After a short communal phase and a series of pestilences and earthquakes, the city in the fifteenth century became an Aragonese possession, and was given in fief to the barons of the Tramontano family.

The Castello Tramontano of Matera in a 19th century drawing.

Friedlander wrote that the glorification of Judaism in the letter was no more than self-defense, though “ the book does not mention the antagonists of Judaism by name, nor does it admit that its intention is to refute direct attacks .” Stein sees in the letter “ a special kind of defense, which practices diplomatic tactics ,” and Tramontano also speaks of “ an apologetic and propagandist tendency .” Vincent characterizes it as “ a small unapologetic novel written for the Egyptians ” ( i. e. the Greeks in Egypt ).

In 1514, however, the population rebelled against the oppression and killed Count Giovanni Carlo Tramontano.

* Giovanni Carlo Tramontano, nobleman

* Giovanni Carlo Tramontano, Count of Matera

On September 15, 1902, Giuseppe Zanardelli stayed at the Gran Hotel of the Commander Guglielmo Baron Tramontano of Sorrento, who was also the mayor of the city Sorrento.

Within Morumbi, the neighborhoods of Vila Progredior, Caxingüi, Jardim Guedala, Cidade Jardim, Real Parque, Vila Morumbi, Paineiras do Morumbi, Jardim Panorama, Jardim Sílvia, Vila Tramontano and Paraisópolis are found.

* The construction of Blair Castle in Scotland is begun by John Comyn.

* 1283 – Construction of Caernarfon Castle, Conwy Castle ( completed in 1289 ), and Harlech Castle are begun in Wales by King Edward I of England as a system of defenses against possible future Welsh uprisings.

* Construction of Caernarfon Castle, Conwy Castle, and Harlech Castle is begun in Wales by King Edward I of England as a system of defenses against possible future Welsh uprisings.

He was the great founding patron of the Certosa di Pavia, completing the Visconti Castle at Pavia begun by his father and furthering work on the Duomo of Milan.

Limassol has begun work on a project to build a new marina located to the west of Limassol Castle, between the old and new ports.

His last great project, begun in 1894, was the purchase and restoration of the huge Bamburgh Castle on the Northumberland coast, which remains in the hands of the Armstrong family.

Seton Castle burned down in 2005 ; fortunately all the artwork, manuscripts, books, etc., had been removed to storage before renovation was to have begun.

The finest of the dozen country houses that Nash designed as picturesque castles include, the relatively small Luscombe Castle Devon ( 1800 – 04 ), Ravensworth Castle ( Tyne and Wear ) begun 1807 only finally completed in 1846, was one of the largest houses by Nash, Caerhays Castle in Cornwall ( 1808 – 10 ), Shanbally Castle, County Tipperary ( 1818 – 1819 ) was the last of these castles to be built.

These buildings all represented Nash's continuing development of an asymmetrical and picturesque architectural style, that had begun during his years in Wales, at both Castle House Aberystwyth and his alterations to Hafod Uchtryd.

A newer sight is the Taxinge-Näsby Castle, which was begun sometime in or before the 14th century, by Bo Jonsson Grip.

Ranulf worked to complete the cathedral which his predecessor, William de St-Calais, had begun ; fortified Durham with a wall around Durham Castle, built Norham Castle to help defend the Tweed River ; and endowed the collegiate church of Christchurch, Hampshire.

Harlech Castle, begun in 1283, was effectively completed in 1289.

After four voyages to India he was nominated to the command of the Melville Castle in the summer of 1793 ; but having begun a careful study of the Bible during his voyages, and also come under the evangelical influence of David Bogue of Gosport, one of the founders of the London Missionary Society, he abruptly decided to leave the navy for a religious life, and returned to Scotland.

Gilbert de Clare had already begun to take steps to consolidate his own territorial gains, beginning the construction of Caerphilly Castle on 11 April 1268.

This practice was begun by Robert III, who regularly resided at Rothesay Castle, and first granted the title to his son David in 1398.

They are thought to have been begun by Admiral John Ross of Balnagowan Castle in 1762.

Vernon and Irene Castle, early ballroom dance pioneers, c. 1910 – 18

A game of Croquet being played at Eglinton Country Park | Eglinton Castle, North Ayrshire, in the early 1860s.

Compared to arcade ports, the ColecoVision did not offer many games original to the console, though a few notable releases are Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, War Room, Illusions, and Fortune Builder, an early milestone in the style of SimCity.

More importantly, early next year the Pathé production unit down in the south of France in Nice made le Médecin du chateau ( The Physician of the Castle ), in which there are cuts back and forth between criminals threatening a doctor's wife and child, while the doctor himself drives home to rescue them after being warned by telephone.

Branagh set the film with late 19th-century costuming and furnishings ; and Blenheim Palace, built in the early 18th century, became Elsinore Castle in the external scenes.

Harry and William were staying with their father at Balmoral Castle at the time, and the Prince of Wales waited until early the following morning to tell his sons about their mother's death.

Kenilworth Castle was founded in the early 1120s by Geoffrey de Clinton, Lord Chamberlain to Henry I.

In the early 13th century, Limburg Castle was built in its current form.

Soviet paratroopers on a light tank head towards Prague Castle, seat of the Czechoslovak government, and downtown Prague in the early morning hours of 21 August 1968

Return to Castle Wolfenstein ( RTCW ) is a reboot of the early first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3D.

Little is known for certain of his early life, though he spent some time in Ireland, in Killua Castle, Clonmellon, County Westmeath, taking part in the suppression of rebellions and participating in the Siege of Smerwick.

Donnybrook Castle, home of the Ussher family whose most famous member was James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, is first mentioned in the reign of Elizabeth I, and was demolished early in the nineteenth century.

Edward was born at Windsor Castle on 13 November 1312, and was often referred to as Edward of Windsor in his early years.

Although TSR and WotC had each in turn owned the official rights to the World of Greyhawk since the first folio edition was published in 1980, the two people most responsible for its early development, Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz, still had most of their original notes regarding the fifty levels of dungeons under Castle Greyhawk.

He tried to escape from Newgate jail in early 1438 and eventually ended up at Windsor Castle in July of that year.

They were married early the following year and left for Middleham Castle.

Sir Philip Mowbray, the commander of Stirling Castle, who had observed Bruce's preparations on the road, appeared in Edward's camp early in the morning, and warned of the dangers of approaching the Scots directly through the New Park.

Area settled by the Dutch in 1660After some early trading expeditions, the first Dutch settlement in the Americas was founded in 1615: Fort Nassau, on Castle Island in the Hudson, near present-day Albany.

The southern side of the city was the weaker and the Navarrese king Louis I built a castle in the early 14th century in the site that is known today as Plaza del Castillo ( Castle Square ).

In 1134, Robert died in Cardiff Castle in his early eighties.

The early settlement was centered on the steep-sided bluff now known as Van Castle ( Van Kalesi ), close to the edge of Lake Van and a few kilometers west of the modern city.

Most of the early settlers in Castle Valley claimed easily watered bottom lands along the creeks and rivers, and by 1879, most of the best lands had been taken up.

Documentary reference to occupation of the Castle Rock can be found as early as the mid-2nd century AD.

An archaeological survey of the castle in the late 1980s shows evidence of the site having been settled during the late Bronze Age or early Iron Age, potentially making the Castle Rock the longest continually occupied site in Scotland.