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.

The John Harvey arrived in Bari, a port on the Adriatic, on November 28th, making for Porto Nuovo, which, as the name indicates, was the ancient city's new and modern harbor.

Bari was chosen as a depot, not only for its seeming safety, but because of its proximity to airfields.

Thus, in the immemorial way -- in the way of the right hand that knows and the left that does not -- was the stage set for tragedy at Bari.

It was the night of December 2, 1943, and it was growing dark in Bari.

Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.

No, Bari was out of range.

It was one of the largest Empire ever established in the territory, and, at the height of its power, included the Sanaag region and parts of the northeastern Bari region of the country, an area historically known as Maakhir or the Maakhir Coast.

Giannantonio was awarded with the duchy of Bari, the position of Great Connestable and an appanage of 100, 000 ducati.

It was at Bari, when about to sail for the East, that the news of the pope's death reached Desiderius.

He was then practically welcomed into Naples by the city fathers, as the Austrian viceroy had fled toward Bari, and the fortresses held by the Austrians in the city were quickly captured.

* 1009 – 1010: the Lombard known as Melus of Bari led an insurrection against the Byzantine Catepan of Italy, John Curcuas, as the latter was killed in battle and replaced by Basil Mesardonites, who brought Byzantine reinforcements.

Mercadante was born in Altamura, near Bari in Apulia ; his precise date of birth has not been recorded, but he was baptised on 17 September 1795.

Bari became the capital of a province that extended to modern Basilicata, and was ruled by a catepano ( governor ), hence the name of Capitanata of the Barese neighbourhood.

The first historical Bishop of Bari was Gervasius who was noted at the Council of Sardica in 347.

For 20 years, Bari was the center of the Emirate of Bari ; the city was captured by its first emirs Kalfun in 847, who had been part of the mercenary garrison installed there by Radelchis I of Benevento.

It could have been Bari or Chieti for the way it smelled.

Concurrently, during a military operation in World War II, following a German air raid on the Italian harbour of Bari, several hundred people were accidentally exposed to mustard gas, which had been transported there by the allied forces to prepare for possible retaliation in the event of German use of chemical warfare.

The Normans, first called in by the Lombards to fight the Byzantines for control of Apulia and Calabria ( under the likes of Melus of Bari and Arduin, among others ), had become rivals for hegemony in the south.

Often a second alto may be substituted for the Soprano part ( AATB ) or a Bass Saxophone may be substituted for the Bari.

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

* April 9 – Following the death of Pope Gregory XI and riots in Rome calling for a Roman pope, the cardinals, who are mostly French, elect Pope Urban VI ( Bartolomeo Prignano, Archbishop of Bari ) as the 202nd Pope.

A major contribution to the competitiveness of the region's economy stems from the existence of important research and development centres such as Tecnopolis-CSATA near Bari, the Cittadella della ricerca ( Centre for research and new materials ) near Brindisi and the new software development centres, again near Bari.

Throughout this period, and indeed throughout the Middle Ages, Bari served as one of the major slave depots of the Mediterranean, providing a central location for the trade in Slavic slaves.

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 ).

Chris Wickham states Louis spent five years campaigning to reduce then occupy Bari, " and then only to a Byzantine / Slav naval blockade "; " Louis took the credit " for the success, adding " at least in Frankish eyes ", then concludes by noting that by remaining in southern Italy long after this success, he " achieved the near-impossible: an alliance against him of the Beneventans, Salernitans, Neapolitans and Spoletans ; later sources include Sawadān as well.

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.

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.

This has been welcomed by many who claim that the social life of the city, and in particular the experience for tourists in Bari, has been improved and that jobs and revenue have been created.

The city of Bari, which had been the capital of the Byzantine Catapanate of Southern Italy for centuries before the arrival of the Normans, opened its gates to the Emperor's army, and the overjoyed citizens tore down the Norman citadel.

In southern Italy the Carabinieri Command for Liberated Italy was founded in Bari, mobilizing new units for the Italian war of liberation.

Other initialisms / abbreviations often met with in this context include Tr for Treble, Mz ( or similar ) for Mezzo-soprano, Ba, Bar or Bari for Baritone and C for Contralto, this latter tending to define the gender of the alto ( s ) expected to sing the part which, if called A, might otherwise be thought suitable for Countertenors ( Ct ).

Without a thought of the consequences, she dove into the heart of the D ' Bari star and devoured its energy, causing the star to go nova — killing billions of innocent aliens in the process.

" I thought nothing of it until he asked me, very matter-of-factly, if I was staying at Bari.

There were no R.A.F. fighter squadrons on Bari airfield.

They seemed happy at the delay in unloading, glad at the chance to go ashore in a lively liberty port such as Bari.

Unsinkable slowed and stopped, hundreds of brilliant white flares swayed eerily down from the black, the air raid sirens ashore rose in a keening shriek, the anti-aircraft guns coughed and chattered -- and above it all motors roared and the bombs came whispering and wailing and crashing down among the ships at anchor at Bari.

They had winged over the Adriatic, they had taken Bari by complete surprise and now they were battering her, attacking with deadly skill.

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

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

* 1068 – Byzantine – Norman wars: Italo-Normans begin a nearly-three-year siege of Bari.

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.

* 1943 – A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including an American Liberty ship, the John Harvey, with a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.

La Banca d ' Italia in Africa, Foreword by Arnaldo Mauri, Laterza, Bari.

A large Muslim force seized Bari, until then a Lombard gastaldate under the control of Pandenulf, in 847.

Louis allied with the Byzantine emperor Basil I to expel the Arabs from Bari in 869.

Roma Bari: Laterza, 1986.