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9 unusual facts about Lodi, Lombardy


Alahis

Finally, in 689, Cunipter issued forth with the men of Piedmont and defeated Alahis and the men of Venetia at the Battle of Coronate, on the Horn of the Adda, near Lodi.

Chaplain of His Holiness

The members of the chapters of one church in Rome and the cathedral in Lodi hold this title durante munere (i.e., while holding that office).

Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine

Early in 1796 he set out with Bonaparte on the Italian campaign, and at Lodi (Lombardy), contributed to the great victory by a brilliant cavalry charge.

Giovanni Paolo I Sforza

When his other half-brother Francesco II made a similar attempt (1525), Giovanni Paolo was besieged in the Castello Sforzesco by the Spaniards under Antonio de Leyva; three years later he was again besieged by them in Lodi, this time with victorious results.

Irisbus Arway

In Italy, it is in service with public transport companies at Piacenza, Ferrara, Brescia and Lodi and in Spain can be found in public transport companies of, for example, Madrid.

Lodi, Missouri

The community was founded in 1893 and is named after Lodi, Italy.

Milano Rogoredo railway station

The importance of this station has increased with the extension of the Milan suburban railway service to Pavia and Lodi, and the new residential district called Santa Giulia.

Ricky Gianco

Ricky Gianco (born Riccardo Sanna, Lodi 1943), formerly known as Ricky Sanna, is an Italian singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer, considered one of the founders of Italian rock music.

William VII, Marquess of Montferrat

Having become the military leader of various Lombard cities, including Pavia, Vercelli, Alessandria, Tortona, Genoa, Turin, Asti, Alba, Novara, Brescia, Cremona, and Lodi, he was also elected head of the anti-Angevin coalition.


A.S.D. MapelloBonate Calcio

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica MapelloBonate Calcio or simply MapelloBonate is an Italian association football club, based in Mapello and also representing Bonate Sopra, Lombardy.

Abbadia

Abbadia Cerreto, a municipality in the Province of Lodi, Lombardy

Andrea Belotti

Born in Calcinate, Province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Belotti started his career at the second largest team of the province, then-Serie B club AlbinoLeffe.

Angelo Motta

Angelo Motta was born in the Lombardy commune of Gessate in 1890 and in the early years of the twentieth century served an apprenticeship in Treviglio and Milan as a pasticceria artisan (a pastry baker).

Ardennes classics

Later in the year, there are two similar 'trebles' in Italy: the Trittico Lombardo with the Tre Valli Varesine, Coppa Ugo Agostoni and Coppa Bernocchi in the Lombardy Region, and the Trittico di Autunno (Autumn Triptych) with Milano–Torino, Giro del Piemonte and Giro di Lombardia.

Aurora Seriate Calcio

Aurora Seriate Calcio or simply Aurora Seriate is an Italian association football club, based in Seriate, Lombardy.

Bada Bing

All interior and exterior shots of the Bada Bing were filmed on location at Satin Dolls, an actual go-go bar on Route 17 in Lodi, New Jersey.

Battle of Sirmium

The centre, which had constituted the rearguard on the march, was commanded by Kontostephanos himself, and consisted of the imperial guards units, including the Varangians and Hetaireiai, units of Italian mercenaries from Lombardy (probably lancers) and a unit of 500 armored Serbian allied infantry, as well as the Vlach cavalry.

Besozzi

Besozzi is the surname of an ancient and noble family of Western Insubria still present in Lombardy and Ticino, with dozens of family strains.

Bonarda

Croatina or Bonarda dell'Oltrepò Pavese, grown in Lombardy, around Pavia

Cannero Riviera

Cannero Riviera borders the following municipalities: Aurano, Cannobio, Oggebbio, Trarego Viggiona; and across the lake in the Lombard Province of Varese: Brezzo di Bedero, Germignaga, Luino.

Casorate

Casorate Sempione, a comune (municipality) in the Province of Varese in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 40 km northwest of Milan and about 20 km southwest of Varese.

Central California Traction Company

The railroad operated over the same line from Stockton to Sacramento until 1998 when service between Lodi and Sacramento was suspended.

Cheikh Tidiane Gaye

His poems won prizes in poetry competition Sulle orme di Ada Negri in Lodi and he received a special mention at the IX International Contest di Trieste Scritture di Frontiera, the Literary Award dedicated to Umberto Saba.

Count Manfred Beckett Czernin

His second mission took place in March 1945 when he parachuted in Lombardy, taking command of the operations that led to the surrender of Bergamo.

Crespi d'Adda

Crespi d'Adda is a historical settlement in Capriate San Gervasio, Lombardy, northern Italy.

Davide Luppi

Born in Trescore Balneario, Lombardy, Luppi started his career at Emilian club Bologna.

Eielsen Synod

In 1985, there were approximately 50 members at just three churches: Stall Norwegian Church in Jackson, Minnesota Bethania Lutheran (Lodi / Eau Claire WI) and Immanuel in French Lake, Minnesota.

Enrico Bignami

He founded La Plebe in Lodi in 1868 to promote Giuseppe Mazzini's ideas, financing the paper from his import business.

Gian Giacomo Medici

Gian Giacomo Medici (25 January 1498 – 8 November 1555) was an Italian condottiero, Duke of Marignano and Marquess of Musso and Lecco in Lombardy.

