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6 unusual facts about Italo


Alessandra Silvestri-Levy

Alessandra Silvestri-Levy (born November 1 in São Paulo) is an Italo -Brazilian producer, art curator, and writer.

Freweyni

During the Italo-Abyssinian War, a large group of Ethiopian soldiers, marching to the north to fight the Italians, arrived almost starving at the town of Freweyni.

Italian Canadians

Italo of Montreal is published sporadically and is written in Italian, with some articles in French and English.

Italo-Yemeni Treaty

The Red Sea was of strategic importance to the United Kingdom due to both trade and as a route for its navy to pass through in order to reach India among other places.

Veronica Vasicka

Specializing in obscure electronic gems, she loves old New Wave, Italo and House music.

Zaptié

Zaptìé detachments participated in the Italian conquest of Ethiopia in 1936 and in the East African Campaign of World War II.


Alfredo Acton

Alfredo Acton participated in the occupation of Massawa (1885), the International Squadron against Crete (1897), the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion (1900) and the Italo-Turkish War (1912).

Anthony Himbs

Himbs, son of an Italo-American father and a Canadian mother, was raised in Texas, France, England, Canada, Italy and Spain, and began his career as an assistant director for Léonard Keigel and Lewis Furey.

Atessa

The Sevel Sud Italo-French consortium plant, manufacturing the Fiat Ducato and the PSA's equivalent vans, is located in Atessa's territory.

Avigliano, Basilicata

Later it was expanded by the Normans and was a hunter mansion for Frederick II of Hohenstaufen and a summer residence for the Angevine kings of Naples.

Avola

However, the village near what is now Avola appeared only during the Norman or Hohenstaufen rule (12th-13th centuries).

Battle of Civitate

The Battle of Civitate (also known as Battle of Civitella del Fortore) was fought on 18 June 1053 in Southern Italy, between the Normans, led by the Count of Apulia Humphrey of Hauteville, and a Swabian-Italian-Lombard army, organised by Pope Leo IX and led on the battlefield by Gerard, Duke of Lorraine, and Rudolf, Prince of Benevento.

Bombing of Libya

1911–1912: Giulio Gavotti, first-in-the-world aerial bombardment in a heavier-than-air flyer and first-in-the-world night mission in same; Italo-Turkish War in Libya

Capitán Pastene

Settlers arrived from the north Italian region of Emilia Romagna (Bologna and major cities such as Modena) and left a generation of Italo-Chilean that lasts to this day, which has contributed to enriching the local culture.

Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta

In regard to the Mediterranean he established an Italo-French agreement by which France tacitly undertook to leave Italy a free hand in Tripoli, and Italy not to interfere with French policy in the interior of Morocco; and, in regard to the Adriatic, he came to an understanding with Austria guaranteeing the status quo in Albania.

Emlyn Garner Evans

In January 1936, Evans was Cambridge's delegate to the Conference of University Liberal Societies and proposed a resolution which deplored the League of Nations procedure by which the United Kingdom and French governments drew up the peace settlement in the Italo-Abyssinian War.

Faraualla

Faraualla has performed with various artists of international renown including the Mongolian Sainkho Namtchylak, the Italo-Palistinian Al Darawish, the American Bobby McFerrin, and the Italians Daniele Sepe and Lucilla Galeazzi.

Hauteville-la-Guichard

It is famous as the original stronghold of the Hauteville family who made their fortunes in southern Italy and Sicily as the Norman kings of Sicily, beginning with the modest Norman seigneur Tancred of Hauteville, who is commemorated by a simple exhibit housed in the former presbytère.

I Musici

Violins: Salvatore Accardo, Federico Agostini, Felix Ayo, Arnaldo Apostoli, Pina Carmirelli, Italo Colandrea, Anna Maria Cotogni, Walter Gallozzi, Roberto Michelucci, Mariana Sirbu, Franco Tamponi, Luciano Vicari

Ian Brusasco

He was born Italo Prospero Brusasco in 1928 to parents from the small Italian town of Cuccaro Monferrato (his cousin Pier Giuseppe Brusasco was mayor of the town until 2009).

Il Discotto Records

It released material by many well-known artists like Gary Low, Doctor's Cat, Brand Image, Martinelli, Paul Sharada, Betty Miranda, Reeds, Mike Rogers, Raggio Di Luna, Hot Cold, Eugene, Max Coveri, as well as obscure Italo disco acts.

