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• Northern Italian language
  ...the early decades of the Norman conquest (bearing in mind that it took the Normans 30 years to conquer the whole of the island).
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• Vibo Valentia
  ...lmost completely abandoned after the fall of the Roman Empire. In 1070 the Normans build a castle at the site of the old Acropolis and in 1235 a new city was
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• Lipari
  ...o [[Benevento]], and Lipari was eventually almost totally abandoned. The [[Normans]] conquered the Arabs throughout Sicily between [[1060]] and [[1090]], and ...y populated from this point onward. Rule of the island was passed from the Normans to the [[Hohenstaufen]] Kings, followed by the [[Angevin]]s, and then the [
  7 KB (1,059 words) - 10:39, 2 October 2009
• Apulia
  ...firm Byzantine authority until the 11th century, when the [[Italo-Normans|Normans]] conquered it with relative ease.
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• Campania
  ...wed by the [[Lombards]], who established the [[Duchy of Benevento]]. The [[Normans]] ([[Robert Guiscard]]) conquered and re-unified Campania during the 11th a
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• Calabria
  ...vibrant Greek monasteries providing fortresses of culture. In the 1060s, [[Normans]] under the leadership of [[Robert Guiscard]]'s brother Roger established a
  7 KB (956 words) - 18:30, 11 June 2009
• Campobasso
  After the [[Normans|Norman]] conquest of Southern Italy, Campobasso lost its connotation of a d
  6 KB (914 words) - 17:22, 24 February 2009
• Angouleme
  ...lovis I|Clovis]] from the [[Visigoths]] in [[507]], and plundered by the [[Normans]] in the [[9th century]]. In [[1360]] it was surrendered by the [[Treaty of
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• Potenza
  ...chy of Benevento]]. It later suffered various Saracen ravages before the [[Normans|Norman]] conquest of the whole of Southern Italy. In the [[12th century]] P
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• Southern Italy
  ...ng it the [[List of monarchs of Naples and Sicily|Kingdom of Sicily]]. The Normans retained harmonious control of their territory, and ran the kingdom of Sici ...enturies much of the South followed Eastern rite (Greek) Christianity. The Normans and other northern rulers of the Middle Ages significantly impacted the arc
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• History of Naples
  ...]] donated the [[Aversa#county of Aversa|county of Aversa]] to a band of [[Normans|Norman]] mercenaries led by [[Rainulf Drengot]], whose support he had neede ==Normans, Hohenstaufen and Anjou==
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• Procida
  ...atchtowers]] on the sea, which became the symbol of the island. With the [[Normans|Norman]] conquest of [[Southern Italy]], Procida experienced [[feudal]] dom
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• Favignana
  ...of Rome]] and was used as a base for the Saracen invasion of Sicily. The [[Normans]] subsequently took possession of the island in support of their own invasi
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• Crotone
  ...Cotrone on [[July 13]], [[982]]. Later on Cotrone was conquered by the [[Normans]]. Thereafter it shared the fate of the [[Kingdom of Naples]]—including
  9 KB (1,255 words) - 17:30, 24 February 2009
• Palermo
  In [[1060]] the [[Normans]] launched a [[crusade]] against the Muslim emirate of Sicily, taking Paler
  13 KB (1,948 words) - 13:06, 14 April 2009
• Ischia
  ...and [[847]]; in [[1004]] it was occupied by [[Henry II of Germany]]; the [[Normans|Norman]] [[Roger II of Sicily]] took it in [[1130]]; the island was raided
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• Pisa
  ...the Genoese. In 1063 admiral Giovanni Orlando, coming to the aid of the [[Normans|Norman]] [[Roger I of Sicily|Roger I]], took [[Palermo]] from the Saracen p ...t those of pope [[Anacletus II]], who had been elected pope in 1130 with [[Normans|Norman]] support but was not recognized outside [[Rome]]. Innocent II resol
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• Sicily
  ...and according to [[historian]] [[John Julius Norwich]], Palermo under the Normans became wealthier than the [[England]] of its day. After only a century, how ...nine population samples of Sicily] No data exists on the contribution of Normans, but a number of studies hint that North African and Middle Eastern gene fl
  36 KB (5,047 words) - 14:06, 29 March 2010
• Cuisine of Italy
  ...[[4th century BCE]] and into the Middle Ages which brought [[Arab]] and [[Normans|Norman]] influence to certain regions along with introduction of notable ch ...ecame ''trii'' which is another term used for spaghetti in southern Italy. Normans also introduced casseroling, [[salt cod]] (baccalà) and [[stockfish]] whic
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• History
  ...ern Roman Empire until the advent first of the [[Lombards]], then of the [[Normans]]. Moreover, the Byzantines found in southern Italy people of common cultur
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