This fact made Asmara the main " Italian town " of the Italian empire in Africa. In all Eritrea the Italian Eritreans were 75, 000 in that year.

Italian troops in Ethiopia numbered about 250, 000, most of them native Eritreans recruited to the Italian army.

The Ethiopians switched the focus of their attack and fifteen thousand men under Ras Kassa advanced against the Eritreans holding Mekan Pass on the Italian left flank.

The Italian forces included Italian nationals, East African colonials ( Eritreans, Abyssinians, and Somali Dubats ), and a small number of German volunteers ( the German Motorized Company ).

In the first days of August, an Italian force of irregular Eritreans raided Port Sudan as a prelude to the Italian campaign to conquer British Somaliland.

Lighting from a low angle was used more strongly in the Italian epic film Quo Vadis?

The Gospel also takes a strongly anti-Pauline tone at times, saying in the Italian version's beginning: " many, being deceived of Satan, under pretence of piety, are preaching most impious doctrine, calling Jesus son of God, repudiating the circumcision ordained of God for ever, and permitting every unclean meat: among whom also Paul has been deceived.

By then he was strongly influenced by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition.

On the other hand, the wealthier Greeks of Constantinople, and also the peoples of the Balkan and Italian provinces, strongly opposed iconoclasm.

In the past two centuries, New England cooking was strongly influenced and transformed by Irish Americans, the Portuguese fishermen of coastal New England, and Italian Americans.

From this moment on, Mazzini was more of a spectator than a protagonist of the Italian Risorgimento, whose reins were now strongly in the hands of the Savoyard monarch Victor Emmanuel II and his skilled prime minister, Camillo Benso, Conte di Cavour.

The early-1978 proposition by Moro of a DC-PSI cabinet supported also by the PCI was strongly opposed by both super-powers: the USA ( and its State Secretary Henry Kissinger in particular ) feared that the collaboration of an Italian government with the Communists might have allowed these later to gain information on strategic NATO military plans and installations, and pass them to Soviet agents.

" Whatever the concepts were, the architecture is an excellent and rare example of a thirty-year era when English architecture was in a harmonious transition from domestic Tudor, strongly influenced by perpendicular Gothic, to the Italian Renaissance classical style.

During the Neapolitan War of 1815, Naples strongly promoted Italian unification.

The Italian Campaign fought from 1943 until the end of the war in Europe largely consisted of the Allies storming strongly fortified German lines which stretched from one coast, over the mountains to the other coast.

The summer of 1827 was spent in Geneva, where he had sufficiently recovered to paint his Princess Doria Washing the Pilgrims ' Feet, a work which, like several small pictures executed in Rome, was strongly influenced by the Italian art by which the painter had been surrounded.

At time, it was an active but small faction within Italian political left, which was strongly led by the Italian Socialist Party ( PSI ), while on international plan it was part of Soviet-led Comintern.

This power has been used to a quite variable extent in the history of the Italian state, as it is strongly influenced by the political strength of individual ministers and thus by the parties they represent.

Addressing the kadi and the kaid, I said ” ‘ Know that I am an Italian protected subject .’ Whereupon the kadi said to his guard: ‘ Remove the kerchief covering his head and strike him strongly ; he can then go and complain wherever he wants .’ The guards hastily obeyed and struck me once again more violently.

Marche forms, along with Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Umbria, the Italian " Red Quadrilateral ", a strongly left-wing area.

Von Arnim, who had an acrimonious relationship with Rommel, strongly objected and it took a week for a compromise plan brokered by the Italian High Command to be agreed.

Ignatius Bonomi ( 1787 – 1870 ) was an English architect and surveyor, with Italian origins by his father, strongly associated with Durham in north-east England.

In 1938, Balbo was the only member of the Fascist regime who strongly opposed the new legislation against the Jews, the Italian " Racial Laws ".

The Italian government protested and President Hoover, who strongly disliked Butler, forced Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams III to court-martial him.

The aqueduct was a significant distance from the Italian coast, making it unlikely that a sea – borne raiding party could reach it, and it was believed that it was too strongly constructed to be destroyed by aerial bombing ; as such, an airborne raid conducted by parachute troops was thought to be the ideal way to eliminate the aqueduct.

His works are strongly influenced by both French and Italian composers:

Published excerpts of tapped telephone calls strongly suggest that Fazio favoured an Italian bid, probably in order to sabotage a foreign bid from Dutch bank ABN AMRO.

During rehearsals at the Theatro Lyrico there was an ongoing quarrel between the performers of the Italian touring opera company and the local inept conductor, with the result that substitute conductors were rejected by the audience.

The Italian nationalist movement of the 19th and 20th century regarded Ladin as an Italian dialect, a notion repeatedly rejected by Ladins.

Later accounts of other destructions of medieval Italian cities are now rejected as unhistorical: Padua by Attila ( 452 )-- perhaps in a parallel between Attila and the ancient Assyrians ; Milan by Frederick Barbarossa ( 1162 ); and Semifonte by the Florentines ( 1202 ).

Despite the fact that the traditionally Catholic powers did not come to the Pope's aid, the papacy rejected any substantial accommodation with the Italian Kingdom, especially any proposal which required the Pope to become an Italian subject.

Initially the Italian government had offered to let the pope keep the Leonine City, but the Pope rejected the offer because acceptance would have been an implied endorsement of the legitimacy of the Italian kingdom's rule over his former domain.

Between October 1947 and March 1948 the Soviet Union rejected the candidacy of 12 nominations for governor, at which point the Tripartite Powers ( United States, United Kingdom, and France ) issued a note to Moscow and Belgrade on March 20, 1948 recommending that the territory be returned to Italian sovereignty.

However the relations between the two strong-willed men, Colbert and Bernini, proved melodramatically stormy and Colbert ultimately rejected Bernini's Louvre design, though the Italian artist's bust of the king ( housed today in the Versailles palace ) won Louis's appreciation.

The European Court of Justice has in July 2008 rejected an appeal by Alitalia against the European Commission in a long-running inquiry into Italian state aid.

On 28 October 1940 Metaxas rejected an Italian ultimatum demanding the stationing of Italian troops in Greece, and Italy invaded, starting the Greco-Italian War.

In Italy, the Comintern advised an alliance between the Italian Communist Party and the Italian Socialist Party, but this was rejected by the Socialists.

Hofburgtheater, but was rejected due to his strong Italian accent and had to confine himself to mute roles.

The head of the Italian state oil company, Enrico Mattei sought membership for the Italian oil company Eni, but was rejected by what he dubbed the " Seven Sisters "-the Anglo-Saxon companies which largely controlled the Middle East ’ s oil production after World War II.

Though never a member of the National Fascist Party ( and rejected for not being a member ), or the Italian Social Republic, and constantly criticizing fascism and declaring he was an anti-fascist Evola regarded his position as that of a sympathetic right-wing intellectual, saw potential in the movement and wished to reform its errors, to a position in line with his own views.

In the 1999-00 season, on the back of his most successful season at Leeds where he also won PFA Young Player of the Year was selected in the PFA Team of the Year, Italian giants, Internazionale, had unsuccessfully bid £ 25m for Kewell but Leeds rejected the offer citing his value to their side.

In 1848, during the wars of Italian unification, Campione petitioned Switzerland for annexation, but this was rejected due to the Swiss desire to maintain neutrality.

Kovacs scavenged the material from a rejected dress that had been special-ordered by a young woman with an Italian name.

His application for admission to the Academy, which was accompanied by one of his failed Italian landscapes, was rejected in 1846.