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unusual facts about Moulins-la-Marche



2002 Molise earthquake

It lasted for 60 seconds and could be felt distinctly in the centre of Molise, in the Capitanata, the Province of Chieti, and could be perceived in the Marche, Bari, Benevento, Matera, Brindisi, Rome, Naples, Potenza, Salerno, Taranto and Pescara.

A.S.D. Elpidiense Cascinare

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Elpidiense Cascinare is an Italian association football club located in Sant'Elpidio a Mare, Marche.

Alberico Gentili

Alberico Gentili was born into a noble family in the town of San Ginesio in what is now Marche, in Italy.

Aldo Maria Brachetti Peretti

Count Aldo Maria Brachetti-Peretti (born in Fermo on September 18, 1932), from a prominent family of the Marche, is chairman of the Italian company, API Group.

Ascanio Condivi

The son of Latino Condivi and Vitangela de' Ricci, Ascanio Condivi was a nobleman born in the town of Ripatransone in the Marche.

Campanile Basso

King Albert, hero of the First Word War, died in 1934, a year after his ascent of the Via Preuss, also in a fall, at Marche-les-Dames.

Canton of Marseille – Notre-Dame-Limite

It is composed of the part of the 14th municipal arrondissement of Marseille situated north-west of avenue du Marché-National, rue Jean-Queillau, chemin de Saint-Joseph à Sainte-Marthe, cité Saint-Joseph, boulevard Roland-Dorgelès, cité Les Micocouliers, boulevard Roland-Dorgelès, chemin du Petit-Fontainieu and traverse des Arcades.

Charles I, Duke of Bourbon

Peter of Bourbon, (1438–1503, Château de Moulins), Duke of Bourbon

Charles de Bourbon (1401 – 4 December 1456, Château de Moulins) was the oldest son of John I, Duke of Bourbon and Marie, Duchess of Auvergne.

Duo de l'ouvreuse de l'Opéra-Comique et de l'employé du Bon Marché

The Duo de l’ouvreuse de l’Opéra Comique et l’employé du Bon Marché (Duet of the usherette from the Opéra-Comique and the employee of the Bon-Marché department store) is a comic vocal work by Emmanuel Chabrier for soprano and tenor, with piano accompaniment.

EA Patras

In 2005-2006 EA Patras reached the quarter finals of the European Federation Cup, being defeated twice by the Italian club of Macerata Volleyball (0-3 in Patras and 3-1 in Marche).

Elio Sgreccia

He was born and raised in Nidastore, a small town in the Comune of Arcevia in the Province of Ancona in the Marche region located in central-eastern Italy.

François and Michel Anguier

The chief works of François are the monument to Cardinal de Bérulle, founder of the Carmelite order, in the chapel of the oratory at Paris, of which all but the bust has been destroyed, and the mausoleum of Henri II, last duc de Montmorency, at Moulins.

Gare of Lille-Saint-Sauveur

Ten years after the opening of the first railway station of Lille, Lille-Flandres station in 1848, the city annexed the neighboring towns of Moulins, Wazemmes, Fives, and Esquermes.

Hakimakli

He is regularly featured in electro house events, public shows and festivals like Fête de la Musique and Blueu sur le Vieux Port (Marseille) amongst others and at the radio station's very popular Podium FG at "Marche des fiertés" the Paris Gay Pride event at Place de la Bastille.

History of mining in Sardinia

In the 1930s there was extensive emigration from the mainland during the Fascist government when people from Veneto but also from Marche, Abruzzo and Sicily came to Sardinia to populate the new mining towns founded in the Sulcis-Iglesiente region such as Carbonia and Cortoghiana.

House of Malatesta

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Malatestas ruled over a number of cities in the Romagna and the Marche, including Pesaro, Fano, Cesena, Fossombrone and Cervia.

I Vincisgrassi

The band's name has its origins in a traditional food from Marche, just called vincisgrassi.

Il Messaggero

It is a national newspaper and the most popular daily newspaper in Rome and central Italy; It provides different local editions for the regions of Lazio, Umbria, Marche, Abruzzo and Tuscany.

Italian general election, 1946

While all regions of Northern Italy as far as Tuscany and Marches gave a majority to the republic, all regions of Southern Italy from Lazio and Abruzzo voted to maintain the monarchy.

Je marche seul

"Je marche seul" ("I Walk Alone") is the name of a 1985 song recorded by the French singer and songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman.

Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville

Her mother Jeanne of Lusignan was part of one of the most illustrious French families, daughter of Hugh XII of Lusignan, Count of La Marche and of Angoulême, and sister of Yolanda of Lusignan, the suo jure Countess of La Marche.

Johannes Ockeghem

Between 1446 and 1448 Ockeghem served, along with singer and composer Jean Cousin, at the court of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon in Moulins, now in central France.

