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2 unusual facts about Latium


Andrea Giani

After having trained with the father, now a rowing coach, Andrea tried for brief period as a football player, in 1985 the 14 year old Giani began his career as a volleyball player in the local team of Sabaudia, in the Southern Latium, where he lived.

Francesco Lodi

Despite his form, Empoli opted to keep the player at the Latium-based club, where Lodi would continue his form.


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Alfonso of Hauteville

He died on 10 October 1144 during a second invasion with his brother, this time in Latium against Pope Lucius II, where they marched on Rieti and Cagnano Amiterno.

Antemnae

Antemnae (Latin ante amnem, sc. Anienem; Varro, Ling. Lat. v. 28), an ancient village of Latium, situated on the west of the Via Salaria, two miles north of Rome, where the Anio falls into the Tiber.

Boville

Bovillae, ancient town of Latium, currently part of Marino, in the Province of Rome

Colleferro Calcio 1937

TheSports Association Football Colleferro is an Italian football club based in Colleferro (RM), which currently plays in the non-professional league Eccellenza in the Latium region.

Corioli

The site is apparently to be sought in the North-Western portion of the district between the sea, the river Astura and the Alban Hills; but it cannot be more accurately fixed (the identification with Monte Giove, South of the Valle Aricciana, rests on no sufficient evidence), and even in the time of Pliny it ranked among the lost cities of Latium.

Francesco Traballesi

In the Town Hall of Tivoli, the ancient Tibur in Latium, are two frescoes by Traballesi (1574), with scenes of The mythic foundation of Tibur.

Latin kings

Latin kings of Alba Longa, series of legendary kings of Alba Longa, in Latium

Latin Settlement

Latium, Washington County; the founder was the German Victor Witte (1820-1900), among the first settlers were the artist Rudolph Melchior and Wittes Schwager, as well as the engineer Hermann Rogalla von Bieberstein.

Louis Billot

Louis Billot (12 January 1846 in Sierck-les-Bains, Moselle, France – 18 December 1931 in Ariccia, Latium, Italy) was a French Jesuit priest and theologian.

Remi

A founding myth preserved or invented by Flodoard of Reims (d. 966) makes Remus, brother of Romulus, the eponymous founder of the Remi, having escaped their fraternal rivalry instead of dying in Latium.

Verdicchio

Cerveteri DOC (Latium) – Primarily Trebbiano, Romagnolo, Giallo and Malvasia with up to 15% of Verdicchio permitted along with Friulano, Bellone and/or Bombino.

Zampogna

This practice of using the synthetic bag is particularly popular among the pipers from Scapoli in the Molise region, and those of Atina in Latium.


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