The following month the invasion of Italy was begun, and Roosevelt gave effect to his warning by consenting to the stockpiling of poison gas in southern Italy.

Anthropology as it emerged amongst the Western colonial powers ( mentioned above ) has generally taken a different path than that in the countries of southern and central Europe ( Italy, Greece, and the successors to the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires ).

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

The sons were said to have become kings: Iocastus of the region in southern Italy as far as Rhegium ; Pheraemon and Androcles of the part of Sicily between the Strait of Messina and Lilybaeum ; Xuthus of Leontini ; Agathyrnus of what was known as Agathyrnitis, having founded Agathyrnum ; and Astyochus of Lipara.

Aeclanum ( also spelled Aeculanum ) was an ancient town of Samnium, southern Italy, c. 25 km east-southeast of Beneventum, on the Via Appia ( near the modern Mirabella Eclano ).

Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, Italy ( about to the east of Rome ), before moving to Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy.

At the end of 1131, the kingdoms of France, England, Germany, Castile, and Aragon supported Innocent ; however, most of Italy, southern France, and Sicily, with the patriarchs of Constantinople, Antioch, and Jerusalem, supported Anacletus.

Such was the influence of Byzantine art in the twelfth century, that Russia, Venice, southern Italy and Sicily all virtually became provincial centres dedicated to its production.

2nd c. BC ), whose reliability has been positively reevaluated by recent scholarship, described two advanced forms of the gastraphetes, which he credits to Zopyros, an engineer from southern Italy.

2nd c. BC ), whose reliability has been positively reevaluated by recent scholarship, described two advanced forms of the gastraphetes, which he credits to Zopyros, an engineer from southern Italy.

On 24 June 1501 his troops stormed the latter, causing the collapse of Aragonese power in southern Italy.

In ancient times, the trading and colonising activities of the Greek tribes from the Balkans and Asia Minor spread people of Greek culture, religion and language around the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, establishing Greek city states in Sicily, southern Italy, northern Libya, eastern Spain, the south of France, and the Black Sea coasts.

As a result, in many of the southern European countries, including Portugal, Spain and Italy, lawyers have traditionally been addressed as “ doctor ,” a practice which was transferred to many countries in South America ( as well as Macau in China ).

The Etruscan alphabet employs a Euboean variant of the Greek alphabet using the letter digamma and was in all probability transmitted through Pithecusae and Cumae, two Euboean settlements in southern Italy.

The alternative spelling Xavier is also popular in Portugal, Brazil, France, Belgium, and southern Italy.

" This sentence is located randomly in the middle of a discussion of southern Italy ; no further mention of Britain is made, which has led some, though not all, modern academics to suggest that the rescript does not apply to Britain, but to Bruttium in Italy.

In southern Italy, at Paestum, which was a Greek colony of the Magna Graecia, a tomb containing frescoes dating back to 470 BC, the so called Tomb of the Diver was discovered on June 1968.

The Langobard historian Paul the Deacon, who died in southern Italy in the 790s, was proud of his tribal origins and related how his people once had migrated from southern Scandinavia.

First the Latin league was forcibly dissolved during the Latin War, then the power of the Samnites was broken during the three prolonged Samnite wars, and the Greek cities of Magna Graecia who were unified after Pyrrhus of Epirus finally left Italy, requiring the Greek Cities in southern Italy to submit to Roman authority at the conclusion of the Pyrrhic War.

The following year, he allied with René of Anjou, pretender to the throne of Naples, and marched against southern Italy.

In 2003 twelve Carabinieri were killed in a suicide bombing on their base in Nasiriyah, near Basra in southern Iraq, in the largest Italian military loss of life in a single action since the Second World War.

In 2004, twelve Carabinieri were killed in a suicide bomb attack on their base in Nasiriyah, in southern Iraq.

* April 25 – 26 – WWII: Last major strategic bombing raid by RAF Bomber Command, the destruction of the oil refinery at Tønsberg in southern Norway by 107 Avro Lancasters.

