Moreover Cirulla players whose hand of three cards adds up to less than 7 ( 9 in some regions, it's better according whit the other players the used value ) have to put all of them down on the table and mark three points as if he scored that many " scopa ", if the hand is made up of three identical cards he has to lay them down and mark ten " scopa " for himself.

With such a high degree of point-awarding combinations and the possibility of scoring dozens of points in a single hand Cirulla games are tense affairs, where seemingly desperate situations can be reversed in a matter of minutes and where the ultimate goal can be set at hundreds of points, up to 1001 in some cases.

Genoese is not a likely possibility as Corsican is attested before the presence of Genoa on Corsica, and the linguistic features of Corsican do not match well with those of Genoese.

Landolfo Ruffolo is reduced to poverty, turns corsair, is captured by Genoese, is shipwrecked, escapes on a chest full of jewels, and, being cast ashore at Corfu, is hospitably entertained by a woman, and returns home wealthy.

** Peter Paul Rubens begins work on his famous classical tapestries, when a contract is signed in Antwerp with cloth dyers Jan Raes and Frans Sweerts in Brussels, and the rich Genoese merchant Franco Cattaneo.

* As part of the treaty of Anagni, the king of Aragon is recognized as ruler of the Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica by the pope but both islands remain in practice under Pisan and Genoese control.

The former is under the command of Edward III of England and the latter under that of Admiral Hugues Quiéret and treasurer Nicholas Béhuchet assisted by Genoese mercenary galleys under Egidio Bocanegra.

* Corfu is occupied by the Genoese.

Nowadays, the city center is mainly composed of the " citadelle ", the stronghold, also called Terra-Nova, with the Genoese Governors ' Palace, the old port and its popular quarter and the market plaza, and finally the ensemble of buildings along the " Boulevard Paoli ", the main commercial street of the city, which lies from the Justice Court to the Avenue Maréchal Sebastiani.

In the earliest significant source on van Eyck, a 1454 biography in Genoese humanist Bartolomeo Facio's De viris illustribus, Jan van Eyck is named " the leading painter " of his day.

Froissart writes that English cannon made " two or three discharges on the Genoese ", which is taken to mean individual shots by two or three guns because of the time necessary to reload such primitive artillery.

The battle is described in some detail, including, for example the failure of the Genoese bowmen, attributed in the book, as above, to wet strings ; and also the merciless treatment of the French wounded.

Genoa ( ; Genoese and Ligurian Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua ) is the capital of Liguria and the sixth largest city in Italy, with a population of 608, 676 within its administrative limits on a land area of.

This episode in the city's history is mainly remembered for the Genoese revolt, precipitated by a boy named Giovan Battista Perasso and nicknamed Balilla, who threw a stone at an Austrian official and became a national hero to later generations of Genoese ( and Italians in general ).

It is named for the Genoese explorer Giovanni Caboto.

Cilicia Trachea (" rugged Cilicia "— Greek: Κιλικία Τραχεία ; the Assyrian Khilakku or Khilikku, also sometimes transcribed as Hilakku or Hilikku, classical " Cilicia ") is a rugged mountain district formed by the spurs of Taurus, which often terminate in rocky headlands with small sheltered harbors, a feature which, in classical times, made the coast a string of havens for pirates, but which in the Middle Ages led to its occupation by Genoese and Venetian traders.

The City of the Sun is presented as a dialogue between " a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller and a Genoese Sea-Captain ".

On the external wall legislators are depicted ; and it is here, in “ a place of great honor ”— but along with Moses, Osiris, Jove, Mercury and Muhammad — that the Genoese sailor recognizes Christ and the twelve apostles.

In Cyprus the pancake recipe is used for a similar dish such as Genoese canelloni -- ground meat with tomato sauce, cheese, and sometimes bechamel sauce -- instead of the traditional canelloni dried pasta sold at supermarkets.

The Galata Tower ( Galata Kulesi in Turkish ) — called Christea Turris ( the Tower of Christ in Latin ) by the Genoese — is a medieval stone tower in the Galata district of Istanbul, Turkey, just to the north of the Golden Horn.

However, he made the mistake of favouring the Genoese too highly by awarding them Tenedos.

After their expulsion by the popular forces under Boccanegra ’ s lead, the republic remained in Genoese hands until 1396, when the internal instability led the doge Antoniotto Adorno to surrender the title of Seignior of Genoa to the king of France.

The ruins of a Genoese fortress positioned high on a clifftop above the entrance to the Balaklava Inlet are a popular tourist attraction and have recently become the stage for a Medieval festival.

Today it is a popular resort, best known for its Genoese fortress, the best preserved on the northern shore of the Black Sea.

Genoese came during the 18th and 19th centuries, especially from the poorer parts of Liguria, some of them annually following fishing shoals, as repairmen for the British navy, or as successful traders and merchants ; many others came during the Napoleonic period to avoid obligatory conscription to the French Army.

In the 7th century, Nice joined the Genoese League formed by the towns of Liguria.

For this new way of underwater diving, the Italian frogmen trained in La Spezia, Liguria, using the local Genoese newly diffused spearfishing free diving equipment ( diving mask, snorkel, swimfins, wetsuit ), the first specially made diving watch ( the luminescent Panerai ), and the new scuba unit.

