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unusual facts about Oria, Apulia



1965 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

The Men's Individual Road Race of the 1965 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 5 September in Lasarte-Oria, Basque Country, Spain.

A.S. Martina Franca 1947

Associazione Sportiva Martina Franca 1947 (usually referred to as simply Martina Franca or Martina) is an Italian association football club, based in Martina Franca, Apulia.

A.S. Noicattaro Calcio

Associazione Sportiva Noicattaro Calcio was an Italian association football club located in Noicattaro, Apulia.

Aeclanum

Two different routes to Apulia diverged at this point, one (Via Aurelia Aeclanensis) leading through the modern Ariano to Herdoniae, the other (the Via Appia of the Empire) passing the Lacus Ampsanctus and going on to Aquilonia and Venusia; while the road from Aeclanum to Abellinum (mod. Avellino) may also follow an ancient line.

Barri Jones

After receiving his D.Phil from Oxford, Jones continued to work in Italy, analyzing aerial photographs of Apulia, leading to important discoveries at Foggia.

Basque dance

The best known of these dances can be seen in the town of Lasarte-Oria.

Sorgin Dantza from Oria (Gipuzkoa) is a comical or a burlesque dance that reach their peak in the Sorgin Dantza, or dance of the witches.

Battle of Civitate

To begin with, Leo moved to Apulia, and reached the Fortore River near the city of Civitate (or Civitella, northwest of Foggia).

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.

Carapellotto

The Carapellotto is an Italian river whose source is east of Deliceto in the province of Foggia in Apulia.

Casalnuovo

Casalnuovo Monterotaro, a municipality of the Province of Foggia, Apulia

Castellana Caves

The Castellana Caves (Italian: Grotte di Castellana) are a remarkable karst cave system located in the municipality of Castellana Grotte, in the province of Bari, Apulia.

Cellino

Cellino San Marco, an Italian municipality of the Province of Brindisi, Apulia

Ciriè

In 1576 the Savoy family exchanges the Ciriè area with an access to the sea with the Doria Marquis of Genoa: Gian Gerolamo D'Oria establishes his residence in Ciriè, starting the long dynasty (the D'Oria e del Maro di Ciriè) which ruled the city till the last Marquis Emanuele D'Oria, who becomes the first mayor when Ciriè, in force of a royal decree, is established a "city" in 1905.

Conquests of Hannibal

In 210 BC, Hannibal again proved his superiority in tactics by inflicting a severe defeat at Herdoniac (modern Ordona) in Apulia upon a proconsular army, and in 208 BC destroyed a Roman force engaged in the siege of Locri Epizephyri.

Corigliano

Corigliano d'Otranto, a municipality in the Province of Lecce, Apulia, Italy

Diego Mateo

In 2000 he joined U.S. Lecce in Italy, but left the club after appearing in only one fourth of the Serie A games during the season, with the Apulia side narrowly avoiding relegation.

Emirate of Sicily

Rather than exterminate the Muslims, In 1223, Frederick II and the Christians began the first deportations of Muslims to Lucera in Apulia.

Eugenio Gaddini

Eugenio Gaddini, born in Cerignola (Apulia, Italy), received a philosophic and literary education and earned his M.D. in 1942 from the University of Rome.

Festival della Valle d'Itria

The Festival della Valle d’Itria is a summer opera festival held in the south eastern Italian town of Martina Franca in the Apulia region.

Flavia the Heretic

Set in Apulia during Ottoman invasion of Otranto, the film tells the story of Flavia (Florinda Bolkan), a middle-aged nun who collaborates with the invaders' leader Ahmed (Anthony Higgins as Anthony Corlan) to avenge her past misfortunes.

Gibberula miliaria

This species is distributed in European waters (along Spain and Portugal), in the Mediterraneran Sea (along Apulia and Greece) and in the Atlantic Ocean along the Canary Islands and Mauritania.

Hieronymus Angerianus

Hieronymus Angerianus (Gerolamo or Girolamo Angeriano) (c. 1480 but disputed see below –1535) was an influential Italian neo-Latin poet from Apulia.

