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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Elba
In the tenth century Elba came into the power of Pisa, from which it was wrested in 1290 by the city of Genoa.
In 1399 Gian Galeazzo Visconti gave the island and the principality of Piombino to Gherardo Appiano in exchange for the lordship of Pisa.
The Emperor Charles V gave a part of Elba to the Grand Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany, who built the citadel of Cosmopoli and thus laid the foundation of the later Porto Ferrajo, the chief town of the island; another district including Porta Longone came into the power of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05371c.htm   (580 words)

  
  Elba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elba (Latin "Ilva") is an island in Tuscany, Italy, 20 km from the coastal town of Grosseto (42°44′N 10°22′E).
Elba and other islands of the Tuscan Archipelago are protected in the National Park of the Tuscan Archipelago.
Elba World is a site with a big session about general history, geology, characteristics and itineraries for the island, with a photographic gallery.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elba   (244 words)

  
 Elba, Alabama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elba is located in the heart of the Pea River basin, at the juncture of Whitewater Creek and Pea River.
Elba had its economic beginning when a ferry was established to cross Pea River in the early 1830’s by a Mr.
A minster was appointed to the Elba Circuit on December 15, 1853.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elba,_Alabama   (2574 words)

  
 Elba on line - History
Elba was a small land at which the ancient seafaring people aimed.
During the French Revolution 4000 French royalists fled to Elba under England protection and the island was added to the properties of His Majesty the King of England in 1796.
After Napoleon’s departure and his defeat, Elba was annexed to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in 1815 and it became part of the newly born Italy by plebiscite in 1860.
elba-on-line.com /Informazioni/storiaeng.html   (1461 words)

  
 The Elba Island - Tuscany Archipelago   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Elba was an inexhaustible mine for Etruscan people who exploited the mines and exported the iron all over the Mediterranean sea.
The Romans appreciated Elba for its iron but also for the mud baths as testifies one of the two rich patrician villas, of which ruins are in the nearby of the present termal structure.
Elba is a real surprise for guests both in spring and in autumn when it displays its profound essence.
www.vacanzeinversilia.com /arcipelago/en/elba.html   (444 words)

  
 Elba
The island of Elba has had a human population since the Paleolithic and Neanderthal eras.
Elba is best known as the island to which Napoleon was exiled in 1814.
During his brief reign in Elba, Napoleon improved the roads, attended to taxes, fisheries, hospitals, defense, and agriculture.
www.sweptawaytravels.com /Elba.htm   (327 words)

  
 Elba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Elba is an island in Tuscany, Italy, 20 km from the coastal town of Grosseto.
Elba and other islands of the Tuscan Archipelago are protected in the.
Napoleon eventually escaped Elba and returned to France on February 26, 1815.
www.selma.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Elba   (221 words)

  
 East London Business Alliance
ELBA facilitates companies in their community involvement programmes helping bring the time, skills and expertise of their employees to work with partners in the public, community and voluntary sectors in tackling key issues locally.
ELBA acts as a broker for employee volunteering and runs a range of schemes that are both flexible and accessible to employees and companies.
ELBA facilitates and arranges “insight” tours for company members, enabling them to meet key partners in the voluntary sector and to understand what practical action they could undertake.
www.elba-1.org.uk   (216 words)

  
 CLIA - Cruise Line International Association
Over the years, Elba has come to embrace him as a sort of prodigal son, with museums and galleries erected in his honor.
Portoferraio is Elba's main port town, and the place where most visitors spend the majority of their time.
This is unfortunate, because many of Elba's premier attractions are elsewhere, particularly on the northern side of the island.
www.cruising.org /planyourcruise/wwdest/overview.cfm?recordID=152   (276 words)

  
 Elba Florist | Flower Delivery Elba, Nebraska (NE) | Florists in Elba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The population of Elba is approximately 196 (1990).
Elba is positioned 41.28 degrees north of the equator and 98.56 degrees west of the prime meridian.
Elba was named for the "elbow bend" in the tracks where the town began to arise.
www.albanywebsites.com /ex/asp/city.Elba-Nebraska-Florist-NE/CityId.19208/xe/florists-flower-delivery.htm   (209 words)

  
 SacObserver.com [SOUL] Elba Making His Mark In HBO's 'The Wire'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Elba, who was born and raised in London, seems to enjoy his newfound American celebrity.
Elba says the unique character and the growth of his role was what really attracted him to the part.
Elba will also make his big screen debut in the HBO original film, "Sometimes in April." The show is slated to run early next year.
www.sacobserver.com /soul/120904/idris_elba_wire.shtml   (847 words)