Italian Hospital of Montevideo

The initial objective of the institution created under the supervision and direction of the italo-Uruguayan architect Luis Andreoni, was to provide basic health services, to confront the high percentage of infant mortality, product of the scarcity of resources and of public access to hospitals.

Italians in the United Kingdom

The fifteenth century also saw the birth of a pivotal Italo-Englishman in the form of John Florio, a famed language teacher, lexicographer, and translator.

Ítalo Piaggi

Lieutenant-Colonel Ítalo Ángel Piaggi (17 March 1935; San Fernando, Argentina – 31 July 2012, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine Army commander who was involved in the Battle of Goose Green in the Falklands War.

Italo Zanzi

Italo Zanzi, born May 18, 1974 in New York, is a sports business executive and attorney, currently CEO of Serie A team AS Roma.

Until October 2011, Italo served as Deputy General Secretary of CONCACAF.

Italo Zanzi was a goalkeeper for the U.S. national handball team from 1997 to 2007.

L'Olimpiade

Pergolesi: L'Olimpiade, video recording – 2011 Teatro Valeria Moriconi, IesiAlessandro De Marchi (Conductor), Academia Montis Regalis, Mondavi; Italo Nunziata (stage director) – Cast: Raúl Giménez (Clistene), Lyubov Petrova (Aristea), Yetzabel Arias Fernández (Argene), Jennifer Rivera (Licida), Sofia Soloviy (Megacie), Antonio Lozano (Aminta), Milena Storti (Alcandro) – Arthaus Musik Cat.

Locomotive Breath

It was covered by Rabbitt on their 1975 album Boys Will Be Boys, by Italo-disco outfit Cat Gang in 1983, by W.A.S.P. on the reissue of their 1989 album The Headless Children (as a bonus track), Styx on their 2005 album Big Bang Theory, and Helloween on their 1999 album Metal Jukebox.

Ouchy

On 18 October 1912, the First Treaty of Lausanne was signed in Ouchy between Italy and the Ottoman Empire, concluding the Italo-Turkish War.

Pentedattilo

In the 12th century it was conquered by the Normans, and, together with Capo D'Armi, Condofuri and Montebello Ionico, it became part of a baronal fief under the Abenavoli family.

Piedone a Hong Kong

Rizzo is accused of the murder and decides to investigate the arrival of an Italo-American mafia man, Frank Barella (Al Lettieri).

Polizzi Generosa

The town probably developed as a population center in the late Middle Ages, growing around the castle built by the Norman Count of Sicily Roger I in 1076.

Robert of Loritello

Robert I of Loritello (died 1107), Italo-Norman nobleman, first count of Loritello (1061–1107)

Rosanna Marani

She has collaborated with Il Giornale d'Italia and Il Resto del Carlino under the guidance of Gualtiero Vecchietti and Italo Cucci.

Sicilian revolution of 1848

Both kingdoms had previously comprised the single Kingdom of Sicily (created by the Normans in the 11th century) during the 12th and 13th centuries, and were split in two following the revolt of the Sicilian Vespers in 1282.

Skatebård

Skatebård is well known for being a part of the hip-hop act Side Brok formed together with Sjef R and Thorstein Hyl III, but he is also a notable electronic artist who generally fits into the italo-disco genre.

Spiro Koleka

After completing his secondary education in the Italo–Albanian college of San Demetrio Corone (Collegio of Sant'Adriano), in the Italian province of Cosenza, Spiro Koleka continued his higher education at the University of Pisa (1930–1934) where he graduated as a Civil Engineer.

The Black Waters of Echo's Pond

The score was composed by Italo-American jazz-soloist and film composer Harry Manfredini.

Tu Voz Estéreo

Because Italo Londeros left the series, the new speaker was Sebastian (Alejandro Estrada), ex-contestant Protagonistas de novela of RCN Televisión.

Żabbar Sanctuary Museum

The paintings include works by Rocco Buhagiar, Gian Nicola Buhagiar, Rafel Bonnici Cali, Michele Busuttil, Tousaint Busuttil, Giuseppe Calì, Giuseppe Maria Caruana, Giovanni Battista Conti, Giuseppe D'Arena, Stefano Erardi, Rafael Gagliardi, Tommaso Madiona, Mattia Preti, Italo Horatio Serge, Filippo Venuti and Francesco Zahra.


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