Patton's armored divisions made frequent use of tactical fighter-bombers of the XIX Tactical Air Command of the Ninth Air Force to protect his right ( southern ) flank during his advance to the Seine.

It is the primary anchor transmitter for the Space Command southern " fence " ( or " Space Fence ") network for monitoring the space defense system.

And the " Fat ' h al-Mubayyin Operations Command " composed primarily of mechanized units, which was located in the southern part of the country.

This command, which had been part of Middle East Command was created when it appeared that Germany, following successes in southern Russia, might invade Persia ( Iran ).

Blaskowitz's Army Group G headquarter openly discussed a general withdrawal from southern France in July and August with the German High Command, but the 20 July plot led to an atmosphere in which any withdrawal was out of question.

After German troops captured the city of Kharkov in October 1941, the German High Command planned an offensive to destroy the Soviet forces toward the southern sector of the Eastern Front.

Following that battle and a change of overall commanders ( Prittwitz was judged to have lost his nerve by the German High Command ), François ' corps was transferred by rail to the southwest, to confront the Russian Second Army advancing into southern East Prussia under the command of General Alexander Samsonov.

This left SHAPE and Allied Command Europe with three commands: AFNORTH covering Norway and Denmark, AFCENT most of Germany, and AFSOUTH Italy, Turkey, Greece, and the rest of the southern region.

But while the United States eventually had to give in on a reduction to two commands, it was successful in that a European officer was not placed in charge of the new southern command ( now Allied Joint Force Command Naples ), a move which France and Germany supported.

Command of their army was given to Pohlmann, who had positioned his infantry to the east of the Maratha camp in the plains around the village of Assaye on the southern bank of the Juah.

However, the southern parts of the North Sea and the English Channel were made separate commands for light forces, and the growing intensity of the Battle of the Atlantic led to the creation of Western Approaches Command.

U. S. Navy and Air Force elements staged to Puerto Rico and southern Florida to prepare to support the airborne invasion, spearheaded by elements of United States Special Operations Command and the U. S. 82nd Airborne Division.

Royal Air Force Bomber Command is ordered to halt the German advance through southern Norway ; the missions require round trips, almost entirely over the North Sea.

After the end of the First World War, the division was stationed in southern England where it formed part of Southern Command.

As they did five years before, units of the 94th Army Reserve Command ; principally the 187th Infantry Brigade ( Separate ), the 167th Support Group ( Corps ) and their subordinate battalions and companies ; deployed to Canadian Forces Base Gagetown in southern New Brunswick, to simulate the defense of Iceland against Warsaw Pact forces, the CAPSTONE mission of both the 187th and 167th.

The Minnesota National Guard provides the Division Headquarters and is located in Rosemount ( Main Command Post ), and Inver Grove Heights ( Tactical Command Post ); both are southern suburbs of the Twin Cities.

During the 1940s RAF Aldermaston was created on the parkland at the southern end of the parish, with XIX Tactical Air Command stationed at the manor house.

Initially used primarily by the Strategic Air Command, they were at Morón near Sevilla in southern Spain and Torrejon near Madrid.

As head of Central Command, Kaplinski was an ex officio member of the IDF general staff ; he oversaw, among other things, area commanders for the northern and southern parts of the West Bank ( referred to as Samaria and Judea, respectively ).

On 14 July 1936, 11 Group became the first RAF Fighter Command group formed, with the responsibility for the air defence of southern England, including London.

The Air Force Space Surveillance System ( AFSSS ), also known as the " space fence ", is a very high frequency radar network located at sites across the southern United States ( from California to Georgia ) with a centralized data processing site at the Naval Network and Space Operations Command in Dahlgren, Virginia.

General Wilson was being transferred to Middle East Command, and Maclean extracted a promise that the newly trained troops would go with him, as their style of commando raids were ideal for southern and eastern Europe.