaltʃo ˈmiːlan]), commonly referred to as AC Milan (Italian pronunciation: [a tˌtʃi...
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Gate") is a former city gate of Milan, Italy. In its present form, the gate dates back to the 16th century Spanish walls of Milan. Its origins can be traced...
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A slurry wall is a civil engineering technique used to build reinforced concrete walls in areas of soft earth close to open water, or with a high groundwater...
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Porta Vittoria (redirect from Porta Vittoria (Milan))
Vittoria (formerly Porta Tosa) was a city gate in the Spanish walls of Milan, Italy. While the walls and the gate have been demolished, the name "Porta Vittoria"...
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Climate of Milan Zones of Milan Zone 1 of Milan Zone 2 of Milan Zone 3 of Milan Zone 4 of Milan Zone 5 of Milan Zone 6 of Milan Zone 7 of Milan Zone 8 of Milan...
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Mediolanum (category History of Milan)
Mediolanum Corporate University, Milan. Milan#History, for the medieval and modern history of Milan Walls of Milan Diocletian Tellier, Luc-Normand (2009)...
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com/uk/fashion/news/a311/wall-of-dolls-exhibition-milan-violence-against-women/ Article in British Elle magazine: Fashion: The Wall Of Dolls Exhibition: Fashion...
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Milan Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Milano [ˈdwɔːmo di miˈlaːno]; Lombard: Domm de Milan [ˈdɔm de miˈlãː]), or Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Nativity...
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Roman city walls of Milan, but over the following centuries, the city grew up around it. It became a centre of religious life and a community of canons developed...
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Nazarius and Celsus (category Groups of Christian martyrs of the Roman era)
three years of his life, after the death of the Emperor Theodosius (d. 395), discovered in a garden outside the walls of Milan the body of Nazarius, with...
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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (redirect from Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan)
within the original city walls of Milan, features a facade by Giovanni Muzio, the Chapel of the Sacred Heart, the atrium of the zodiac, and the Great...
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Medieval Porta Ticinese (redirect from Porta Ticinese (Medieval Gate of Milan))
(Porta Ticinese Medievale) is a gate of the former 12th-century Walls of Milan; it is located at the intersection of the Corso di Porta Ticinese and Via...
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river Ticino Porta Ticinese Quartiere of Milan taking the name from the Gate of the medieval walls of Milan This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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Vittoria (formerly Porta Tosa), the eastern gate in the Medieval Spanish Walls of Milan, whose capture by the rebellion prompted the Austrians to abandon the...
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Pusterla di Sant'Ambrogio (redirect from Pusterla di Sant'Ambrogio (Milan))
Pusterla di Sant’Ambrogio (Postern of Saint Ambrose in English) is a minor or secondary gate in the Medieval walls of Milan; the rebuilt Romanesque-style tower...
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Sforza Castle (redirect from Castello Sforzesco (Milan))
quadrangular plan, on a site across the city's walls. The wall which once faced the countryside north of Milan has square towers and an ogival gate. This...
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Middle Latin crismon), specifically applied to the "Chrismon of Saint Ambrose" in Milan Cathedral. Crismon (par les Bénédictins de St. Maur, 1733–1736)...
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The Zone 6 of Milan, since 2016 officially Municipality 6 of Milan, (in Italian: Zona 6 di Milano, Municipio 6 di Milano) is one of the 9 administrative...
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Archi di Porta Nuova (redirect from Porta Nuova (Gate of Milan))
marble shrine of the Madonna and Child with Saints. Walls of Milan The original appearance of the gate. An ancient Roman stele on the facade of Porta Nuova...
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Barbarossa (film) (redirect from Sword of War)
walls of Milan. On the front of the towers they have tied the Millanese volunteers that went out in the fields to get fresh food for the residents of...
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inside the walls of Milan. Charles Albert went to the Palazzo Greppi [it], ignoring the Milanese desire to resist, he negotiated the surrender of the city...
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reference to the Walls of Milan; later on the area was renamed Corpi Santi ("Holy Bodies"), as the Milanese would bury their dead past the city walls, in the surrounding...
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Corpi Santi di Milano (category History of Milan)
Bodies of Milan") is a former Italian comune, established in 1782 and annexed to Milan in 1873. It comprised the rural territory around the city walls of Milan...
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Mary of Grace") is a church and Dominican convent in Milan, northern Italy, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The convent contains the mural of The Last...
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Manuel I Komnenos (redirect from Italian expedition of Manuel I Komnenos)
occasionally, troops. The walls of Milan, demolished by the Germans, were restored with Manuel's aid. Ancona remained important as a centre of Byzantine influence...
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its beginnings in his diocese, providing for the needs of a monastery outside the walls of Milan, as Saint Augustine recounts in his Confessions. Ambrose...
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