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unusual facts about Apollonia, Illyria



Ad Turres

Ad Turres (Illyria), a town of Illyria; now Tasovčići, near Čapljina, Bosnia and Hercegovina

Andrea del Castagno

His works include frescoes in Sant'Apollonia in Florence and the painted equestrian monument of Niccolò da Tolentino (1456) in the Cathedral in Florence.

Apollonia, Cyrenaica

The ruins of Apollonia are sited by the modern town of Susa, and the Apollonia (Susa) Museum houses many artifacts found on the ancient site.

Camille Alphonse Trézel

After the Polish campaign, as a lieutenant, he was appointed acting aide to General Gardanne, in the embassy of France to Persia (1807–1808); aide to General Armand Charles Guilleminot on his return in 1809; he was secretary of the Committee on Delimitation of Illyria, was promoted to captain (1810), and transferred to the Spanish army.

Diogo Fernandes Pereira

Diogo Fernandes is said to have struck a wide arc east of Madagascar and stumbled upon the island of Réunion, which he promptly named ilha de Santa Apollonia (in honor of the St. Apollonia who's day it was, February 9, 1507).

Dirty Hands

(Illyria was an actual country of classical antiquity, whose territory included modern Albania and surroundings.)

Édouard Biot

In 1825 and 1826, he accompanied his father as an assistant on scientific expeditions to Italy, Illyria and Spain.

Egnatia

Via Egnatia, an ancient Roman road in Illyria, Macedonia and Thrace

Eratosthenes

It became the capitol of Pentapolis (North Africa), a country possessing five cities - Cyrene, Arsinde, Berenice, Ptolemias, and Apollonia, Cyrenaica.

Erhard of Queis

Queis married Duchess Apollonia, a daughter of Victor of Poděbrady, Duke of Münsterberg and Opava, who had been a nun in the Poor Clares monastery at Strzelin.

Fier District

Fier is well known for its ancient city, known as "Apollonia", where Cicero, the famous Roman orator had studied for a small period of time.

Gentiana catesbaei

In fact, the very name of the genus is derived from Gentius, a king of Illyria who recognized the tonic properties of the plant.

Israel Roll

He was the former director of the Apollonia-Arsuf excavations, and one of the directors of the excavations of the Roman Temple at Kedesh.

Jack L. Davis

In 1996, plans to begin an intensive archaeological survey in the hinterland of the Greek colony of Apollonia, co-directed with Muzafer Korkuti, director of the Institute of Archaeology in Tirana, were interrupted by the collapse of pyramid banking schemes and the ensuing chaos.

Janko Ravnik

In 1929, Ravnik filmed a great national ceremony in Ljubljana on the 120th anniversary of the establishment of Illyrian Provinces, during which a monument was erected to Napoleon and Illyria at French Revolution Square.

Japodian burial urns

The Japodian burial urn art was a unique form of art influenced to a degree by the Situla art of northern Illyria and Italy and by Greek art.

Jovians and Herculians

Thus Diocletian, who ruled from Nicomedia, promoted two faithful legions from the Illyricum (Legio V Iovia and VI Herculia), the area he was also descended from, to be the personal protectors of the Roman Emperors.

Kay Adams-Corleone

He leaves the country without saying goodbye to Kay, and takes refuge in Sicily, where he falls in love with and marries a local young woman, Apollonia (Simonetta Stefanelli).

Lake Volvi

The municipalities with shores on the lake are Rentina, Madytos, Apollonia, Egnatia, and Sochos.

Langarus

Langarus rendered Alexander important services during Alexander's expedition against the Illyrians and Taulantians shortly after his accession, when the Autariatae were preparing to attack him on his march.

Marko dos Santos

He came to Albania in 24 January 2003 when he signed for Apollonia coming from Sparta Futebol Clube from Minas Gerais.

Martin Heisenberg

Martin Heisenberg is married to Apollonia, Countess of Eulenburg, a niece of philosopher and physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and the politician Richard von Weizsäcker.

Mary Lamb

Subsequently, Charles and Mary Lamb's story was explored by Dorothy Parker and Ross Evans in their 1949 play The Coast of Illyria.

