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Acireale Acireale
Acireale, Sicily/Italy Aquilia, Reale The first syllable of the name is derived from the ancient River Acis which, according to legend, was formed from the blood of the mythological Acis, a shepherd, when he was crushed to death. Called Aquilia by the Romans, it was renamed Reale... Read more
Hamilcar Barca Hamilcar Barca
Hamilcar Barca d. 229 or 228 BC, Carthaginian general. He was assigned the command in Sicily in 247 in the First Punic War (see Punic Wars ). From mountain bases near Palermo he made repeated raids on the Romans and relieved the Punic garrison in Lilybaeum. However, the Carthaginians were... Read more
Giulio Alberoni Giulio Alberoni
Giulio Alberoni , 1664-1752, Italian statesman in Spanish service, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Appointed (1713) representative of the duke of Parma at the court of Philip V of Spain, Alberoni gained influence and ultimately became de facto prime minister. With the princesse des Ursins ... Read more
Battle of Cape Passaro Battle of Cape Passaro
Cape Passaro, battle of, 1718. Cape Passaro is the extreme southerly cape of Sicily. On 31 July 1718 a British fleet under Sir George Byng defeated a Spanish fleet of twice its numerical strength, destroying or capturing 17 Spanish warships. The Spanish fleet was newly built and hardly fit for... Read more
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Lepidus Lepidus
Lepidus , family of the ancient Roman patrician gens Aemilia. Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, d. 152 BC, was a consul in 187 and 175 BC, a censor in 179 BC, and pontifex maximus [high priest] from 180 BC He served with distinction in the war with Antiochus III of Syria. Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, d. 77... Read more
Spartacus Spartacus
Spartacus , d. 71 BC, leader in an ancient Italian slave revolt, b. Thrace. He broke out (73 BC) of a gladiators' school at Capua and fled to Mt. Vesuvius, where many fugitives joined him. Their army defeated several Roman forces and moved north, devastating S Italy and Campania; Spartacus' aim was... Read more
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Zapatero, José Luis Rodríguez August 4, 1960 • Valladolid, Spain Prime minister Just three days after a series of bomb blasts killed nearly two hundred in Madrid in March of 2004, Spanish voters went to the polls and elected the socialist party of José Luis... Read more
Guadalajara (Spain) Guadalajara (Spain)
Guadalajara town (1990 pop. 63,572), capital of Guadalajara prov., central Spain, in Castile-La Mancha, on the Henares River. Its economy is mainly agricultural. It flourished as a Roman colony and belonged to the Moors from the 8th to the 11th cent. It is the site of a military airfield... Read more
Hannibal Hannibal
Hannibal , b. 247 BC, d. 183 or 182 BC Carthaginian general, an implacable and formidable enemy of Rome. Although knowledge of him is based primarily on the reports of his enemies, Hannibal appears to have been both just and merciful. He is renowned for his tactical genius. Invasion of Italy From... Read more

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