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    Ligures (redirect from Ligurians)
    or Ligurians were an ancient people after whom Liguria, a region of present-day north-western Italy, is named. In pre-Roman times, the Ligurians occupied...
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    Celto-Ligurian substrate. The pursuit of this "Ligurian shadow" came ultimately to nothing definitive, but the place names remain and meanwhile Ligurian and...
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    negligible in its area. As Task Force 92, elements of the 92nd attacked on the Ligurian coastal flank toward Massa, 5 October. By 12 October, the slight gains...
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    superior cavalry. The victory was minor, but it encouraged the Gauls and Ligurians to join the Carthaginian cause. Their troops bolstered his army back to...
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    Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known...
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    Monaco United Kingdom Andorra Brazil Suriname Spain Channel Bay of Biscay Ligurian Sea Mediterranean Sea Since 2016, France is divided into 18 administrative...
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    ramparts from the 6th to 3rd centuries B.C., as well as vestiges of Celto-Ligurian temples and public buildings. Traders from the island of Rhodes were visiting...
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  • the Mediterranean, attracting mercenaries and fugitive slaves. Gauls, Ligurians, Numidians, Libyans, Greeks, and especially Iberians. were extensively...
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    000 Italian police. Three of the Italian divisions were allocated to the Ligurian Army under Rodolfo Graziani which guarded the western flank facing France...
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    92nd Division in Task Force 45, the Fifth Army unit responsible for the Ligurian coastal sector, the left flank of Allied troops in Italy. On 13 October...
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  • Gaddafi was ordered by an Italian court to pay €392,000 to a luxurious Ligurian hotel for an unpaid bill dating back to a month-long stay in the summer...
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    descendants of the indigenous Neolithic peoples. According to Strabo, the Ligurians, living in proximity to numerous Celtic mountain tribes, were a different...
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    were protected by reinforced concrete fortifications and 9.8-inch thick armored turrets. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Snake Island was a source...
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  • centered on or around the Mediterranean, Aegean, Ionian, Tyrrhenian and Ligurian seas such as Greece, the Roman Empire and parts of Egypt and Turkey as...
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    Middleton, sailed from the United States via Oran in Algeria. The 2nd Armored Division, under Major General Hugh Joseph Gaffey, also sailing from Oran...
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    (Reinforced) of 9th Infantry Division 1st Battalion of 66th Armored Regiment of 2nd Armored Division 1st Battalion of 540th Engineers Center Attack Group...
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    and modern northern Roussillon. May have been either Iberian or Ligurian or a Ligurian-Iberian tribe. Ilercavones - in the low Iberus (Ebro) river basin...
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    Samothracian Iberian Cantabrian Castro Gallaecian Lusitanian Italic Camunnian Ligurian Umbrian Minoan Nuragic Paleo-Balkan Dacian Illyrian Thracian Roman Cybele...
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    1945–1946 Italian Republic 1946–present The Taurini were an ancient Celto-Ligurian, Alpine people, who occupied the upper valley of the Po River, in the center...
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    convoy escort in the Mediterranean or protecting Allied forces in the Ligurian Sea. In the meantime, the British had turned Léopard over to the Free French...
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    during the summer, additionally to spring. There is a cyclone track via the Ligurian sea, northern Italy and the northern Adriatic Sea. The storm was named...
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    masks, armor and weapons, musical instruments, and clothing for men and women. Per a provision in his will, this collection was sent to the Ligurian Academy...
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    Christmas. Departing Palma two days later, America proceeded through the Ligurian Sea to her next port of call, Genoa, which she reached on 30 December....
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    Lunigiana. The Lunigiana region had long been fought over by competing Tuscan, Ligurian and Milanese forces. Three years before Parentucelli's birth, the town...
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    Retrieved 2 March 2018. "The Historical Combat Effectiveness of Lighter-Weight Armored Forces" (PDF). The Dupuy Institute. 2001. p. 84. Archived (PDF) from the...
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    north Italy in 215 BC with his army, and then augment his numbers with Ligurian and Gallic recruits, he would have been in a position to attack Central...
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    like the Insubres or Lepontians, were related to the Ligurians, and even to the Celto-Ligurians. In fact, ancient literary sources supported by numerous...
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    Operational Group landed in inflatable boats from US Navy PT boats on the Ligurian coast as part of Operation Ginny II, a mission to blow up the entrances...
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    frigate HMSAS Natal sinks U-174 on her maiden voyage. 18 March Battle of the Ligurian Sea – Two British destroyers sink two German destroyer escorts 19 March...
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    participation in the Battle of Suoi Tre. In addition elements of the 2/34th Armor were also awarded the PUC for their participation in that battle. That battle...
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