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    Marsala Cathedral (Italian - duomo di San Tommaso di Canterbury) is the largest church in the town of Marsala, Sicily, and the Diocese of Mazara del Vallo...
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    Marsala (Italian: [marˈsaːla], local Sicilian: [maɪsˈsaːla]; Latin: Lilybaeum) is an Italian comune located in the Province of Trapani in the westernmost...
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    Thomas Becket (category Burials at Canterbury Cathedral)
    exile, and King William II of Sicily wed a daughter of Henry II. Marsala Cathedral in western Sicily is dedicated to Becket. Over 45 medieval chasse...
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    level, overlooking the city of Trapani, the low western coast towards Marsala, the dramatic Punta del Saraceno and Capo San Vito to the north-east, and...
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    1093/ref:odnb/11274. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Marsala, Vincent John. Sir John Peter Grant, Governor of Jamaica, 1866-1874: an...
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    captured Sicily in 1860, as part of the Risorgimento. The conquest started at Marsala, and native Sicilians joined him in the capture of the southern Italian...
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    Despite this, some buildings with wooden porticoes remain, like those in via Marsala or in Corte Isolani. The Portico of San Luca is the world's longest. It...
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    Geographical Status. Tiramisù (a dessert made from mascarpone, coffee, Marsala wine, savoiardi and chocolate) originates from Veneto. Each town, often...
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    volunteers were immediately sent to help Garibaldi, who had just landed in Marsala. It became part of the Kingdom of Italy under the guidance of Senator Corrado...
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    Soloeis (Solunto), present day Palermo and Motya (an island near present-day Marsala). Others included Drepana (Trapani) and Mazara del Vallo. As Phoenician...
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    industries. Coral is also an important export, along with salt, marble, and marsala wine. The nearby coast is lined with numerous saltworks formed by the evaporation...
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  • International Piano Competition and the Mario del Monaco Opera Competition (in Marsala). The Friends of Music in Trapani sponsors a very active concert season...
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    Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Quarto al Mare near Genoa and landed in Marsala, Sicily, in order to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, ruled by...
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    922 80,825 −5.93%  Campania 65 Fiumicino 67,626 80,625 +19.22%  Lazio 67 Marsala 80,218 80,071 −0.18%  Sicily 68 Sesto San Giovanni 76,514 79,732 +4.21%...
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    Thousand, briefly making the town his headquarters after his landing at Marsala two days earlier. Located on the slopes of Monte delle Rose Mazzaro between...
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    Rochelongue Hjortspring Austronesia Pontian boat Butuan boats Black Sea‎ Sinop D Marsala Greek: Ashkelon Kyrenia Leontophoros Syracusia Canaanite and Phoenician:...
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  • Montalbano Elicona, Roccella Valdemone, Sinagra, Tortorici, Alcamo, Erice, Marsala, and Trapani. 1535, St. Benedict and Our Lady of Consolation, marble statues...
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    Brazil (2015) Guatemala city, Guatemala (2015) Shenzhen, China (2016) Marsala, Italy (2016) Timișoara, Romania (2018) Isfahan, Iran (2021) Prince Henry...
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    Rochelongue Hjortspring Austronesia Pontian boat Butuan boats Black Sea‎ Sinop D Marsala Greek: Ashkelon Kyrenia Leontophoros Syracusia Canaanite and Phoenician:...
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    of the Bourbon state projected for 1860, before Garibaldi's landing in Marsala, in a state of peace and not of war, once again showed the disproportion...
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    Bossoli, Little patriots (1862) by Gioacchino Toma, Garibaldi lands in Marsala (late 19th century), The departure of the volunteers (1877–1878), The departure...
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    Quarto near Genoa, and, after a stop in Talamone on 11 May, landed near Marsala on the west coast of Sicily. Near Salemi, Garibaldi's army attracted scattered...
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  • Intern at the White House Press Office (season 4). Marina ("Rina") (Melissa Marsala): Assistant to Communications Director Toby Ziegler (season 5). Causes...
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    by Johannes Nepemuk Sepp. His most notable work was excavating at the cathedral in an attempt to find the bones of Frederick Barbarossa. More work was...
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    Napoleon in Gray. Louisiana State University Press. pp. 282, 284. Charles E. Marsala (2018). "24". Monumental Heist: A Story of Race; A Race to the White House...
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    and sweets such as cannoli, granita, and cassata. Typical of Sicily is Marsala, a red, fortified wine similar to Port and largely exported. The cuisine...
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    from the palaestra of Herculaneum Graeco-Punic funerary aedicula from Marsala, with signs of Tanit and caduceus Aediculae and figures painted on stucco...
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    caught by Norsemen in a small skin boat. Their boat was hung in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim along with another, longer boat also taken from "pygmies"...
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  • Doctrine of the Faith, guardian of the friaries of Trapani (1614) and Marsala (1615). He died in Palermo on 27 July 1621. The most important part of...
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    al-Samsam, the island devolved into four qadits, or small fiefdoms: Trapani, Marsala, Mazara and Sciacca led by Abdallah ibn Mankut; that of Girgenti, Castrogiovanni...
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