Hirpini

Aquilonia and Romulea are near the frontiers of Apulia, in the southeastern portion of the Hirpinian territory.

Illyrian coinage

Between 217 BC and 84 BC the city of Oria in Italy minted coins with the head of Lapagus, the ancient Iapygian hero.

The cities which minted these early mints were Valesio, Brindisi, Nardò, Oria, Ugento, Grax and Samadi.

Jean-Baptiste Broussier

Promoted to brigadier general by Championnet for this action on the same day, he was then put in charge of the conquest of Naples, wholly destroying cardinal Fabrizio Ruffo's army, submitting the whole of Apulia after it rose against the French and captured and burned down the towns of Trani and Andria.

Labours of the Months

Otranto (Apulia, cathederal): Zodiac signs and labours form part of the mosaic scenes which cover the entire floor.

Lawrence Dentico

He is the brother of Joseph born November 5, 1898 in Gioia del Colle in the south Italian region of Apulia and is the brother-in-law to Theresa Romano, the wife of his brother Joseph.

Luigi Castiglione

Luigi "Gino" Castiglioni (born April 8, 1967 in San Severo, Apulia) is a former professional boxer from Italy, who won the silver medal at the 1991 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Maiolica di Laterza

The Maiolica di Laterza is a precious kind of maiolica made in the town of Laterza, part of the Apulia region in Italy.

Marina di Marittima

Marina di Marittima is a seaside resort on the Adriatic coast of Salento in the comune of Diso in the province of Lecce in the Apulia region of southeast Italy.

Messapii

The Messapians or Messapii were inhabited, in historical times,Herodotus ( Ζ΄ 170), says they came from Crete - the south-eastern peninsula or "heel" of Italy (Salento, modern Apulia), known variously in ancient times as Calabria, Messapia and Iapygia.

Murgia

Near Castellana there is the most important show cave of Apulia region.

Nicola Di Bari

Born in Zapponeta, Apulia, Di Bari was the youngest of ten children in a family of farmers.

Peucetius

a member of the Peucetii, a tribe who were living in Apulia in southern Italy

Rogerius of Apulia

Rogerius of Apulia (also Rogerios; Ruggero di Puglia in Italian) (c. 1205 – 1266) was a medieval Roman Catholic monk and chronicler, born in Torremaggiore, Apulia.

Saepinum

There still exists, by the gate leading to Bovianum, an important inscription of about AD 168, relating to the tratture (see Apulia) in Roman days, forbidding the natives to harm the shepherds who passed along them.

San Marzano

San Marzano di San Giuseppe, Italian municipality of the Province of Taranto, Apulia

Second Punic War

After Cannae, several south Italian allies immediately went over to Hannibal: the Apulian towns of Salapia, Arpi and Herdonia and many of the Lucanians.

SS Oria

SS Oria (1920) was a 2,127 ton cargo ship launched on 17 June 1920, by Osbourne Graham of North Hylton, United Kingdom.

SS Oria (1890) was a 2,167 ton cargo ship launched on 20 March 1890, by Thompson, R., Southwick, England.

SS Oria (1913) was a 1,845 ton cargo ship launched on 12 September 1913 in Fevig, Norway.

U.S. Bitonto

Unione Sportiva Bitonto is an Italian association football club located in Bitonto, Apulia.

U.S.D. San Severo

Unione Sportiva Dilettantistica San Severo is an Italian football club based in San Severo, Apulia.

Valsolda

It was the set of the works of Antonio Fogazzaro, including Piccolo mondo antico and Malombra; his house in Oria is still visitable.

Vincenzo Lavarra

From 1979 to 1982 he was the chief editor of the Italian communist newspaper L'Unità in Apulia.

War of the League of Cognac

In return, he received Ravenna and Cervia; cities which the Republic of Venice was forced to surrender—along with her remaining possessions in Apulia—to Charles in exchange for being permitted to retain the holdings she had won at Marignano.


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