Lacrima di Morro d'Alba

Lacrima di Morro d'Alba is a denominazione di origine controllata red wine that is produced in the province of Ancona, in Marche, Italy.

Leopoldo Elia

Born in Fano, Marche, he was judge of the Constitutional Court, in Carlo Azeglio Ciampi's government(1993 - 1994) was Minister for Reforms and briefly Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1994, when Beniamino Andreatta belong President of Popular Party parliamentary group.

Litfiba

Litfiba's biggest tour was immortalized on a VHS, whose profits went to the victims of earthquakes in Umbria and Marche regions, and on a double live CD both titled Croce e delizia.

Lucedio Abbey

Lucedio contributed in its turn to the expansion of the Cistercian Order by giving birth to three daughter-houses over the next eighty years: S. Maria di Chiaravalle della Castagnola (1147) in the Marche, Rivalta Scrivia (1180) near Tortona and Acqualunga (1204) near Pavia.

March for Equality and Against Racism

The March for Equality and Against Racism (French: Marche pour l’égalité et contre le racisme), also called Beurs’ March (Marche des beurs) by French media (beur is the contraction of beu-ra-a which is the backslang of arabe), was an anti-racist march that took place in France in 1983, from October 15 to December 3.

Marche

The parallel mountain chains contain deep river gorges, the best known being those of the Furlo, the Rossa and the Frasassi.

In spite of the marine impoverishment, the sea has always furnished a plentiful supply of fish, the main fishing centres being Ancona, San Benedetto del Tronto, Fano and Civitanova Marche.

Marché d'Intérêt National de Rungis

The Marché International de Rungis (or Rungis International Market) is the principal market of Paris, located in the commune of Rungis, in the southern suburbs.

Marche Henri IV

Marche Henri IV was a common leitmotif for French royalty in several 19th century works, such as in Gioachino Rossini's opera Il viaggio a Reims (in the finale, when Charles X is crowned) and in the final march in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Sleeping Beauty.

Mario Moretti

Moretti was born in Porto San Giorgio, Marche region of Italy, into a middle-class, right-wing, family.

Monte Vettore

Today climbers reach it from the Umbrian side from Norcia, or, on the Marche side, from Ascoli Piceno.

Moulins Cathedral

Moulins Cathedral Basilica (Basilique Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Moulins) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and national monument of France, located in the town of Moulins, Allier.

Neuf-Marché

Bernard de Neufmarché, Norman lord active in the conquest of Wales 1088-1095.

Peter II, Duke of Bourbon

Peter II, Duke of Bourbon (1 December 1438 – 10 October 1503, Moulins), was the son of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon, and Agnes of Burgundy, and a member of the House of Bourbon.

Pierre-Joseph Candeille

He studied at Lille before moving to Paris, where he worked singing basse-taille in the chorus of the Opéra and the Concert Spirituel between 1767 and 1781, except for a brief period (1771—1773) he spent in Moulins.

Ragenold of Neustria

"Une autre marche de Neustrie." in Christian Settipani and Katharine S. B. Keats-Rohan, Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident médiéval.

S.S.D. Centobuchi

Società Sportiva Dilettante Centobuchi is an Italian association football club located in Centobuchi, a frazione of Monteprandone, Marche.

Sammarinese cuisine

As San Marino is a microstate completely landlocked by Italy, Sammarinese cuisine is strongly similar to the Italian cuisine, especially that of the adjoining Emilia-Romagna and Marche regions.

Stock

Around 1250 in France at Toulouse, 96 shares of the Société des Moulins du Bazacle, or Bazacle Milling Company were traded at a value that depended on the profitability of the mills the society owned.

Sutor Basket Montegranaro

Sutor Basket Montegranaro, also known for sponsorship reasons as Fabi Shoes Montegranaro, is an Italian League professional basketball club from the town of Montegranaro, Marche.

Teodoro Bronzini

His parents were Italian immigrants from the town of Porto Recanati (at that time hamlet of Recanati), in the Italian region of Marche, on the Adriatic Sea coast.

Ugolino Brunforte

His father Rinaldo, Lord of Sarnano in the Marches, belonged to an ancient and noble family of French origin, from which had sprung the famous Countess Matilda.

Zingaro

Lo Zingaro (The Gypsy), a pseudonym of Antonio Solario (active perhaps 1502–1518), an Italian painter of the Venetian school, who worked in Naples, the Marche and possibly England


see also

Perche

The greater part of the district is occupied by a semicircle of heights (from 650 to 1000 ft. in height) stretching from Moulins-la-Marche on the northwest to Montmirail on the south; within the basin formed thereby the shape of which is defined by the Huisne, an affluent of the Sarthe, lie the chief towns of Mortagne-au-Perche, Nogent-le-Rotrou and Bellême.