  
 Elba
Elba is located in Coffee County in the Southeast corner of Alabama, just 90 miles south of Montgomery, the State Capital and 90 miles north of the white sand beaches of Florida’s Gulf Coast.
The Elba Country Club is a privately owned facility with a challenging 9 hole golf course, a large swimming pool, tennis courts, a club house and a well maintained eight acre fishing lake.
The Elba General Hospital and Nursing Home is a non-profit city government owned facility governed by the HealthCare Authority of Elba, Alabama, Inc. The hospital is a 25 bed acute care facility with a full range of health care ancillary departments.
www.alabamaadvantage.com /elba.html   (472 words)

  
 Elba New York - Official Web Site
Elba is a charming community in Genesee County in which neighborliness, hard work, and community pride flourish.
Rich in history and agriculture, Elba is home to two of the nation's top 100 farms as well as one of America's most highly praised “community-supported agriculture” organic farms.
Our 2500 acres of rich muckland soil yield a bounty of crops, most notably onions, earning Elba the title of “Onion Capital of the World.” The Onion Festival held over the first weekend of every August is the social event of the year.
www.elbanewyork.com   (220 words)

  
 NAUTICALweb - Boat charter in Tuscany
Elba island is the natural center of the archipelago both for its geographical size and its position.
Elba island develops 147 kilometers of seacoasts and an area of 224 square kilometers.
The principal and most important of them is Portoferraio with a seaport enclosed by a breakwater and, to the west, by three piers mainly dedicated to the commercial activity.
www.nautica.it /charter/toscanae.htm   (1776 words)

  
 Isola d'Elba - la guida delle vacanze all'Elba by info elba
Elba, the pearl of the Tuscan Archipelago, the island without frontier: the sea, the beaches, the green of the countryside, the small fortress towns, archaeological treasures, chestnut woods and more, continue to exist for what seems like an eternity.
Elba gives the sensation of so much in so little as in the small spaces of the island we travel over tourist attractions and natural landscapes of such contrast; areas dried out by sun and wind, others green with life, sandy or pebble stone beaches, rocky coastlines and cliffs.
The Island of Elba has about 8.126 beds in first-class hotels, 10.000 places in campings and tourist villages, 2.340 beds in residences and offers the best services and professional people to give you a wonderful holiday and pleasant meeting-places.
www.infoelba.com /index.asp?Lingua=EN   (250 words)

  
 Isola d'Elba - cultura: musei, storia, luoghi storici
Portoferraio is the capital and largest port of the island of Elba with a population of circa 11500.
Historical keepsakes and precious church plate and vestments are preserved in the Church of the SS Sacramento.
To the left of the entrance is a votive shrine dedicated to the men of Elba who lost their lives in the 1915-18 war, executed on the design of Arch.
www.elba-italy.it /cultura/musei_asp/maincat-cultura/catsub-musei   (849 words)

  
 Elba: Travel to Island Elba in the Tuscany, Italy with fitforeurope.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Elba is a Tuscany island located about 100 miles off the italian coas in the mediterranen sea.
If you are planning to visit Elba you should also think about booking your cruise qith a ship as moste of the ships are fully booked early in the year.
Elbas coastal line is more touristic than the inner side of the country.
www.fitforeurope.com /italy/elba   (138 words)

  
 Elba family holidays
Elba, 10km from the Tuscan coast and the third largest Italian island after Sicily and Sardinia – is an unusual but delightful choice for a family holiday.
For starters, it’s Italian with all that means – Iocal mammas cooing at your baby in its buggy, a general acceptance and love of children plus fantastic child-friendly food – this is the land of pizza, pasta, olives, breadsticks and ice cream.
Elba also boasts some lovely family-friendly hotels, beautifully clear water, fine white sand beaches and a lush wooded interior that’s perfect for walking and cycling.
www.takethefamily.com /where/elba.php   (477 words)

  
 Hotels in Tuscany - Elba Island : Hotel Ilio
The hotel is set in the midst of a magnificent green landscape, the ideal place for a relaxing holiday where the sea is "really" just outside your door: three hundred paces through the countryside will take you to the beach, two hundred to the cliffs.
The Tuscan Archipelago National Park covers the northwest point of the Island of Elba, which is the most beautiful and best conserved area of the entire island - ideal for snorkeling, diving and kayaking.
This is how the first "all-nature" hotel on the Island of Elba intends to be of service to both its guests and nature.
www.hotelilio.com /uk   (397 words)

