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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Allied invasion of Sicily
		Sicily (Sicilia in Italian and Sicilian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,708 kmÂ² (9,926 sq.
		The invasion of Sicily was a major Allied amphibious and airborne operation involving American, British, and Canadian forces, tasked with taking the island from the Axis forces (Italy and Nazi Germany).
		Although overshadowed by the Normandy invasion a year later, Operation HUSKY was actually the largest amphibious operation of World War II in terms of the size of the landing zone and the number of divisions put ashore on the first day of the invasion.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Allied-invasion-of-Sicily (6797 words)

	Sicily to see. Accommodation, history, cooking and traditions of Sicily.
		Separated from the southwest tip of the Italian peninsula by the Strait of Messina, Sicily is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Ionian Sea to the east, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the north.
		Sicily passed briefly to the house of Savoy (1713) and then to the Austrian Habsburgs (1720), but in 1734, during the War of the Polish Succession, both Sicily and Naples were conquered by the Spanish Bourbon prince Charles.
		Sicily’s kings and queens are buried in the breathtaking cathedral; on a smaller but no less extravagant scale are the stuccos in the Oratorio di San Domenico, whose altarpiece is by Van Dyck.
	www.arcilebay.com /sicily.htm (1543 words)

	Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sicily (Sicilia in Italian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 sq.
		The Aeolian islands to the north are administratively a part of Sicily, as are the Aegadian Islands and Pantelleria Island to the west, Ustica Island to the north-west, and the Pelagian Islands to the south-west.
		Sicily is well known as a country of art: many poets and writers were born on this island, starting from the Sicilian School in the early 13th century, which inspired much subsequent Italian poetry and created the first Italian standard.
	abcworld.net /Sicily (2316 words)

	Allied invasion of Sicily Information
		The Allied invasion of Sicily began on the night of the July 9-10 July, 1943 and ended August 17 in an Allied victory.
		The invasion of Sicily was a major Allied amphibious and airborne operation involving United Kingom, Canadian and American forces, tasked with taking the Island from the Axis forces represented by Italian and German soldiers.
		However, It could also act as a precursor to the invasion of Italy, although this was not agreed by the Allies at the time of the invasion, the Americans in particular resisting commitment to any operation which might conceivably delay the invasion of France.
	www.bookrags.com /Allied_invasion_of_Sicily (1643 words)

	Sicily - MSN Encarta
		In 1808 Joseph Bonaparte was succeeded by Joachim Murat, king of Naples; after the fall of Murat in 1815, Ferdinand was restored in Naples.
		At the beginning of 1848 Sicily rose in insurrection and forced Ferdinand II to grant a representative constitution to his subjects.
		In 1860, after northern Italy was freed from the rule of Austria, the Italian nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi landed in Sicily with a thousand volunteers and won control of the island.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564985_2/Sicily.html (688 words)

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		Sicily’s ancient history (to be distinguished from its pre-history which goes back even further to when it was attached to Africa) began in the area around Palermo when the Carthaginians landed there in the eight century BC.
		Most of their monuments were however destroyed by the Normans who, arriving in the eleventh century (in the same decade as the invasion of Britain) leveraged the skills of Byzantines and Arabs alike to produce some of the finest works of art and architecture in the world, notably in Palermo, Monreale and Cefalu.
		The Bourbons were finally defeated during the unification with Italy by the thousand troops of Garibaldi in 1860 which led to a wave of prosperity evident in the Liberty style architecture of Palermo.
	www.thinksicily.com /sicily/showpage.asp?n=109 (350 words)

	MtMestas.com - An 88th Infantry Division Blue Devils Research Website-Sicily Campaign
		Thus the decision to invade Sicily represented an uneasy compromise between coalition partners, a compromise that left the commanders in the field with an imperfect understanding of the ultimate purpose of the operation.
		Sicily was also a victory for the logistician and the staff planner.
		Although overshadowed by the Normandy invasion a year later, Operation HUSKY was actually the largest amphibious operation of World War II in terms of the size of the landing zone and the number of divisions put ashore on the first day of the invasion.
	www.mtmestas.com /Military/campaigns/sicily.htm (7507 words)

	YouTube - Sensational Sicily
		Sicily was ruled by the Sunni Aghlabid dynasty in Tunisia and the Shiite Fatimids in Egypt.
		Sicily was ruled as an independent kingdom by relatives of the kings of Aragon until 1409 and then as part of the Crown of Aragon.
		The invasion of Sicily was one of the causes of the July 25 crisis.
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=oUoJUniCUh0 (4112 words)

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		Sicily was of great importance from the point of view of the Roman Church on account of the great amount of ecclesiastical property there, which was divided into two patrimonia (Palermitanum and Syracusarum).
		Sicily is said to be the most conquered island in the world.
		In drawing up the invasion plans, three factors dominated Allied thinking—the island's topography, the location of Axis air bases, and the amount of resistance that could be expected.
	www.lycos.com /info/sicily--islands.html (611 words)

	OPERATION HUSKY, SICILY 1943
		The invasion of Sicily was conceived at the Casablanca Conference, in January 1943.
		Sicily was the first opportunity in World War II for a complete U.S. field army, the 200,000 man U.S. Seventh Army, to fight as a unit.
		Sicily was a training ground for many of the officers and enlisted men who eleven months later landed on the beaches of Normandy, 6 June 1944.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_ww2_ops_battles_1943sicily.php (1529 words)

