The King still lost, she was given shelter and food by servants of King Roger II of Sicily, until the King eventually reached Calabria, and she set out to meet him there.

Reggio Calabria is located in the in the last point of the " boot " of the Italian peninsula, between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Ionian Sea, in front there is the Strait of Messina, and neighbor across there is the homonymous city.

From there he went to Italy where he founded the towns of Petilia and Crimissa in Calabria and established the Brutti.

On 9 August Rome ordered that Guzzoni's authority should be extended to Calabria and that he should transfer there forces which would usefully reinforce the area.

His patron there was Roger I of Sicily, Count of Sicily and Calabria and uncle of the Duke of Apulia, who granted them the lands they occupied, and a close friendship developed.

In consequence of having slain a man in a duel he was sent back to Naples ; there he served under Joachim Murat with the rank of general, and fought against the Anglo-Sicilian forces in Calabria and at Messina.

The ' Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type criminal organisation based in Calabria, and in particular the Piromalli clan, exploited the construction of the steelworks until the project was abandoned in 1979 when the crisis in the steel industry could no longer be ignored and the government decided there was no economic base for it.

* 413 – Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, who are plundered by the Visigoths.

For some Italians, especially from the region of Calabria ( Reggio Calabria ), fried smelts are a traditional part of Christmas Eve dinner consisting of multiple courses of fish.

* May 8 – Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, who are plundered by the Visigoths.

The Pollino Mountains in the north of the region are rugged and form a natural barrier separating Calabria from the rest of Italy.

The main Calabrian ports are in Reggio Calabria and in Gioia Tauro.

The city of Reggio Calabria, formerly the colony of Magna Grecia, has to consolidate the existing relations of cooperation with some Greek cities which are linked by common historical and cultural roots.

* also substantively, the title was granted by popes and secular monarchs to specific individuals and to the heads of some high-ranking European families who, however, never exercised dynastic sovereignty and whose cadets are not entitled to share the princely title, e. g. de Beauvau-Craon, Colonna, von Bismarck, von Dohna-Schlobitten, von Eulenburg, de Faucigny-Lucinge, von Lichnowsky, von Pless, Ruffo di Calabria, ( de Talleyrand ) von Sagan, van Ursel, etc.

Turi from Calabria and Colle der Fomento from Rome are considered hardcore rappers by many.

* Calabria and Messapia are annexed by the Roman Republic.

It is a descendant of the spicy salamis of southern Italy, such also as salsiccia Napoletana piccante, a spicy dry sausage from Naples or the soppressata from Calabria, the main differences are that Pepperoni has a finer grain, is usually softer, less " aged ", and produced with use of a " synthetic gut " almost exclusively produced in an " industrial " way, so not as artisanal as the previously mentioned Italian salamis and sausages.

The emigrant Italians who have come to the Para are predominantly in the South of Italy, originating in Calabria, Campania and Basilicata.

Also from around 1460 are the two small panels depicting Abraham Served by the Angels and St. Jerome Penitent now in the Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia in Reggio Calabria.

Many Italians moved to Westerly from Italy at the turn of the century ( particularly from Sicily and Calabria ), and Italian dialects are still spoken at the homes of many older residents.

In parts of Calabria, the anchovy or a sultana variety are consumed on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

The Arbëreshë are a linguistic and ethnic Albanian minority community living in southern Italy, especially the regions of Basilicata, Molise, Apulia, Calabria and Sicily.

Bilingual signs in Piana degli AlbanesiIn the case of Calabria, the region is to provide for recognition of the historical culture and artistic heritage of the populations of Arbëresh origin and to promote the teaching of the two languages in the places where they are spoken.

The first Versace boutique was opened in Milan's Via della Spiga in 1978, ( though the Versace family are from Reggio Calabria ) and its popularity was immediate.

The Neapolitan dialects are distributed throughout most of continental southern Italy, historically united during the Kingdom of Naples and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, specifically southern Lazio ( Gaeta and Sora districts ), southern Marche, Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata, Campania ( Naples ), northern and central Apulia, and northernmost Calabria.

The dialects are part of a varied dialect continuum, so the varieties in southern Lazio, Marche, Abruzzo, Molise, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria can typically be recognizable as regional groups of dialects.

