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unusual facts about Pula, Sardinia


Niña

She was captured by a pirate corsair when leaving the port of Cagliari and brought to Cape Pula, Sardinia.


117th Fighter Aviation Regiment

The 117th Fighter Aviation Regiment remained at Pula in 1948, but that same year it moved to Cerklje, where it was to remain until 1949 when it was moved to Zemun, with the new task of defending the capital city Belgrade.

2005–06 Serie C2

Division C2/A was mainly composed by Northern Italy and Sardinian teams, whereas division C2/B included North-Central and Central Italy teams, with the exception of two teams from Campania (Benevento and Cavese), and division C2/C was represented by teams hailing from Central-Southern Italy and Sicily.

Agonum muelleri

In Europe, it is found in Albania, the Azores, Baltic states, Belarus, Benelux, Great Britain including the Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, mainland Portugal, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily (doubtful), mainland Spain, Ukraine, Scandinavia, Yugoslavian states, and Central Europe.

Alberto della Marmora

After Napoleon's abdication Marmora gave his allegiance to the House of Savoy, the ruling house of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Alen Vitasović

In 1995, he was nominated for five Porin music awards, and was also the winner of the festivals in Split, Zadar, Pula, Vodice, and Korčula.

Ales

Ales, Sardinia, a small town in the province of Oristano on Sardinia in Italy

Bahá'í Faith in Italy

At that time the only Regions of Italy not to have at least one Assembly were Sassari, North Sardinia, and in Campobasso, Molise.

Bariadorgia

While Bariadorgia was first mentioned in 1822 growing in the commune of Sartène on Corsica under the synonym Carcajola, ampelographers such as Gustave Foëx of the Viticultural College at the University of Montpellier and colleague of Pierre Viala have speculated since at least the early 20th century that grape was likely introduced from neighboring Sardinia.

Bombino

Bombino nero, an Italian wine grape variety grown in Puglia, Basilicata, Lazio and Sardinia

Costantino de Castro

Costantino de Castro was a bishop of Bosa, in Sardinia, Italy.

Croatian language

There are eight Croatian language universities in the world: the universities of Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, Osijek, Zadar, Dubrovnik, Pula, and Mostar.

Defrutum

In Sardinia, the saba from grape must, from the fruit of prickly pear or more rarely from arbutus, is used in the preparation of traditional sweets and cakes.

Dwarf elephant

Fossil remains of dwarf elephants have been found on the Mediterranean islands of Cyprus, Malta (at Ghar Dalam), Crete (in Nomos Chanion at Vamos, Stylos and in a now under water cave on the coast), Sicily, Sardinia, the Cyclades Islands and the Dodecanese Islands.

Farinata

In Sassari, Sardinia, due to the historical ties with Genoa, la fainé genovese (genoese fainé), is a typical dish.

Flag of Sardinia

It's just in the time of the Catholic Monarchs and especially from the time of the Emperor Charles V, that the quattro mori are frequently used as a symbol of the Kingdom of Sardinia among the countless possessions of the Emperor, including in a book printed in the famous printing house of Plantin, Antwerp, representing the funeral procession of the same sovereign composed of bishops and harnessed horses with the insignia of each state.

Francesco Cetti

Cetti is commemorated in the name of the Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti, which was collected on Sardinia by Alberto della Marmora.

Gian Luigi Gessa

In 2004, he decided to join politics, by standing with the list of Renato Soru Project Sardinia as a regional councilor, being elected with 4613 preferences.

Gonario I of Torres

The families of Torchitorio, Athen, Salanis, Kerki, Lacon, Gunale, Thori, Serra, Orrubu, and Sogostas can be identified in the Sardinia of his day, but to which he belonged is unknown.

HVDC Italy–Corsica–Sardinia

At the Sardinian end, the new converter station was built next to the existing station but at the mainland end a new converter station was built at Suvereto.

In 1988 a third converter station, rated at 50 MW, along with a reversible ground electrode, was installed at Lucciana on Corsica, making the scheme into a multi-terminal scheme for the first time.

Italian Campaign

Second Italian War of Independence, fought by Napoleon III of France and Kingdom of Sardinia against Austria in 1859

Ivan Milat-Luketa

Numerous drawings, canvases and aquarelles make today a particular history of Pula, Dubrovnik, Županja, Kutina and Desinić.

James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline

He died at Collinton House, Midlothian, in April 1858, aged 81, and was succeeded in the barony by his son, Sir Ralph Abercromby, KCB, who was Secretary of Legation at Berlin and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Sardinia between 1840 and 1851 and to The Hague between 1851 and 1858.

James II of Aragon

Napoleón (b. Sicily, 1288 – m. 1338), Lord of Joyosa Guarda (Gioiosaguardia) and Acquafredda (in Sardinia); married a daughter of a Majorcan named Guillermo Robert.

James S. Pula

James S. Pula (born 18 February 1946, Utica, New York) is an award-winning Polish-American historian, professor, author, and Polonia activist.

