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unusual facts about Bellona, Campania



2005–06 Serie C2

Division C2/A was mainly composed by Northern Italy and Sardinian teams, whereas division C2/B included North-Central and Central Italy teams, with the exception of two teams from Campania (Benevento and Cavese), and division C2/C was represented by teams hailing from Central-Southern Italy and Sicily.

28 Bellona

It was discovered by R. Luther on March 1, 1854, and named after Bellōna, the Roman goddess of war; the name was chosen to mark the beginning of the Crimean War.

A.S.D.C. Pomigliano

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Calcio Pomigliano is an Italian association football club located in Pomigliano d'Arco, Campania.

Abbuoto

There is also some plantings in Campania around Sessa Aurunca where the grape is often blended with Piedirosso and Primitivo.

Alfanus

Alfano, a village and comune in Salerno, Campania, Italy

Antonio De Martino

In 2004, on the occasion of the centenary of De Martino's death, the town of Palma Campania, the region of Campania and the province of Naples, celebrated his life with a festival and with the unveiling of a marble plaque on the facade of the Palazzo De Martino.

Battle of Cornus

Hannibal Barca and his army were active in Campania, while a second Carthaginian army under Hanno the Elder had become active in Bruttium.

Battle of Mount Gaurus

The battle is described by the Roman historian Livy (59 BC – AD 17) as part of the Book Seven of his history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita where he narrates how the Roman consul Marcus Valerius Corvus won a hard-fought battle against the Samnites at Mount Gaurus, near Cumae, in Campania.

Bellona, Campania

When the Saracens destroyed the ancient Capua in 841, some of their inhabitants moved to the Palmobara hill (the modern Bellon's frazione of Triflisco) founding the town of Sicopoli.

Buffalo mozzarella

In Italy, the cheese is produced in almost all nation using Italian buffalo's milk and type with official name by Government Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP is produced in areas ranging from Rome in Lazio to Paestum near Salerno in Campania, and there are production areas in province of Foggia, Puglia and in Venafro, Molise.

Calore

Calore Lucano, an Italian river of the province of Salerno (Campania)

Casalnuovo

Casalnuovo di Napoli, a municipality of the Province of Naples, Campania

Casalbuono, a municipality of the Province of Salerno, Campania; known as Casalnuovo until 1862

Cilentan dialect

The Cilentan language (in Italian: Cilentano, in Cilentan: Celendano or Cilindanu) is a dialect spoken in the area of Cilento, located in the southern part of the Province of Salerno, Campania, Italy.

Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park

Situated in the Province of Salerno (Campania), it includes great part of the geographical regions of Cilento and Vallo di Diano.

Federation of the Greens

The Greens are stronger in cities and urban areas (Milan, Venice, Rome, Naples, etc.), in mountain regions, such as Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Aosta Valley, and in some Southern regions, such as Basilicata and Campania.

Grumo

Grumo Nevano, a municipality in the Province of Naples, Campania

Irpinian dialect

The Irpinian dialect, or Irpino is the dialect spoken in almost all of the comuni in the Province of Avellino in the Italian region of Campania.

Lustra

Lustra, a commune in the province of Salerno (Campania, Italy).

M294

the fiscal code for Bellizzi, a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy

Macerata Campania

Macerata Campania borders the following municipalities: Casagiove, Casapulla, Curti, Marcianise, Portico di Caserta, Recale, Santa Maria Capua Vetere.

Maria Luisa of Spain

Maria Louisa was born in Portici, in Campania, the site of the summer palace (Reggia di Portici) of her parents, King Charles, King of Naples and Sicily and Maria Amalia of Saxony.

Mercato

Mercato San Severino, a municipality of the Province of Salerno, Campania

Mugnano

Mugnano di Napoli, a municipality of the Province of Naples, Campania.

Nicola Panaro

Nicola Panaro is accused of being the intermediary of the clan in financial transactions with Nicola Cosentino, Undersecretary to the Ministry of Economy of Premier Berlusconi’s fourth Government and head of Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PdL) party in Campania.

Piedimonte

Piedimonte Matese, a municipality in the Province of Caserta, Campania.

Potito

San Potito Ultra - town and comune in the province of Avellino, Campania, Italy

San Potito Sannitico, a comune in the Province of Caserta, Campania, Italy

Pratola

Pratola Serra, a municipality in the Province of Avellino, Campania

Pre-Samnite language

Pre-Samnite was an ancient language spoken in southern Campania, in Italy.

Priscoe

San Prisco, comune (municipality) in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region Campania

Pyrrhic War

Veterans of Agathocles, settled now at Messana, offered their help, but Campania and most of the south gave Pyrrhus no encouragement.

Rennell and Bellona Province

The first known European to sight the islands was Mathew Boyd of Camberwell, London, Commander of the merchant ship, Bellona, in 1793.

Robert Alda

Alda, an American of Italian descent, was born Alphonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo in New York, New York, the son of Frances (née Tumillo) and Antonio D'Abruzzo, a barber born in Sant'Agata de' Goti, Benevento, Campania, Italy.

Roberto Amodio

He continued to play in Campania until he moved to Turris, where he finished his professional career in 2000.

Romulus Augustulus

The sources do agree that Romulus took up residence in the Lucullan Villa, an ancient castle originally built by Lucullus in Campania.

San Mango

San Mango Piemonte, a municipality of the Province of Salerno, Campania

San Mango sul Calore, a municipality of the Province of Avellino, Campania

San Mango Cilento, a hamlet of Sessa Cilento, Province of Salerno, Campania

San Marzano

San Marzano sul Sarno, Italian municipality of the Province of Salerno, Campania

Santarcangelo

Sant'Arcangelo Trimonte, a comune in the Province of Benevento (Campania), Italy

Savignano

Savignano Irpino, a municipality in the Province of Avellino, Campania

Scafati Basket

Scafati Basket, also known for sponsorship reasons as Harem Scafati, is an Italian basketball club from the town of Scafati, Campania.

Stefano Sorrentino

Born in Cava de' Tirreni, Campania, Sorrentino started playing football with S.S. Lazio, finishing his youth training with Juventus F.C. in 1997, and failing to collect any official first-team appearances during his one-season spell.

Trebula

Trebula Balliensis, modern Treglia, in the comune of Pontelatone, Province of Caserta, Campania

U.S. Arzanese

Unione Sportiva Arzanese is an Italian association football club located in Arzano, Campania.

Vinicio Capossela

His style is strongly influenced by US singer and songwriter Tom Waits (Capossela repeatedly recorded his songs with the help of Waits' guitarist, Marc Ribot), though it also draws from the traditions of Italian folk music (especially those of Irpinia, the part of Campania where his family moved from in the 1950s).


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