Val Demone or Val di Demona is a historical and geographical region encompassing the north-eastern third of Sicily. Historically, it was one of the three...

southern peninsula. The island was divided into three regions: Val di Mazara, Val Demone and Val di Noto. After a brief rule by Charles of Anjou, a revolt...

given the title of Grand Count of Sicily, while Robert kept Messina and Val Demone for himself. The two brothers besieged Palermo on opposite sides, and...

different administrative regions: the Val di Noto in the southeast, the Val Demone in the northeast and the Val di Mazara in the west. Each zone has a...

of the island (Val di Noto) suffered comparatively more than the more mountainous and inaccessible north-eastern portion (Val Demone). No operations...

full and direct administration; by contrast, the northeast region of Val Demone remained majority Christian and often resistant to Muslim rule, prompting...

Norman army under the command of Robert Guiscard. The population the Val Demone region of Sicily, of which Messina forms the northeast corner, was largely...

(the "heel" of Italy), up to one-third of Sicily (concentrated in the Val Demone), and much of Calabria and Lucania were still largely Greek-speaking....

Sicily, concentrated especially in the north-east of the island, the Val Demone. Oldfield, Paul (2014). Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy...

reduce the remaining Byzantine outposts: Taormina, the forts in the Val Demone and Val di Noto, and Rometta. Taormina fell to the governor Ahmad ibn al-Hasan...

Sicily was divided into three different administrative regions, Val di Noto, Val Demone and Val di Mazara, making the city an important commercial harbour...

jurisdiction in the island save for half the city of Palermo, Messina, and the Val Demone, which he retained for himself. Roger was to hold the county which comprised...

regions, or "vals", roughly corresponding to the three "points" of Sicily: Val di Mazara in the west; Val Demone in the northeast; and Val di Noto in the...

Sicily, concentrated especially in the north-east of the island, the Val Demone. Horrocks, Geoffrey (2010). Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakers...

Sicily, concentrated especially in the north-east of the island, the Val Demone. Coroneo, Roberto; Kauffmann, Martin (2003). "Cefalù". Grove Art Online...

acquisition of the land of Trabia, in the Val di Mazara (1498), and of the barony of Castania, in the Val Demone (1507), both possessions received in dowry...

Norman count Roger I of Sicily. At this time Taormina and the surrounding Val Demone were still predominately Greek speaking. After the fall of the Normans...

Sicily, concentrated especially in the north-east of the island, the Val Demone. Kleinhenz, Christopher (2004). Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia, Volume...

brother Robert retained Palermo, half of Messina, and the largely Christian Val Demone (leaving the rest, including what was not yet conquered, to Roger). In...

strongholds remained in the mountainous northeast of the island (the Val Demone), as well as a Byzantine province across the Strait of Messina in Calabria...

Sicily, Roger I, after storming Castronovo, turned to the conquest of the Val Demone region. The Normans laid siege to Taormina by constructing 22 wooden forts...

Italy and the last Byzantine strongholds in northeastern Sicily (the Val Demone). During the Sicilian revolt, the rebel emir Ibn Qurhub had agreed a truce...

Sicily, concentrated especially in the north-east of the island, the Val Demone. Aube, p.162 Quoted in Aubé, p.168 Quoted in Lewis, p. 148, also Aube...

island (the "Val Demone"). In the aftermath of their capture of Syracuse, the Aghlabids launched repeated raids against the Val Demone in the 880s, but...

naval Battle of Cape Orlando took place on 4 July 1299 at St Marco di Val Demone, north-western Sicily, when an Aragonese and Angevin galley fleet commanded...

the Val di Noto to rise in favor of independence, while two other guerrilla commanders were tasked with getting the Val di Mazara and Val Demone to rise...

reduce the remaining Byzantine outposts: Taormina, the forts in the Val Demone and Val di Noto, and Rometta. Taormina fell to Hasan's son Ahmad on Christmas...

naval Battle of Cape Orlando took place on 4 July 1299 at St Marco di Val Demone, north-western Sicily, when an Aragonese and Angevin galley fleet commanded...

three infantry regiments, to which he gave the names of Val di Mazzara, Val di Noto and Val Demone, three of cavalry and one of artillery, increasing their...

Battalion of the Carolina (850), Prince (600), Val di Mazzara (600), Apulia Chasseurs (110), Val Demone (100), and Val Dinotto (100). There were also 400 volunteers...