  
 Elba Florist | Flower Delivery Elba, Alabama (AL) | Florists in Elba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The population of Elba is approximately 4,011 (1990).
The distance from Elba to Washington DC is 738 miles.
Elba is positioned 31.41 degrees north of the equator and 86.07 degrees west of the prime meridian.
www.albanywebsites.com /ex/asp/city.Elba-Alabama-Florist-AL/CityId.4637/xe/florists-flower-delivery.htm   (167 words)

  
 Winona Area News-Elba, Minnesota-- A trout fisherman's dream
Indeed, surrounded by 28,000 acres of land dedicated to wildlife management, Elba is well-known for seasonal activities such as turkey and deer hunting, trout fishing, camping, horseback riding, innertubing, canoeing, kayaking, cross country skiing and snowmobiling.
Elba is where the north, south and middle branches of the spring-fed Whitewater River converge.
Elba is also the host of the annual Minnesota Morel Mushroom Festival, which was held May 11.
www.winonapost.com /archive/www/090402/1news.html   (1068 words)

  
 APT - Agenzia per il Turismo dell'Arcipelago Toscano - sito ufficiale
The Island of Elba, in the middle of the Tyrrhenian Sea, surrounded by a deep blue sea, and by the magic transparencies of ancient times.
Visiting the Island of Elba means to discover the coast made of long sandy beaches, small inlets and beautiful cliffs.
To visit the island of Elba means to immerse oneself in a timeless, unique and incomparable world, in which dreams and reality are in a blended in a natural way.
www.arcipelago.turismo.toscana.it /en   (135 words)

  
 elba
The same year, Elba was selected to be the county seat of Coffee County by a countywide election.
The Elba City Schools are accredited by both the Alabama State Department of Education and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Elba is within daily driving distance of Enterprise State Junior College (16 miles) and the main campus of Troy State University (30 miles).
www.alaweb.com /~elbaed/ehs/elba.htm   (988 words)

  
 Learn Italian on Elba. Italian courses on Elba.
The unspoilt island of Elba is the perfect choice for students who wish to combine a high-quality Italian course in Italy with a stunningly beautiful island location.
In addition to the course, students are offered an optional Italian cultural programme, including a welcome dinner, talks on Elba's archaeology and history, boat trips to Piemonte, visits to the 'Napoleon Villa', to local markets, guided walks in the countryside and a farewell dinner.
Elba is largely unspoilt by modern development, a wonderful island to explore
www.languagesabroad.co.uk /elba.html   (316 words)

  
 Elba island - all on the island Elba - Virtual Elba .it island
The island, located in the middle of the Tuscan Archipelago Marine Park, is 27 km long, 18 km wide and has a perimeter of 147 km, along which there are more than 70 beaches described in more detail later on.
In the course of history the island has experienced many events, each of which has left its sign and monuments to visit, several of which are quite beautiful.
The island of Elba can be reached by just an hour-long ferry ride from Piombino; it offers a territory rich with both sea and mountain panoramas.
www.virtualelba.it /english   (225 words)

  
 Elba Island - The Geography of the island Elba
Elba is the largest island in the Tuscan Archipelago, the third largest in Italy and the nearest to continental Europe.
Elba offers modern and well - equipped structures, there can also be found swimming pools, golf courts, sport facilities, riding stables, all kind of rentals, trekking a.s.o.
Elba is small, but not too small to be well organised for all your holiday needs.
www.elba-online.com /Informazioni/infoeng/elbaeng.html   (215 words)

  
 Learn Italian in Elba, Italian course in Italy, language school in Elba
Elba is a stunningly beautiful island, with sandy beaches and crystal clear water.
Elba really has something for everyone, whether you want to water ski, scuba dive, sunbathe at the beach, explore the history and culture of the island, or just choose a peaceful spot to relax, unwind and take in the beautiful scenery.
Elba offers plenty of options for activities after class, and the school organises a welcome dinner, excursions, boat trips, guided walks, visits to local markets and to the Napoleonic museum, plus a variety of watersports.
www.applelanguages.com /en/learn/italian/italy/elba.php   (533 words)

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