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The Battle of Adwa ( usually known as Adowa, or sometimes by the Italian name Adua ) was fought on 1 March 1896 between Ethiopia and Italy near the town of Adwa, Ethiopia, in Tigray.
Whilst the name pall mall and various games bearing this name may have been played elsewhere ( France and Italy ) the description above suggests that the croquet-like games were certainly popular in England as early as 1611.
The game of Chinese dominoes later developed into the modern game of dominoes, first appearing in Italy during the 18th century, the origin of its Western name.
Initially named " Digital European Cordless Telephone " at its launch by CEPT in November 1987, following a suggestion by Enrico Tosato of Italy, its name was soon changed to " Digital European Cordless Telecommunications " to reflect its broader range of application, including data services.
The car was first called Solitude, but got its final name from the several long distance speed records it made on the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Italy in November 1956.
The Kingdom of Italy created Eritrea at the end of the nineteenth century, using the classical name for the Red Sea (" erythra ").
Inscriptions have been found in north-west and west-central Italy, in the region that even now bears the name of the Etruscans, Tuscany ( from Latin tuscī " Etruscans "), as well as in modern Latium north of Rome, in today's Umbria west of the Tiber, around Capua in Campania and in the Po valley to the north of Etruria.
The person credited with the second vermouth recipe, Antonio Benedetto Carpano from Turin, Italy, chose to name his concoction " vermouth " in 1786 because he was inspired by a German wine flavored with wormwood, a herb most famously used in distilling absinthe.
Mussolini and the Fascists took advantage of the situation by allying with industrial businesses and attacking workers and peasants in the name of preserving order and internal peace in Italy.
Callistus obtained the right to name bishops throughout Germany, but still did not have this power in much of Burgundy and Italy.
A similar figure with the same name ( in other languages ) exists in several other countries, including France ( Père Noël ), Spain ( Papá Noel, Padre Noel ), almost all Hispanic South America ( Papá Noel ), Brazil ( Papai Noel ), Portugal ( Pai Natal ), Italy ( Babbo Natale ), Armenia ( Kaghand Papik ), India ( Christmas Father ), Andorra ( Pare Noel ), Romania ( Moş Crăciun ) and Turkey ( Noel Baba ).
Roman craftsman's organizations continued to develop in Italy of the Middle Ages under the name ars.
Since leprosy had nearly disappeared in Italy, Alberoni obtained the consent of the pope to suppress of the hospital, which had fallen into great disorder, and replaced it with a seminary for the priestly education of seventy poor boys, under the name of the Collegio Alberoni, which it still bears.
Gusana is the name of an artificial lake and of the surrounding area, in the territory of Gavoi, Sardinia, Italy.
Uldin, the first Hun known by name, headed a group of Huns and Alans fighting against Radagaisus in defense of Italy.
Faced with difficulties in Italy and confident that he would realize his wishes in Germany at a later date, Henry returned to the south, where it appeared he might unify the peninsula under the Hohenstaufen name.
It is disputed, however, whether the " Albanoi " of the events of 1043 refers to Albanians in an ethnic sense or whether " Albanoi " is a reference to Normans from Sicily under an archaic name ( there was also tribe of Italy by the name of " Albanoi ").
In response, Rome turned up the pressure, demanding that Tirana name Italians to direct the Gendarmerie ; join Italy in a customs union ; grant Italy control of the country's sugar, telegraph, and electrical monopolies ; teach the Italian language in all Albanian schools ; and admit Italian colonists.
In 1919, following a return to activity after a four year suspension of all football competition in Italy during World War I the team merged with city rival Verona and changed its name to Hellas Verona.
Saint Brieuc founded the city that bears his name in Brittany, Saint Colmán founded the great monastery of Bobbio in northern Italy and one of his monks was Saint Gall for whom the Swiss town of St Gallen and canton of St Gallen.
After World War II, when Italy was made a republic by referendum, the Regia Aeronautica was given its current name.
On Caesar's return to Italy in September 45 BC, he filed his will, naming his grandnephew Gaius Octavius ( Octavian ) as the heir to everything, including his name.

name and Italia
Greek contact with the latter resulted in Calabria taking the name of the tribe and was the first region to be called Italy ( Italia ).
The last Ausonian ruler was king Italus, from whom the name of Italy is derived: the land round Reggio was at first known as Saturnia and then Italia, which in Roman times became the name of the whole peninsula, but in those days corresponded only to present-day southern Calabria, which was also known later as Bruzium.
The name Italia was imposed upon the Roman Republic much later by the conquering Italic tribes of the contemporary Abruzzo region, centering in the area of Corfinium ( Corfinio ).
Coins bearing the name Italia were minted by an alliance of Italic tribes ( Sabines, Samnites, Umbrians and others ) competing with Rome in the 1st century BC.
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Lombard invasions, " Italy " or " Italia " gradually became the collective name for diverse sovereign entities appearing on the peninsula.
It is said that the name " Italia " came from this region because of ancient coins that have been found here that date from about the first century BC.
These coins have the name " Italia " on them and are apparently proof of this fact.
This theory of the origin of the name " Italia " is debated by scholars, archaeologists and history itself.
There is much consensus however that the name " Italia " was originally given to the region of modern Calabria by the ancient Greeks during their foundation of Magna Graecia ( Greater Greece ) in southern Italy around the eight century BC.
Centuries later, the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus in his Rhomaike Archaiologia ( Antiquitates romanae, " Roman Antiquities "), quoting Antioch of Syracuse states that Italus was an Oenotrian by birth and retells this account that Italia was named after him, alongside the other account that Italia derives its name from a word for calf, an etymology also stated by Timaeus, Varro ( Rerum Rusticarum, 2. 5 ), and Festus.
* Società Idroelettrica Piemontese, the former name of Telecom Italia
* Italia ( Roman Empire ), the name of the Italian peninsula
* Corso Italia ( disambiguation ), the name of several neighbourhoods
It was renamed Vitellio, the Oscan form of Italia, a name which appears, written in Oscan alphabet, on the coins struck there in 90 BC.
The club was founded on August 26, 1914, as Palestra Italia () but changed to the current name on September 14, 1942.
During the World War II, Brazil entered the war supporting the allies and its dictatorship along with the Brazilian Expeditionary Force ( FEB ) forced Palestra Italia ( and also Palestra Italia of Minas Gerais ) to change its name because of the reference to Italy.
Palestra Italia was compelled to change its name, and became Palestra São Paulo.
With this, the Italian name was removed and the club could no longer call themselves Palestra Italia.
* SKY Italia, the brand name of a digital satellite television and radio service in Italy
The d ' Italia was added to the name of Campione in the 1930s by Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and an ornamental gate to the city was built, both in an attempt to assert the exclave's Italian-ness.
Even Verdi's name was a synonym for Italian unity because " Verdi " could be read as an acronym for Vittorio Emanuele Re d ' Italia, Victor Emanuel King of Italy, the Savoy monarch who eventually became Victor Emanuel II, the first king of united Italy.

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