When captured the Genoese privateer Liguria on 7 August 1798, Espoirs captain, Commander Loftus Otway Bland, catalogued Ligurias armaments as: 12 long 18-pounders, four long 12-pounders, 10 long 6-pounders, 12 long wall-pieces, and four swivel guns.

Liguria, especially in former times, showed particularly severe lenition, with total loss of intervocalic / t /, / d /, / g /, / b /, / v /, / l /, / r / ( probably also / p /, but not / k /) in Old Genoese, hence müa ( Latin matura " early "), a éia e âe?

Genoese ( Zenéize ), spoken in Genoa, the capital of Liguria, is its most important dialect.

Genoese ( Zeneize ) is a dialect of the Ligurian language, the one spoken in Genoa ( the principal city of the Liguria region in Italy ).

At that time, forces under Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases, the Genoese commander of the Spanish army, would be able to pass through friendly territories to reach the Dutch Republic ; the only hostile state that stood in his way was the Electorate of the Palatinate.

In Asia that year, the Black Plague came to the troops of the Golden Horde Khanate ; the disease also affected the Genoese Europeans they were attacking, before spreading to the rest of Europe.

In 1284 the Pisans were defeated by the Genoese fleet at the Battle of Meloria, and the city was able to free itself: it became the first and only early independendant renaissance city-state of Sardinia, with statutes of its own, allied to Genoa ; the Genoese were pleased to see it thus withdrawn from Pisan control.

The Venetian and Genoese merchants paid visits to Trebizond during the medieval period and sold silk, linen and woolen fabric ; with the Republic of Genoa having an important merchant colony within the city that was similar to Galata near Constantinople ( north across the Golden Horn ) in present-day Istanbul.

The Genoese colony of Pera usurped the trade of Constantinople and acted as an independent state ; and it brings us very near the modern world to remember that Planudes was the contemporary of Petrarch.

The avenue, surrounded by late Ottoman era buildings ( mostly from the 19th and early 20th centuries ) that were designed with the Neo-Classical, Neo-Gothic, Beaux-Arts, Art Nouveau and First Turkish National Architecture ( Birinci Millî Mimarî Akımı ) styles ; as well as a few Art Deco style buildings from the early years of the Turkish Republic, and a number of more recent examples of modern architecture ; starts from the medieval Genoese neighbourhood around Galata Tower and ultimately leads up to Taksim Square.

In the 16th century the Italian Republic of Genoa was in practical terms a protected state of the Spanish Empire ; the Genoese were the bankers of the Spanish monarchy and had control of its finances.

In the 13th century, with the Fourth Crusade, Italians began invading portions of the Dodecanese, which had remained under the nominal power of the Empire of Nicea ; Venetians ( Querini, Cornaro ) and Genoese families ( Vignoli ) each held some islands for brief periods, while Basilian monks ruled on Patmos and Leros.

In the battle that broke the back of the rebellion, Bayard played the role of champion and spearhead in the French assault ; a breakneck cavalry charge up a mountain slope against a seemingly impregnable barricade, defended by a pike-phalanx of Genoese militia.

Saliceti and Montecchi left the Triumvirate ; their places were filled on 29 March by Saffi and Giuseppe Mazzini, the Genoese founder of the journal La Giovine Italia, who had been the guiding spirit of the Republic from the start.

When his father was elected King, he made an agreement with the Genoese to release him to go to Cyprus ; he negotiated with them and signed an agreement on 2 February 1383.

As the Cypriot historian Leontios Makhairas wrote, James ordered a special tax which required the Cypriots-both nobles and people-to buy an amount of salt in order to collect the amount of money needed to release his son from the Genoese ; this was achieved on October 1392, when Janus was 18 years old.

However, at the last moment the plan was betrayed, and the conspirators were arrested at Famagusta ; 28 of them were executed and this resulted in the city remaining in Genoese hands.

In 1513, after three years in exile in Rome, the Fregosi family returned to Genoa, Ottaviano was elected Doge, and his brother Federigo Fregosi ( archbishop, later cardinal ), having become his chief counsellor, was placed at the head of the army, and defended the republic against internal dangers ( revolts of the Adorni and the Fieschi ) and external dangers, notably suppression of the Barbary piracy: Cortogoli, a corsair from Tunis, blockaded the coast with a squadron, and within a few days had captured eighteen merchantmen ; being given the command of the Genoese fleet, in which Andrea Doria was serving, Federigo surprised Cortogoli before Bizerta, effected a descent on the island of Djerba and returned to Genoa with great booty.

During the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, Pula was attacked and occupied by the Genoese, the Hungarian army and the Habsburgs ; several outlying medieval settlements and towns were destroyed.

As a result, the balance of favour tipped toward Genoa, which was granted free trade rights in the Latin Empire ; besides the control of commerce in the hands of Genoese merchants, Genoa received ports and way stations in many islands and settlements in the Aegean Sea.

He reported the batman as the main unit of mass in Ayasluğ (" Altoluogo di Turchia " to Pegolotti ; modern Selçuk, in western Turkey ), equivalent to 32 Genoese pounds ( libbre ).