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3 unusual facts about Ribera, Agrigento


A.S.D.P. Ribera 1954

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Polisportiva Ribera 1954 was an Italian football club based in Ribera, sicily.

Francesco Crispi

Crispi himself was born in Ribera, Sicily, to Tommaso Crispi, a grain merchant and Giuseppa Genova; he was baptised as a Greek Orthodox.

Michele D'Amico

Michele D'Amico (26 August 1900, Ribera, Agrigento - 20 September 1980) was an Italian politician.


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Walter of the Mill, archdeacon of Cefalù, dean of Agrigento and archbishop of Palermo

Acragas

Agrigento, aka Acragas, an ancient Greek city on the site of modern Agrigento, Sicily

Agrigento

Vinnie Paz, the Italian-American rapper and lyricist behind Philadelphia underground hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks.

Al-Walid I

Valladolid is an industrial city and it is a municipality in north-central Spain, upon the Rio Pisuerga and within the Ribera del Duero region.

Coat of arms of Bivona

The Coat of arms of Bivona is the representational emblem of the Italian town of Bivona, in Agrigento, Sicily, situated in the Monti Sicani mountain range.

County of Modica

The king gave the first dynasty of counts many fiefdoms in Agrigento, Caccamo, Licata and Palermo, where they built the Palazzo Chiaramonte, also known as Palazzo Steri; once the residence of the Aragonese-Spanish viceroys of Sicily and later the tribunal of the Inquisition, it now belongs to the University of Palermo.

Eduardo Fierro

Juan Eduardo Fierro Ribera (born June 23, 1988 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a Bolivian football who plays for Bolivian First Division club Sport Boys Warnes and the Bolivian national team.

Enna

In the time of Agathocles we find Enna for a time subject to that tyrant, but when the Agrigentines under Xenodicus began to proclaim the restoration of the other cities of Sicily to freedom, the Ennaeans were the first to join their standard, and opened their gates to Xenodicus, 309 BC.

Euskotren Tranbia

The stops of Bilbao-Atxuri Station, Ribera and Abando, all of them in Bilbao, do not have their own separate stop, they use the sidewalk.

Giuseppe Di Cristina

In yet another trial in Agrigento over a vendetta between Mafia clans in Riesi and Ravanusa over a refusal to stash a load of smuggled cigarettes belonging to Di Cristina.

Giuseppe Falsone

At the time of his arrest he was considered to be the Mafia boss of the province of Agrigento by police investigators coordinated by Girolamo Di Fazio.

History of Deportivo de La Coruña

A mix of veterans and younger players with the likes of Claudio, Ribera, López-Rekarte, Canales, Liaño, Kirov and Kiriakov formed the team guided by coach Marco Antonio Boronat, and Deportivo looked on their way to safety after an impressive 5-2 win in March, 1992 against Sporting de Gijón with three goals by Uralde.

Julián Ribera

James T. Monroe, Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship. Sixteenth century to the present (Leiden: E.J.Brill 1970), at Chapter VI: "Julián Ribera y Tarragó" (pages 151-173).

Londres

Londres, Catamarca, Argentina, formally 'San Juan de la Ribera de Londres' or 'Londres de la Nueva Inglaterra'

Los Serrano

It tells the story of the Serrano family, who lives in Round Santa Justa No 133, located in the fictional neighborhood of Santa Justa, in the Ribera del Manzanares, in Madrid.

Maurizio Di Gati

He was supposed to be made capoprovincia at a meeting of Mafia families from Agrigento on July 14, 2002 in Santa Margherita di Belice.

Mercat del Born

Despite this colloquial name given to the area (which is often applied to the entire district), it is still officially called la Ribera or Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera.

This portion of la Ribera was forcibly demolished to make way for the construction of the Ciutadella military structure as ordered by the new Spanish king, Philip V.

Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy

Some of the painters whose work is featured in the collections are Perugino, Tintoretto, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Caravaggio, Georges de La Tour, Charles Le Brun, Ribera, Rubens, Claude Gellée (known as Le Lorrain and Claude), Luca Giordano, François Boucher, Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Paul Signac, Modigliani, Picasso, Raoul Dufy...

Nuestra de Señora de Halle

Ribera named the fort for the city of Halle, in Belgium where he had previously spent many years in the war there.

Platani

San Biagio Platani, a municipality in the Province of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy

Raúl Argemí

Novel written between 12 different authors: Andreu Martín, Alicia Giménez Bartlett, Francisco González Ledesma, Jaume Ribera, amongst others.

Renny Ribera

Renny Ribera Vaca (born January 30, 1974 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a retired Bolivian football right defender.

Ribeira Ilhéu

Ribeira Ilhéu (in Cape Verdean Creole, written in ALUPEC: Ribera Djeu), is a village located approximately 15 km northeast of the island capital of Sao Filipe and west of Mosteiros on the island of Fogo, Cape Verde.

Ribera del Duero

Wine has been produced in the region for thousands of years, but viticulture as we know it probably arrived in the Ribera del Duero region with Benedictine monks from Cluny in the Burgundy region of France in the twelfth century.

Ribera del Gállego-Cinco Villas

Ribera del Gállego-Cinco Villas is a Spanish geographical indication for Vino de la Tierra wines located in the wine-producing areas of Ribera del Gállego and the Cinco Villas, in the provinces of Huesca and Zaragoza, in the autonomous region of Aragón, Spain.

Ribera del Jiloca

Ribera del Jiloca is a Spanish geographical indication for Vino de la Tierra wines located in the wine-producing area of the Jiloca Valley, in the provinces of Teruel and Zaragoza, in the autonomous region of Aragón, Spain.

Ribera, New Mexico

East of Ribera is the site of the Imus Ranch, a non-profit organization that helps children of all ages afflicted with cancer.

Richard J. Burke

He was married on October 19, 1940 to Josephina Battaglia the daughter of Carmelo Battaglia of Monte Maggiore Belsito, Palermo, Sicily, and Antonia Fasulo of Burgio, Agrigento, Sicily.

Rolando Ribera

Rolando Ribera Menacho (born March 13, 1983 in Trinidad) is a Bolivian football midfielder.

Santa Maria del Mar, Barcelona

The architects in charge were Berenguer de Montagut (designer of the building) and Ramon Despuig, and during the construction all the guilds of the Ribera quarter were involved.

Sonorama 2013

Sonorama 2013, or Sonorama Ribera 2013, was scheduled to be the XVI edition of the Sonorama Festival and took place at the city of Aranda de Duero in Castile and León (Spain) in mid-August.

Temple of Olympian Zeus, Agrigento

The history of the temple is unclear, but it was probably founded to commemorate the Battle of Himera (480 BC), in which the Greek cities of Akragas (Agrigento) and Syracuse defeated the Carthaginians under Hamilcar.

The Clubfoot

Art historian Ellis Waterhouse wrote of it as "a touchstone by which we can interpret the whole of Ribera's art".


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