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5 unusual facts about Gravina


Bradano

After flowing out of the lake, the Bradano is joined by the Gravina and later another tributary before entering the Gulf of Taranto near Metaponto.

Domenico Carafa della Spina di Traetto

He was the son of Palatine Prince and Count Francesco Carafa della Spina, 3rd duke of Traetto, and Paola Orsini, of the princes of Solofra and the dukes of Gravina.

Louis, Count of Gravina

Louis of Durazzo (1324 – 22 July 1362) was Count of Gravina and Morrone.

Raymond Berengar of Andria

He returned to there in 1297 with his brothers Philip and John to receive Yolanda, daughter of Peter III of Aragon, and bride of Robert their brother, and escort her on to Naples.

Tancred, King of Sicily

At Gravina (June 1192) he reinforced his papal support by surrendering the royal legateship over Sicily.


Dorothea Gravina

Her mother-in-law, a predecessor as Countess Gravina, was the daughter of the celebrated conductor Hans von Bülow and his wife Cosima (later the mistress, then the wife of the composer Richard Wagner).

Gravina di Matera

The Gravina di Matera is an Italian river in whose source is between Altamura and Gravina in Puglia in the province of Bari.

HTRK

Their live shows soon caught the attention of underground icon Rowland S. Howard and popular Australian producer Lindsay Gravina, who invited them to record their debut album at Gravina's Birdland Studios.

Pasquale Gravina

Gravina played 284 times for Italian national volleyball team, for which he made his debut in 1990 at Belo Horizonte against Brazil.

Pope Benedict XIII

He was born in Gravina in Puglia to Ferdinando III Orsini, duke of Gravina, and Giovanna Frangipani della Tolfa, from Toritto.

Pope John XIII

Patriarch Polyeuctus of Constantinople quickly addressed an order to the head of the Church of Otranto giving him authority to consecrate bishops in the churches of Acerenza, Tursi, Gravina, Matera, and Tricarico, all previously dependent on the Church of Rome.

Spanish destroyer Almirante Ferrándiz

When a Republican squadron penetrated the Cantabrian Sea to relieve Republican toops isolated in the North, she remained in the strait with Gravina to stop any movement of Nationalist troops between Africa and the Iberian peninsula.

Velasco-class cruiser

The first two ships, Velasco and Gravina, built by the Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. at Leamouth, London in the United Kingdom, had fewer but heavier guns and were slightly faster than the next six, which were built at various yards in Spain.


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