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unusual facts about Italian Alps



Pope Benedict XVI and Islam

"I think it is best to leave that to the diplomats, because we don't enter politics. But we do everything for peace. Our goal is simply peace, and we will do everything to help attain peace," Benedict told reporters as he returned from an hour-long hike in the Italian Alps.


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Cryptocephalus virens

These beetles can be found in Southern and Central Europe from Italian Alps and Bavaria to Southern Poland, Russia, Turkey, East Palearctic ecozone and the Near East.

Edelmiro Julián Farrell

He served in an Italian alpine regiment in Fascist Italy between 1924 and 1926.

Preondactylus

It contains a single known species, Preondactylus buffarinii, which was discovered by Nando Buffarini in 1982 near Udine in the Preone valley of the Italian Alps.

Repatriation of Cossacks after World War II

In 1944, General Krasnov and other Cossack leaders had persuaded Hitler to allow Cossack troops, as well as civilians and non-combatant Cossacks to permanently settle in the sparsely settled Carnia, in the Italian Alps.

Wu Fei

In October 2009, a music DVD "Shan Qi" was released (Ozella Music, Germany), filmed in the Italian Alps and highlighting Wu Fei and several outstanding European musicians, including Guo Yue, Giovanni Amighetti (also producer), Guido Ponzini, and Helge A. Norbakken.