Gianni Bugno

He ran for a seat in Lombard Regional Council in the Lombard regional election, 2010 for the centre left coalition of political parties but he was not elected.

Giovanni Battista Sassi

He painted frescos for the Palazzo Modigliani in Lodi, the Palazzo Brentano of Corbetta, where other artists such as Mattia Bortoloni, Giovanni Angelo Borroni, Giovanni Antonio Cucchi.

Giuseppe Baldrighi

Born in the town of Stradella, in Lombardy, he initially trained with an unknown painter in Naples, where his family lived.

Heinrich von Brentano

The Brentano family, of Italian (Lombard) origin, had settled in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in the 17th century and were recognized as Hessian nobles, with close contact to important figures of the German Romanticism, including Goethe, Savigny and Arnim.

Hieronymus Medices

He first distinguished himself as professor of philosophy and theology in various houses of the Province of Lombardy, whence he was advanced to a professorship in the more important theological school at Bologna.

Iseo

Lake Iseo, a lake in the Provinces of Bergamo and Brescia, Lombardy

Jean Roemer

At the close of the war he visited the great military establishments of France, Prussia, and Austria, and completed his studies in Lombardy under the guidance and auspices of Field-Marshal Count Radetzky.

John W. Collins

There has been a long-held belief that Collins was Fischer's teacher and coach, as well as a teacher and coach for William Lombardy, Robert Byrne, Donald Byrne, Raymond Weinstein, Salvatore Matera, and Lewis Cohen.

Jon Pritikin

Jon and his wife, Rhonda and daughter, Jaden currently reside in Lodi, California.

KLRS

KCAI, a radio station (89.7 FM) licensed to serve Lodi, California, United States, which held the call sign KLRS from 2007 to 2012

Laura de Force Gordon

Laura de Force Gordon (née Laura de Force; August 17, 1838, North East, Pennsylvania – April 5, 1907, Lodi, California) was an American lawyer, editor, and a prominent campaigner for women’s rights in the American West.

Lombard League

Formed at Pontida on 1 December 1167, the Lombard League included—beside Verona, Padua, Vicenza and Venice—cities like Crema, Cremona, Mantua, Piacenza, Bergamo, Brescia, Milan, Genoa, Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Treviso, Vercelli, Lodi, Parma and even some lords, such as the Marquis Malaspina and Ezzelino da Romano.

Monasterolo

Monasterolo del Castello, a municipality in the Province of Bergamo, Lombardy

Mourning Noise

Mourning Noise was an American horror- and hardcore punk band from Lodi, New Jersey, notable for drummer Steve Zing.

Okanagan Falls Provincial Park

In the 1950s, non-native tree species like Chinese elm, Norway maple, Red ash and Lombardy poplar were planted in the park.

Palazzo Castiglioni

The Castiglioni were a prominent family from the Lombard aristocracy since the 10th Century.

Perceval Doria

Between 1228 and 1243 he assumed the character of a podestà in several Provençal and north Italian cities, such as Arles, Avignon, Asti, and Parma.

Porrettana railway

On 14 March 1856, an agreement was signed in Vienna between the Austrian Empire, the Duchy of Parma and Modena, The Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Papal States for the construction of the Central Italian Railway (Italian: Strada Ferrata dell'Italia Centrale) from Piacenza to Pistoia, with a branch to Mantua and anticipating strategic links with the existing lines of Lombardy and Veneto and extensions to Rome.

Rideau Lakes, Ontario

Rideau Lakes contains many villages and hamlets, including Chaffeys Lock, Chantry, Crosby, Daytown, Delta, Elgin, Forfar, Freeland, Harlem, Jones Falls, Lombardy, Morton, Newboro, Newboyne, Phillipsville, Plum Hollow, Portland, Rideau Ferry, and Scotch Point.

Ruggero Bonghi

At Turin he resumed his philosophic studies and his translation of Plato, but In 1858 refused a professorship of Greek at Pavia, under the Austrian government, only to accept it in 1859 from the Italian government after the liberation of Lombardy.

Saint-Félix-Lauragais

In 1167 the Cathars held a Council here, attended by many local figures and also by the Bogomil papa Nicetas, the Cathar bishop of (northern) France and a leader of the Cathars of Lombardy.

SEA Group

SEA Group (Italian - Societa' Europea Autocaravan; pronounced "sayer") is an Italian head quartered motorcaravan manufacturer, based in Trivolzio, Lombardy.

Sebastiano Galeotti

Sebastiano Galeotti (1656–1746) was a peripatetic Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Florence, Genoa, Parma, Piacenza, Codogno, Lodi, Cremona, Milan, Vicenza, Bergamo, and Turin.

Sigismondo Malatesta

The following year he defended in vain Lodi against the Venetian troops under Malatesta Baglioni, and was protagonist of a famous duel against Baglioni's captain, Ludovico Vistarini.

Silvio Poma

Silvio Poma (Trescore Balneario, Bergamo, 1840 – Turate, Como, 1932) was an Italian painter, mainly painting land and lake-side seascapes of the Lombardy lake district.

Spann Watson

In 1927, the family moved north to Lodi, New Jersey, where he completed his primary and secondary education.

Torrevecchia

Torrevecchia Pia, a municipality in the Province of Pavia, Lombardy

Wilson S. Hill

Born near Lodi, Mississippi, Hill attended the common schools and the University of Mississippi at Oxford.


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