The southernmost regions of Italy — most of Calabria and southern Apulia, as well as Sicily — are home to Sicilian rather than Neapolitan.

Reggina Calcio are an Italian association football club, the main club of the city of Reggio Calabria.

Some of its beaches, woodlands and mountains are preserved in several National Parks, other major examples include ' La Sila ', a mountainous plateau occupying the provinces such as Cosenza and Catanzaro in the region of Calabria.

He was going to do one or two more films for cash and then chuck it all, leave Rome and its intellectual cliques and money-fed life, go back to Calabria.

The region is served by three heavily used roads: two national highways along the coasts and the A3 motorway, which links Salerno and Reggio di Calabria along the old inland route.

Is the center of the Regional Council of Calabria and of two recently founded universities: the " Mediterranea " University, and the " Università per Stranieri " (' University for Foreigners ').

The marriage of Marie of Bourbon, niece of Philip of Burgundy, with John, duke of Calabria, René's eldest son, cemented peace between the two princes.

On the fall of Napoleon his father returned to Naples and suppressed the Sicilian constitution and autonomy, incorporating his two kingdoms into that of the Two Sicilies ( 1816 ); Francis then assumed the revived title of duke of Calabria.

Over the centuries, the Arbëreshë have managed to maintain and develop their identities, thanks to their stubbornness and cultural value exercised mainly by the two religious communities of the Eastern Rite Greek-Byzantine, based in Calabria, the " Collegio Corsini " ( 1732 ) and then " Corsini-Sant ' Adriano " in 1794 and Sicily in the " Seminario Greco-Albanese of Palermo " ( 1735 ) then transferred to Piana degli Albanesi in 1945.

The main invasion force landed around Salerno on the western coast in Operation Avalanche, while two supporting operations took place in Calabria ( Operation Baytown ) and Taranto ( Operation Slapstick ).

Remarkably two province capitals share the name " Reggio ": Reggio nell ' Emilia, the capital of the Reggio Emilia province, in the Emilian part of the Emilia-Romagna region, and Reggio Calabria, the capital of the homonymous province.

He also published two complete vocabularies of the dialects spoken in Calabria ( 1938-1939 ) and in Salento ( 1956-1961 ).

i Bronzi di Riace ( Italian for " Riace bronzes ") are two famous full-size Greek bronzes of nude bearded warriors, cast about 460 – 430 BC and housed by the Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia in Reggio Calabria, Italy.

Cosenza is a city located at the confluence of two historic rivers, the Busento and the Crathis, in the Calabria region of southern Italy.

Catanzaro ( or ; ), also known as the city of the two seas, is an Italian city of 96, 000 inhabitants and the capital of the Calabria region and of its province.

Southern Italy, with the exception of Apulia, current Calabria and Sicily, were also occupied by the two semi-independent Lombard duchies of Spoleto and Benevento.

Geographically, the bridge was planned to connect Reggio Calabria to Messina, the two cities which face each other on either side of the strait and form a single city.

Francesco Fortugno, vice-president of the Council of Calabria and member of The Daisy ( DL ), was murdered on 16 October 2005 by two killers when he was waiting in line to vote in a polling station in Locri.

) as well as San Costantino Albanese and San Paolo Lucano in southern Basilicata ; ( vi ) settlements in southern Calabria, e. g. San Nicola dell ' Alto and Vena di Maida ; ( vii ) Sicilian zone: Piana degli Albanesi and two nearby villages near Palermo ; ( viii ) formerly also Villabadessa in Abruzzi ; an outlying dialect of Albanian

The various dialects of Calabria are part of a strong continuum that are generally recognizable as Calabrian, but that are usually divided into two different language groups.

Salina has two ports, Santa Marina and Rinella, served by ferries and hydrofoils from Hydrofoil service is active from Naples, Palermo, Reggio Calabria, Messina and Milazzo.

HRH Don Carlos Maria Alfonso Marcel de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y Borbón-Parma, Infante of Spain, Prince of the two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria ( born 1938 ), cousin of the King, received the title Infante of Spain by Royal Decree 2412 dated December 16, 1994.

Taking place in eighteenth-century Italy, it follows the paths of two unlikely collaborators: a Venetian noble and a maestro from Calabria, both trying to succeed in the world of the opera.