• 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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    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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    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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    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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    (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 (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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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