Crotone appears in the Philippine national epic Florante at Laura as the Kingdom of Krotona.

Several tribes including the Lucani, Bruttii and the Messapians as well as the Greek cities of Crotone and Locri join Pyrrhus.

In particular, in Torretta di Crucoli ( Crotone, Italy ), a new astronomical group has been created and dedicated to Luigi Lilio: Circolo Astrofili Luigi Lilio Torretta ( C. A. L. L. T.

* Isola di Capo Rizzuto, in the Province of Crotone, Calabria

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While the number of regions is somewhat stable ( the only modification to the original set is the separation of Molise from Abruzzo ), there has been a tendency in later years to create new provinces, such as Crotone, Verbania, Lodi, Biella, Lecco and others.

Unable to flee back to his stronghold in Sicily due an Imperial naval blockade, al-Qasim faced the Imperial army in a pitched battle south of Crotone at Cape Colonna on July 14, 982.

Greeks settled heavily along the coast at an early date and several of their settlements, including the first Italian city called Rhegion ( Reggio Calabria ), and the next ones Sybaris, Kroton ( Crotone ), a settlement where the mathematician Pythagoras later resided, and Locri, were numbered among the leading cities of Magna Graecia during the 6th and 5th centuries BC.

* July 13 – The Kalbids troops of the emir of Sicily defeat the imperial German army of Otto II near Crotone.

* Hannibal erects a bilingual Punic / Greek inscription describing his accomplishments in the temple of Juno Lacinia near Crotone.

* With the aid of the Lucanians, Dionysius I of Syracuse devastates the territories of Thurii, Crotone, and Locri in mainland Italy.

Zotto's successor was Arechis I ( died in 640 ), from the Duchy of Friuli, who captured Capua and Crotone, sacked the Byzantine Amalfi but was unable to capture Naples.

Around 841, the Republic of Venice sent a fleet of 60 galleys ( each carrying 200 men ) to assist the Byzantines in driving the Arabs from Crotone, but it failed.

Crotone is a city and comune in Calabria, southern Italy, on the Ionian Sea.

In 1994 it became the capital of the newly established Province of Crotone.

Thereafter it shared the fate of the Kingdom of Naples — including the period of Spanish rule of which the 16th-century castle of Charles V, overlooking modern Crotone, serves as a reminder — and its successor, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which was conquered by the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1860 and incorporated into the new Kingdom of Italy in 1861.

However, after the two main employers, Pertusola Sud and Montedison, collapsed by the late 1980s, Crotone was in economic crisis, with many residents losing their jobs and leaving to find work elsewhere.

Crotone Airport ( Sant ' Anna Airport ) is served by Italiatour. it and other charter airlines.

Crotone also has a railway station, although much of the tourism traffic is served by the Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway and the National Road ( called 106 Ionica ) leading all the Jonic ( eastern ) coast from Taranto to Reggio Calabria.

In recent time Crotone Port has been used by visitors on yacht charter cruising vacations.

Crotone is a football club in Serie B.

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As well as being home to RTÉ Radio, Dublin also hosts the national radio networks Today FM and Newstalk, and numerous local stations.

The St. James Centre, at the eastern end of George Street and Princes Street, hosts a substantial number of national chains including a large John Lewis.

The UK hosts two national competitions in which schools compete against each other directly ; the Public Schools Fencing Championship, a competition only open to Independent Schools ,< ref >

Furthermore the museum hosts several exhibitions of national and international artists during the year.

Each year Hanover hosts more than 60 international and national exhibitions.

Before Limbaugh, their day time talk show hosts were local and not particularly partisan, each quite a bit different from the other, and had diverse conversations on a wide variety of topics from both local and national politics, to food, to interviews with interesting people, book authors, and so forth.

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Tierra del Fuego hosts large areas protected as national parks and reserves, most of them in the mountainous south.

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Its business district hosts the Italian Stock Exchange and the headquarters of the largest national banks and multinational companies.

La Paz hosts the national football team and international games.

The Lower House plays a growing role as an arena for debate on national policy especially that it hosts representatives from six opposition parties.

The football stadium of Limassol is Tsirion, with capacity of 16 000, which hosts the three football teams of Limassol and in the past it hosted Cyprus national football team.

Frontier City also hosts a national concert circuit at its amphitheater during the summer.

The Capitoline now hosts Rome's city hall, and the Palatine Hill belongs to the main archaeological area.

There is textual and archaeological evidence that districts such as Trigg were used as martially points for ' war hosts ' from across the region, likely to have also included troops from overseas evidenced by corresponding place names in Brittany — a recurring motif of Brythonic Arthurian myth originating in this period, such as Tristan and Iseult.

The territory of present-day Leningrad Oblast was populated shortly after the end of the Weichsel glaciation and hosts numerous archaeological remnants.

The region hosts Monte Verde, one of the oldest archaeological sites of the Americas.

The city also has the Teatro Luigi Pirandello and an archaeological museum that hosts concerts amidst ancient ruins.