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• Liptauer
  ...iptó (county)|Liptó county]]), before 1918, part of the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]]. In Austria, it is a typical snack served at the [[Heuriger]] (Austrian wine-drinking Tavern.
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• Carlo Abarth
  ...]''' ([[November 15]], [[1908]] - [[October 24]], [[1979]]) was an Italian-Austrian automobile designer. Abarth was born in [[Vienna]], [[Austrian Empire]]. As a teenager, he worked for Castagna in [[Italy]] (1925-27), designing
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• Trentino-South Tyrol
  ...egion was part of [[Austria-Hungary]] (and its predecessor, the [[Austrian Empire]]) from 1803 until its annexation by [[Italy]] in 1919. It was officially r ...e Romans in [[15 BC]]. After the end of the [[Western Roman Empire|Western Empire]], it was divided between the [[Lombards]] ([[Salorno]]), [[Alamanni]] ([[V
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• Trentino-Alto Adige
  ...newly created Italian Kingdom, as their alleagence lays with the Habsburg Empire; also they cite a meeting between [[Alcide De Gasperi]], a Trento represent ...trol of the South Tyrol was a key strategic objective. The collapse of the Austrian war effort enabled Italian troops to occupy the region in [[1918]] and its
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• Northern Italy
  ...a whole entity until the born of Italy ) became a strategic region of the Empire when the german incursions started in the late 2 AD. ...to the power of the emperor to gain more autonomy but they didnt leave the Empire, that was useful to limit the ambitions of the Popes in Lombardy.
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• Derek Bell (auto racer)
  Bell was awarded the [[Member of the Order of the British Empire|MBE]] in 1986 for services to motorsport. | [[1970 Austrian Grand Prix|AUT]]<br /><small></small>
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• Lombardia
  ...e famous edict that gave freedom of confession to all religions within the Empire. During and after the fall of the Western Empire, Lombardy suffered heavily from destruction brought about by a series of ba
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• Trieste
  After the end of the Western [[Roman Empire]] (in [[476]]) Trieste was first under the authority of their [[Bishop|coun ...9]] till [[July 1]] [[1891]]. Its role as the principal [[Austria-Hungary|Austrian]] commercial port and shipbuilding center was emphasized by the constructio
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• Modena, Italy
  ...e most important city in the newly formed [[Aemilia]], but the fall of the Empire brought Mutina down with it, as it was used as a military base both against ...ed from Modena in the European [[Revolution of 1848]], but was restored by Austrian troops. Ten years later, on August 20, 1859, the representatives of Modena
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• Umberto Bossi
  ...ultured maverick. His politics has been compared by critics to that of the Austrian nationalist leader, [[Jörg Haider]], whose extreme right-wing opinions and After a subsidiary of the Berlusconi empire granted a loan to relieve the waning finances of Lega Nord, Bossi agreed to
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• Piedmont
  ...859]]-[[1861]], following earlier unsuccessful wars against the [[Austrian Empire]] in [[1820]]-[[1821]] and [[1848]]-[[1849]]. The House of Savoy became [[
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• Trento
  Originally a [[Celt]]ic city, Trento was later conquered by the [[Roman Empire|Romans]] in the first Century BC. The Romans gave Trento the name ''Trident ...]], [[Lombards]] and [[Franks]], finally becoming part of the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. In 1027, Emperor [[Conrad II]] created the [[Prince-Bishop]] of Trento,
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• Padua
  ...eized again by the Goths under [[Totila]], but was restored to the Eastern Empire by [[Narses]] in [[568]]. ===Under Austrian rule===
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• Friuli-Venezia Giulia
  ...erritory, and the unifying element of the two parts is the [[Italia (Roman Empire)|X Regio Venetia et Histria]], with its capital at [[Aquileia]] in the [[Em ...uries encouraged an extraordinary economic flourishing, making Trieste the empire’s port. The fortunate outcome of the war of independence brought Friuli a
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• John Surtees
  '''John Surtees''', [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (born 11 February 1934 in [[Tatsfield]], [[Surrey]]) is a former [[Gr ...ish Empire]] (MBE), he was appointed [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.
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• Mike Hailwood
  '''Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]]''' ([[April 2]] [[1940]] &ndash; [[March 23]] [[1981]]) was a [[Unite | [[1964 Austrian Grand Prix|AUT]]
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• Milan
  ...[[Theodosius I]], the city was briefly the capital of the [[Western Roman Empire]]. At that time Milan was the second largest city in Europe, with more tha ...ed other Italian cities in gaining semi-independence from the [[Holy Roman Empire]] (wars of the [[Lombard League]] against the emperor [[Frederick Barbaross
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• Genoa
  ...it in 643. In 773 the Lombard Kingdom was annexed by the [[Franks|Frank]] empire; the first Carolingian count of Genoa was Ademarus, who was given the title ...of [[Italian city-states]] during this period. Nominally, the [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman Emperor]] was overlord and the [[Bishop of Genoa]] was president
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• History of Sardinia
  ...of the Vandal collapse; thenceforth the island was part of the [[Byzantine Empire]], included in the African [[prefect]]ure. The local governor sat in Carali The [[treaty of Utrecht]] (1713) assigned Sardinia to the Austrian [[House of Habsburg|Habsburg]]s and Sicily to the [[Piedmont]]ese [[House o
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• Cagliari
  Subsequently ruled in turn by the [[Vandals]] and the [[Byzantine Empire]], became the eponymous capital of an independent kingdom or ''giudicato'', ...ce-kingdom]] of Sardinia, which later came under the rule of the [[Spanish empire]]. Many agree that the Spanish domination was a period of decadence for Cag
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