Monunius I of Dardania

About 280 BC, according to Diodorus and Pausanias, they moved in three directions: toward Macedonia and Illyria, toward Greece, and toward Thrace.

Pentapolis

The most important was Cyrene and its port Apollonia, Ptolemais (the next capital after Cyrene's destruction by an earthquake), Barca (the later Arab provincial capital Barka), Balagrae (by Bayda) and Berenice (modern Benghazi); also known as the Pentapolis inferior ('lower P.').

Philistines

Another theory, proposed by Jacobsohn and supported by others, is that the name derives from the attested Illyrian locality Palaeste, whose inhabitants would have been called Palaestīnī according to normal grammatical practice.

Pistiros

Here are also found coins from Greek city-states, e.g. Thasos, Maroneia, Parion, Thracian Chersonese, Kypsela, Enos, Apollonia, Messembria, Damastion, Sermyle, Kardia.

Res Gestae Divi Augusti

Many copies of the text were made and carved in stone on monuments or temples throughout the Roman Empire, some of which have survived; most notably, almost a full copy, written in the original Latin and a Greek translation was preserved on a temple to Augustus in Ancyra (the Monumentum Ancyranum of Ankara, Turkey); others have been found at Apollonia and Antioch, both in Pisidia.

Roman Libya

In 96 BC Rome peacefully obtained Cyrenaica (left as inheritance by the king Ptolemy Apion) with the so-called sovereign Pentapolis, formed by the cities of Cyrene (near the modern village of Shahat), its port of Apollonia, Arsinoe (Tocra), Berenice (near modern Benghazi) and Barce (Marj), that will be transformed into a Roman province a couple of decades later in 74 BC.

Rubik, Albania

Early Illyrian inhabitants of the area performed rituals which were established by the Roman King Numa Pompilius, yearly on the 25th of April, when farmers would sacrifice a red goat, a red sheep, and offer wine to the goddess.

Saloninus

(We may assume that Valerian's mother, Salonina, would have been most unhappy: the death of her elder son, Valerian II, in Illyria under the tutelage of Ingenuus must have seemed to her to have confirmed her worst fears of this sort of arrangement).

Sant'Apollonia

The building is now used as an art museum that houses the The Last Supper fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea del Castagno.

Santa Apollonia

Réunion island, known as Santa Apollonia when it was ruled by the Portuguese

Saro Urzì

He acted in Don Camillo sequels, John Huston's Beat the Devil, Luigi Comencini's Bread, Love and Jealousy, and international films such as Woman of Straw, and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather as Signor Vitelli, father of Michael Corleone's love Apollonia.

Slovenian Littoral

The Habsburg Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca was established in 1754, it became part of the Austrian Kingdom of Illyria in 1816.

Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart

At the age of 9, she was enrolled in the boarding school of the Benedictine nuns of the Monastery of St. Apollonia in Florence.

The Beautiful Ones

In the film, Prince sings the song directly from the stage to Apollonia, who is sitting with his rival Morris Day.

The Dust Busters

In 2010, they received special invitation from the US Embassy in Sofia to represent American folk music at the Bourgas International Folklore Festival and also be showcased at the Apollonia Festival of the Arts in Sozopol.

Valenzano, Italy

Historically, the area was inhabited in prehistoric and early historic times (up to 4th century BC) by the Peucetii, of Illyrian origins, as testified by funerary findings.

Vesper Holly

She is a young high-society orphan from Philadelphia, the daughter of an eccentric wealthy archaeologist who disappeared while on an expedition to the Balkan state of Illyria.

Via Pontica

Via Pontica was an ancient Roman road in Thrace along the Black Sea, starting from Byzantium and passing through Konstantinople, Deultum (today Debelt), Aquae Calidae (today Burgas), Apollonia, Mesambria, Odessos, Byzone, Kaliakra (today in Bulgaria), Kallatis, Tomis and Istros (today in Romania).

Viduzia

After the down fall of Illyrian kingdoms, Roman Settlers from the nearby town of Travunia (Today's; Trebinje), moved in and established homesteads and farms.


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