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4 unusual facts about Monopoli


Daphny van den Brand

She won eight national cyclo-cross championships and the cyclo-cross world championship in 2003 in Monopoli.

Jacquet de Berchem

His exact activities in the early 1550s are not known, but he made the acquaintance of patrons in Rome and Monopoli, and through one of these patrons met his future wife, Giustina de Simeonibus, to whom he was married in 1553.

He seems to lived the remainder of his life in Monopoli, a town near Bari on the heel of the Italian "boot", where he lived in relative affluence, since both the governor and bishop of Monopoli were his patrons, and his wife was from an aristocratic family.

Monopoli

After the destruction of Gnathia by the Ostrogoth king Totila in 545, its inhabitants fled to Monopoli, from which it derives its name as "only city".


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The Learning Station

At that time, Hrkach, who also partnered with Monopoli in a Brevard County recording studio, joined the group.


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