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.

Non-English names include Treno suburbano in Italian, Cercanías in Spanish, Rodalies in Catalan, Nahverkehrszug in German ( and in most larger cities S-Bahns though these trains also often include city centre metro-like sections where lines have merged and services become more frequent, and stations are closer together to better distribute passengers into the city core ), Train de banlieue in French, Příměstský vlak in Czech and Elektrichka in Russian.

The Cathars were largely a homegrown, Western European / Latin Christian phenomenon, springing up in the Rhineland cities ( particularly Cologne ) in the mid-12th century, northern France around the same time, and particularly southern France — the Languedoc — and the northern Italian cities in the mid-late 12th century.

In the Languedoc and northern Italy, the Cathars would enjoy their greatest popularity, surviving in the Languedoc, in much reduced form, up to around 1325 and in the Italian cities until the Inquisitions of the 1260s – 1300s finally rooted them out.

Catharism disappeared from the northern Italian cities after the 1260s, under pressure from the Inquisition.

The Fascists met little serious resistance from authorities and proceeded to take over several northern Italian cities.

Riots broke out in several Italian cities, and within two weeks, the Crispi government collapsed amidst Italian disenchantment with " foreign adventures ".

In many German and Italian cities, the more powerful guilds often had considerable political influence, and sometimes attempted to control the city authorities.

His work can be found in many other Italian cities, including in Ferrara, Bologna, Naples and Milan, where he designed the facade of Santa Maria presso San Celso.

But, soon after the Italian invasion, the Greeks counter-attacked and a sizeable portion of Albania was in Greek hands ( including the cities of Gjirokastër and Korçë ).

The transfer of debt, which was " not permissible under Roman law but became widely practiced in medieval Europe, especially in commercial transactions ", was due to the large extent of the " trade conducted by the Italian cities with the Muslim world in the Middle Ages ".

The population of Italy almost doubled during the twentieth century, but the pattern of growth was extremely uneven due to large-scale internal migration from the rural South to the industrial cities of the North, a phenomenon which happened as a consequence of the Italian economic miracle of the 1950-60s.

Following the war, Yugoslavia acquired the Italian territory of Istria as well as the cities of Zadar and Rijeka.

With help from the Italian city-states and other adventurers, notably King Sigurd I of Norway, Baldwin captured the port cities of Acre ( 1104 ), Beirut ( 1110 ), and Sidon ( 1111 ), while exerting his suzerainty over the other crusader states to the north – Edessa ( which he had founded in 1097 during the crusade ), Antioch, and Tripoli, which he helped capture in 1109.

Likewise, citizens of the Italian city-states owed nothing as they lived in autonomous quarters in the port cities.

At the time Italian architecture was introduced in Lithuanian cities, and Lithuanian literature written in Latin flourished.

Cato also wrote the first Latin history of Rome and of other Italian cities.

As the Middle Ages progressed in Italy, Italian cities began to rely mostly on mercenaries to do their fighting rather than the militias that had dominated the early and high medieval period in this region.

Associated with the Fête de la Musique, created by Jack Lang in Paris in 1981 to celebrate music and musicians, the Festa was incorporated into the Italian Minister of Culture's agenda in 1994, and has since spread across Italy as well as the world, encouraging the cooperation and musical exchanges between the participating cities.

Machiavelli was born in a tumultuous era — popes waged acquisitive wars against Italian city-states, and people and cities might fall from power at any time.

Like most northern Italian cities, it was nominally a part of the Holy Roman Empire created by Charlemagne, but locally ruled by its bishops, the first being Guibodus.

Through Hannibal's inability to take strategically important Italian cities, the general loyalty Italian allies showed to Rome, and Rome's own inability to counter Hannibal as a master general, Hannibal's campaign continued in Italy inconclusively for sixteen years.

Jones first concentrated on the Italian Baroque, a style then out of favor and relatively inexpensive in the years immediately following the war.

Almost half of all the Italian forces in East Africa were concentrated and engaged the Ethiopians who defeated them decisively.

Italian is co-official with French, German and Romansch in Switzerland, with most of the 0. 5 million speakers being concentrated in the south of the country in the cantons of Ticino and southern Graubünden.

De Gages moved from Modena towards Lucca, the Spaniards and French in the Alps under Marshal Maillebois advanced through the Italian Riviera to the Tanaro and in the middle of July the two armies were at last concentrated between the Scrivia and the Tanaro, to the unusually large number of 80, 000.

When out of the studio, Corot traveled throughout France, mirroring his Italian methods, and concentrated on rustic landscapes.

Since the popularity of Italian art was then at its height among British connoisseurs, they concentrated on paintings that showed obvious Italian influence, largely ignoring others such as Las Meninas.

In the 1960s, films concentrated mostly on the subject of the World War II occupation of Albanian by Italian and German armies and the fight for liberation.

* Italian ice, a frozen dessert made from either concentrated syrup flavoring or fruit purees.

However, he couldn't get used to the climate and returned to Rome where he concentrated on his writing and his promotion of the Italian rules of the game.

In the end, the Italian commander of the unit called down concentrated artillery fire onto his own overrun positions and saved the day.

In Ottoman times, the area was named " Punta " ( a Greek word coming from the word " ponte " meaning in Italian " the point "; the name cited as La Pointe in French sources or in sources that borrow from them ) and was the part of the city where the upper middle class ( mainly Italians and some Greeks ), was concentrated.

Jones first concentrated on the Italian Baroque, a style then out of favor and relatively inexpensive in the years immediately following the war.

Subsequent expansion concentrated on the sprawling side wings, most notably the Italian rotunda ( 1796 ) that would become a study of Alexander II sixty years later.

But, since the main fighting at that time was centered on Italian advances towards Moyale in Kenya, the Rhodesians concentrated on that town.

Under his direction, a plan was devised which concentrated defensive resources on the strategically important port of Mombasa which was judged to be the most likely Italian target.

Italian site " Emotional Breakdown " gave a positive review of Orchid's compilation album Totality, saying: " are the concentrated essence of the most poignant music you can imagine: the vocal cords that are pulled until they tear, the music sounds dark and desperate.

He wrote no operas, which was unusual among Italian composers of his generation, but instead concentrated on instrumental music and songs, producing also an oratorio, Samuel.

German and Italian capital ships are concentrated in the Mediterranean Sea next to Spain.

At first, the Clarks concentrated on Italian, Dutch, and Flemish Old Master paintings.

By 1927, Italians owned 500 grocery stores, 257 restaurants, 240 pastry shops, and numerous other food related businesses that were concentrated in the Italian neighborhoods.

With the alliance with Britain just before the war, France's naval assets were concentrated in the Mediterranean, largely to face off the Italian fleet.

The Italian population of Dalmatia, concentrated in Zara, suffered huge civilian losses due to allies bombardments in 1944.