Jean Thierry du Mont, comte de Gages

The war in Italy was fought between a French-Spanish coalition, commanded by Infante Felipe, son of king Philip V of Spain, assisted between others by the French Marshal Maillebois, and du Mont as Captain General of the Spanish and Neapolitan armies on the one hand, and an Austrian-Sardinian coalition, backed by Great-Britain on the other hand.

Juan Vucetich

The Croatian city of Pula has a memorial marker to Vucetich, owing to his service there while in the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

Kanfanar

Kanfanar lies at the interchange of the Istrian Y expressway/motorway B8 and A9, as well as on the Divača - Pula railway, and was formerly the junction of a branchline to Rovinj.

Kubrat Pulev

At the European boxing championships 2004 in Pula he defeated world class Alexander Povernov (World Championships Bronze medalist 2005).

La Belle Alliance

Blücher, the Prussian commander, suggested that the battle should be remembered as la Belle Alliance, to commemorate the European Seventh Coalition of Britain, Russia, Prussia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, and a number of German States which had all joined the coalition to defeat the French Emperor.

Languages of Monaco

French is the only official language in Monaco, a result of the role France has had over the microstate (see Franco-Monegasque Treaty) since the annexation of Nice and the Nizzardo (the territory surrounding Monaco), then culturally and ethnically Italian, as part of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia.

Leonardo Omar Onida

Leonardo Omar Onida (born 19 July 1973) is a poet who is artistic director of Ottobre in Poesia, an annual literary festival in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy.

LGBT rights in Croatia

The campaign included city light billboards in four cities (Zagreb, Split, Pula, and Osijek), handing out leaflets to citizens in those four cities, and distribution of leaflets to police stations throughout the country.

Limits of the Five Patriarchates

Christians ever crowd until Ravenna, Lombardy, and Thessalonika, Slavic, and Scythians, and Avars until Danube river, the ecclesiastical border, and Sardinia, Megara, Carthage, and part of Balearic Islands, and part of Sicily and Calabria, where the winds blow nasty, from the north, from the south, from the west-south, and from the east-south.

Luca Sbisa

Sbisa was born in Ozieri, a city on the island of Sardinia, Italy, the first son and second child of Massimo and Isabella Sbisa.

Luigi Nazari di Calabiana

In the frame of the hostility between the Holy See and the kingdom of Sardinia (later Kingdom of Italy), Nazari di Calabiana was considered to be on conciliatory positions, while the previous archbishop Ballerini, who during Nazari's reign resided in Seregno near Milan, remained a fierce opponent of the Reign.

Marie Bonaparte-Wyse

She maintained friendships with Hugo, Sue, Dumas and others, including Lajos Kossuth, Alphonse de Lamartine, Félicité Robert de Lamennais, Henri Rochefort, Tony Revillon, and the United States minister to Sardinia, John Moncure Daniel.

Mate Parlov Sport Centre

Mate Parlov Sport Centre is a multi-functional hall in Pula.

Nautor's Swan

The highlight of the racing calendar for Swan owners is the biennial "Rolex Swan Cup", held in Porto Cervo, Sardinia in association with the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, which traditionally embodies "The Spirit of Swan" in its glamour and quality of sailing.

Nazario Sauro

Sauro was recognized and placed on trial for his previous act of treason, and, after facing a military tribunal in Pola (now Pula in Croatia) was sentenced to death and hanged.

Pascale di Cagliari

Pascale di Cagliari is also grown in southwest Sardinia in the Sulcis region and on the island of Carloforte where it plays a supporting role in the Carignan del Sulcis DOC.

Pinuccio Sciola

Pinuccio Sciola (born 1942) is a sculptor and muralist from San Sperate, Sardinia.

Province of Olbia-Tempio

The territory includes the historical region of Gallura ("Gaddura"), the northeastern coast of Sardinia ("Costa Smeralda"), and the island of La Maddalena ("A Madalena").

Sandi Križman

Born in Pula, he started his career in hometown Žminj, staying there until, establishing himself firmly in the first 11 of the local Treća HNL squad, scoring 7 goals in 22 matches aged 17.

Sardinian language

In the 1st century AD, some relevant groups of Hebrews were deported to Sardinia, bringing various influences; the Christianization of the island would probably have brought Hebrews to convert to a sort of independent cult of Sant'Antioco (perhaps a way to preserve some aspects of their ethnicity under a Christian form), still present in Gavoi.

Siege of Lilybaeum

The city of Lilybaeum (modern Marsala), lying on the western end of Sicily, connected the island with Africa and provided Carthage with an advanced harbor on the route to Sardinia.

St James's Club

The club was founded in 1857 by the Liberal statesman the second Earl Granville and by the Marchese d'Azeglio, Minister of Sardinia to the Court of St. James's, after a dispute at the Travellers' Club.

Stagno di Cagliari

The Stagno di Santa Gilla or Stagno di Cagliari (literally ‘Pool of Cagliari’) is a coastal lagoon at the mouths of the rivers Cixerri and Mannu near Cagliari, on the Golfo degli Angeli in southern Sardinia, Italy.


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