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    Butera (Sicilian: Vutera) is an Italian town and a commune in the province of Caltanissetta, in the southern part of the island of Sicily. It is bounded...
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  • wife and his son fled to the city of Noto, which also fell together with Butera, in 1091. One of his descendants, Muhammad ibn ‘Abbād, rebelled to Frederick...
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  • city of Lentini from the Byzantines. Following the defeat at the Battle of Butera, the Byzantines suffered heavy casualties. In 846 or 847, Al-Fadl ibn-Gafar...
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    The Lombards of Sicily (Italian: Lombardi di Sicilia) are an ethnolinguistic minority living in Sicily, southern Italy, speaking an isolated variety of...
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    February 1622) was an aristocrat, Marquis of Militello and 4th prince of Butera, as well as a notable patron of the arts and sciences in Sicily. He was...
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  • Fazara tribe. Before taking power he was the protagonist of the battle of Butera in 845. During his emirate, characterized by intense military activity,...
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  • expansion continued in eastern Sicily. Cities such as Messina (842-843), Butera in 845, Ragusa, Moorish (848) were conquered. various editors. The Cambridge...
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    Lanza family. In the 18th-century, it was inherited by the Branciforte di Butera family, who ceded the palace in 1801 to the Senate of Palermo. The Senate...
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    Sicily and other parts of southern Italy. Carlo Maria Carafa, prince of Butera, is considered the most illustrious "gnomonist," that is, an expert in the...
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    (1841-48).  He married Stefania Branciforte and Branciforte of the Princes of Butera and Scordia, the last descendant of his lineage, and through this union...
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  • of Spain granted him the first title of a prince in Sicily as prince of Butera. He had loyally served the royal interests in Sicily as maestro giustiziere...
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  • non-Latin linguistic groups: Arabic speakers, mostly in Palermo, Agrigento, Butera, Enna and Noto Greek speakers, mostly in Messina, Taormina, Cefalù, Catania...
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  • Saluzzo, of Busca, of Lancia, of Ceva, and of Savona. He received Paternò and Butera in Sicily from either Roger I of Sicily or Adelaide during her regency after...
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    Gela (redirect from Terranova di Sicilia)
    the south-western side of Sicily. The bounding municipalities are Acate, Butera, Caltagirone, Mazzarino and Niscemi. Its frazione (municipal parish) is...
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    in the vicinity of Bompensiere, in the locality of Scimè Muculufa, near Butera, declared in 1988 a site of public interest Benuntende (Caltanissetta Area)...
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    Gallo-Italic of Sicily, (Italian: Gallo-italico di Sicilia) also known as the Siculo-Lombard dialects, (Italian: Dialetti siculo-lombardi) is a group...
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    845, Modica also fell, and the Byzantines suffered a crushing defeat near Butera, losing about 10,000 men. Lentini was conquered in 846, and Ragusa followed...
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    Syracuse surrendered after this defeat. His wife and son fled to Noto and Butera. Meanwhile, the city of Qas'r Ianni (Castrogiovanni, modern Enna) was ruled...
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  • Falconara Butera Caltanissetta Bronze Falcone Falcone Messina Bronze Ficarazzi Ficarazzi Palermo Bronze Fiumefreddo di Sicilia Fiumefreddo di Sicilia Catania...
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    reinforcements from the eastern theme of Charsianon. The two armies met near Butera, where the Byzantines suffered a crushing defeat, losing about 10,000 men...
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  • Bussi sul Tirino Busso Bussolengo Bussoleno Busto Arsizio Busto Garolfo Butera Buti Buttapietra Buttigliera Alta Buttigliera d'Asti Buttrio Ca' d'Andrea...
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    novelist, philosopher, playwright and journalist. Born into a poor family in Butera, Sicily, Pasqualino left the school at 10 years old to work as a laborer...
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  • following notable historical places in Bagheria: Villa Palagonia, Palazzo Butera [it], Villa Cattolica [it], Palazzo Cutò [it], Museo del giocattolo Pietro...
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  • Mario Moscoso as George Mc Gruster Héctor Díaz as Horacio Raymundi Vanesa Butera as Carmen Juárez Giselle Bonaffino as Lola Benítez Sebastián Mogordoy as...
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    Chiara Paternò Castello (born 1995). Robert of Embrun │ └─── Counts of Butera, Counts of Martana, Barons of Floresta, Barons of Burgio and Imbaccari (XI-XIII...
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    Burgio Agrigento 2,780 Buscemi Siracusa 1,128 Buseto Palizzolo Trapani 3,031 Butera Caltanissetta 4,937 Caccamo Palermo 8,295 Calamonaci Agrigento 1,375 Calascibetta...
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  • (1922–1994) Nick Burdi (born 1993) Zack Burdi (born 1995) Drew Butera (born 1983) Sal Butera (born 1952) Sam Calderone (1926–2006) Fred Caligiuri (1918–2018)...
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    was the heaviest response to the Allied advance." An infantry column from Butera approached Gela from the west while a second infantry column preceded by...
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    called the Foro Italico was built under Mussolini in Rome. G. Venturini, Sicilia, Touring Club Italiano, Milano 2002, p. 59. 38°07′05″N 13°22′26″E / 38...
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    topografico della Sicilia, Volume 2, translated from Latin by Gioacchino Di Marzo, Ed. Salvatore di Marzo, 1859 Santi Correnti, La Sicilia del Seicento, società...
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