* 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.

Ferry services to Italian cities of Venice, Ancona, Pescara and Bari from around a dozen of Croatian sea ports, most notably Rovinj, Rijeka, Zadar, Split, Korčula and Dubrovnik, is available on a daily or weekly basis.

( Landmass in the backdrop is the Bari region of Somalia ).

* December 2 – A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks an American ship with a mustard gas stockpile, causin numerous fatalities ( though the exact death toll is unresolved, as the bombing raid itself causes hundreds of deaths too ).

* April 15 – The last Byzantine-controlled city in southern Italy, Bari, is captured by Robert Guiscard.

* Bari is captured by the Saracens.

The city of Bari is laid to waste for the coming ten years.

* Construction of the Cathedral of Saint Sabino in Bari is completed.

Its capital city is Bari.

Foggia is by far the least densely populated province ( 96 inhabitants per km² in 2008 ), whereas Bari is the most densely populated province ( 308 inhabitants per km² in 2008 ).

Bari ( Bari dialect: Bare ; ; ) is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia ( or, in Italian, Puglia ) region, on the Adriatic Sea, in Italy.

The slaves were mostly captured by Venice from Dalmatia, the Holy Roman Empire from what is now Prussia and Poland, and the Byzantines from elsewhere in the Balkans, and were generally destined for other parts of the Byzantine Empire and ( most frequently ) the Muslim states surrounding the Mediterranean: the Abbasid Caliphate, the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba, the Emirate of Sicily, and the Fatimid Caliphate ( which relied on Slavs purchased at the Bari market for its legions of Sakalaba Mamluks ).

The affair is the subject of two books: Disaster at Bari, by Glenn B. Infield, and Nightmare in Bari: The World War II Liberty Ship Poison Gas Disaster and Coverup, by Gerald Reminick.

Bari is known throughout Italy for its unique, often crude, spoken dialect, particularly in the Old Town, parts of which originated from a pidgin between Italian and Greek fishermen in the past, and which fishermen in Greece can still understand today.

The Pinacoteca Provinciale di Bari ( Provincial Pinacotheca in Bari ) is the most important paintings museum in Puglia.

Barivecchia, or Old Bari, is a sprawl of streets and passageways making up the section of the city to the north of the modern Murat area.

* The grid-shaped Murat city Centre of Bari is said to be the largest shopping centre in all of Italy and contains a large number of high street stores and smaller shops with particular attention to high fashion and tailoring.

Molfetta is a city and comune of the province of Bari in the southern Italian region of Apulia, on the Adriatic coast, at sea-level.

It is 25 km ( 15 mi ) WNW of Bari.

In that interval, the German bombers made a hell of Bari harbor.

So in 869 he made alliance with the eastern emperor, Basil I, who sent him ships to assist in the capture of Bari, capital of a local Islamic emirate, which succumbed in 871.

The Italian scientist and one of the pioneers in wireless telegraphy, Guglielmo Marconi, made a radio connection between Bar and Bari on August 30, 1904, and in 1908 the first railroad in this part of the Balkans was put into operation in 1913.

On March 27, 2008 Đukanović made a low profile visit to the prosecutor's office in Bari.

Fulcher was part of the entourage of Count Stephen of Blois and Robert of Normandy which made its way through southern France and Italy in 1096, crossing into the Eastern Roman Empire from Bari and arriving in Constantinople in 1097, where they joined with the other armies of the First Crusade.

Cassano was spotted by an A. S. Bari scout and brought up through the team's youth system, and he made his Serie A debut for Bari against local rivals U. S. Lecce in 1999.

In June 2001 Bari acquired him outright for about € 300, 000, made Juventus booked a financial cost of € 1. 25 million for the discount.

Quaresma made his debut for the new season against Bari, coming on as a substitute for Patrick Vieira.

One of their players was called up to the Italian national football team that season for the first time, in the form of Raffaele Costantino, this made Bari the first Serie B club to contribute a player and a scorer to the national side.

As Maclean was preparing to go back to Bari and Bosnia, he received news that the enemy had made a fierce attack on Partisan headquarters at Drvar, later known as the Knight's Move.

On 14 December of the same year, with the blessing of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, she made a pilgrimage to Bari, Italy, and visited Pope Benedict XVI and Secretary of State of the Holy See, Cardinal-Camerlengo Tarcisio Bertone in the Vatican.

Jhala Maan of Bari Sadri took away the royal insignia from Maharana Pratap who, though wounded himself, was fighting valiantly, and made him leave the battlefield.

The components of a typical traditional Bari dowry are made up of live animals, averaging 23 heads of cattle ( cows, calves and bulls ), 40 goats and sheep.

Over the course of three seasons in Italy, Cowans made 94 appearances for Bari, scoring three goals.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

On the night of December 2, 1943, German Junkers Ju 88 bombers attacked the port of Bari, which was a key supply centre for Allied forces fighting their way up the Italian Peninsula.

On 24 May 1990, in Oakland, California, Bari and Darryl Cherney were blown up by a bomb planted in their vehicle.

After his death a memorial tablet was set up in the house in which he was born at Bari.

In early 1947, in the months leading up to the deliberations of the Punjab Boundary Commission, the main disputed areas appeared to be in the Bari and Bist doabs, although some areas in the Rechna doab were claimed by the Congress and Sikhs.

The presbytery has a high altar with ciborium, set on a marble base with three steps, surmounted by a canopy supported by four red marble columns with Corinthian capitals, octagonal pyramid in two sections held up a total of 48 columns of the same marble, very similar to that in the Basilica of San Nicola di Bari.

However, this was not to be ; although, for a while, the Eighth Army was able to make relatively easy progress up the eastern coast, capturing the port of Bari and the important airfields around Foggia.

He studied in Torino ( Turin ), held a post as assistant professor at the Turin Polytechnic, and in 1923 took up the chair of financial mathematics at the Economics Institute in Bari.

A review of the flows in the two river systems revealed that prior to partition of the country and up to the time of the signing of the Indus Treaty, of water was under utilization through major irrigation systems such as the Upper Bari Doab Canal System ( 1959 ) and the Lower Bari Doab Canal System ( 1915 ).

Take this story from David Platt's 1995 autobiography, Achieving the Goal, about the day he played at Sampdoria for Bari and, lining up in the tunnel, became aware that Mancini was looking his way.

Maclean, on his way back from London, caught up with the Marshall at Bari, and found him proposing to establish his base on Vis.

Generally, the Bari have co-existed well with the neighboring ethnic groups, but have had to pick up arms to defend their land against slave traders, and plundering warriors.

Greek merchant families already had contacts in other countries and during the disturbances many set up home around the Mediterranean ( notably Marseilles in France, Livorno, Calabria and Bari in Italy and Alexandria in Egypt ), Russia ( Odessa and St Petersburg ), and Britain ( London and Liverpool ) from where they traded, typically in textiles and grain.

Despite German attempts to locate him during his escape, Tito was picked up by an Allied aircraft on 3 June 1944 from an airfield in the Kupres Valley and flown to Bari, Italy.

Facing a number of naval threats, Prince Domagoj ( 864 – 876 ) built up the Croatian navy again and helped the Franks conquer Bari in 871.

During Cowans ' transfer to Bari, Villa had retained the option of first refusal to buy him back should Bari decide to sell him ; in 1988, Graham Taylor took up this option – much to the pleasure of Villa supporters – and Villa went on to finish as runners-up in the league during the 1989 / 90 season, before Taylor left the club to manage England.