	Military History Online
		Staging for the invasion was a most complex affair; for example, British and Canadian troops were to come from the United Kingdom, the Middle East and Tunisia, while their American allies came not only from nearby North Africa, but in the case of the 45th Infantry Division, directly from the United States as well.
		In July, Sicily is typically in a boundary zone between a high pressure zone that prevails over the Atlantic Ocean and a low pressure zone that covers the whole of the Eurasian land mass and North Africa.
		The Axis forces committed to defend Sicily included a variety of German and Italian troops, some of whom were stationed on the island on July 10, 1943, and some of whom were shifted to the island as the battles progressed.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/husky/plans.aspx (7287 words)

	Sicily
		A decision to invade Sicily was made at an Allied conference at Casablanca which took place from January 14 to 23, 1943.
		Among the American forces was the 82d Airborne Division, which was scheduled to drop behind the invasion beaches to forestall enemy reaction to the landings.
		For weeks before the invasion, Allied planes raided western Sicily in order to deceive the defenders regarding the Allied intention, which was to make landings on the southern and eastern coasts of the island.
	www.worldwar2history.info /Sicily (465 words)

	Sicily July 10 - August 17, 1943 - World War II Multimedia Database
		In the drops on Sicily, the Americans were especially scattered, but both the Americans and the British caused great confusion among the Germans and accomplished their mission of covering the landings against counterattack.
		The invasion of Sicily prompted the fall of the Mussolini government.
		Sicily revealed many weaknesses of combined operations, but was a needed victory for the Allies.
	www.worldwar2database.com /html/sicily.htm (849 words)

	Juno Beach Centre - The Invasion of Sicily
		The Afrikakorps was caught in a pincer between landing invasion forces advancing from the east and the Eighth Army still marching westwards.
		The invasion of Sicily was the logical conclusion of the North African adventure, since capturing the island meant regaining control of most of the Mediterranean.
		At the end of the day, the 1st Canadian Infantry division had reached its objective and was ready to move on to the third phase of the invasion: the march inland.
	www.junobeach.org /e/2/can-eve-rod-sic-e.htm (2209 words)

	Sicilian History
		During the following 6 years, the 1302 dream re-emerged: from the aristocracy and from the middle class, but also largely from the populace, a modern state, liberal, English style, was taking shape: it went so far that in 1812 a Constitution similar to the English one, was written, foreseeing a bi-cameral congress.
		Sicily and the continental part of the kingdom), creating major problems to Naples with the insurrections of 1821, but the Borbone’s put down the local riots and answered with arms the Palermo’s riots, to which the insurrection extended like a wild fire.
		The rebels had the strength of the arms, but the political weakness that followed, which did not succeed in either balance the budget, or meet the demands of the farmers, the workers and the middle class.
	www.gentracer.com /history.html (1695 words)

	WWII Campaigns: Sicily
		Thus the decision to invade Sicily represented an uneasy compromise between coalition partners, a compromise that left the commanders in the field with an imperfect understanding of the ultimate purpose of the operation.
		By happy coincidence, Sicily's other major ports—Palermo, Catania, Augusta, and Syracuse—are also clustered in the northwestern and southeastern corners of the island, as were the majority of the island's thirty major airfields.
		Sicily was thus an important victory for the Allies, but not a decisive one.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/Brochures/72-16/72-16.htm (7851 words)

	Sicily
		Sicily is an island in the Mediterranean Sea, south-west of Italy.
		It was also argued that a successful invasion would force Adolf Hitler to send troops from the Eastern Front and help to relieve pressure on the Red Army in the Soviet Union.
		Sicily was the first large-scale amphibious operation against enemy-held beaches in the second world war.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWsicily.htm (2140 words)

	Legion Magazine : The Invasion Of Sicily - Part 15
		The decision to attack the island of Sicily was made at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943.
		Assignment to Sicily also meant that the battalion anti-tank platoons finally got their hands on the six-pounder anti-tank gun which was still a scarce commodity two years after its introduction.
		Sicily was the army’s first campaign and most thought it was a great success.
	www.legionmagazine.com /features/canadianmilitaryhistory/97-03.asp (2330 words)

	History of Sicily
		Medieval Sicily: The fall of Rome ushered in the Middle Ages and Byzantium became the capital of the eastern Roman empire.
		In the 9th century the Byzantine Empire gradually began to lose Sicily to the rapidly expanding Muslim Arab empire, and this 'Moorish' influence was to be a lasting one.
		Modern Sicily: In the same year, the arrival of Columbus in America set the stage for the Mediterranean, and therefore Sicily, to play a lesser role in world politics, of which it previously had been a geographic protagonist.
	mobile.bestofsicily.com /mhistory.html (1228 words)

	Italy encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Italy politics and officials, Italy History. Travel to Italy
		The Allied invasion of Sicily began on the night of the July 9-10 July, 1943 and ended August 17 in an Allied victory.
		The invasion of Sicily was a major Allied amphibious and airborne operation involving British, Canadian and American forces, tasked with taking the Island from the Axis forces represented by Italian and German soldiers.
		es:Operación Husky fr:Opération Husky it:Operazione Husky nl:Landing op Sicilië ja:ハスキー作戦 no:Operasjon Husky pl:Operacja Husky scn:Secunna guerra munniali (Opirazzioni Husky) fi:Operaatio Husky sv:Operation Husky
	www.italyiworld.com /wiki-Allied_invasion_of_Sicily (2013 words)

	Liberation: The Second World War in Sicily - Best of Sicily - Sicilian Campaign, War in Sicily 1943.
		With the Axis defeat in North Africa foreseen, the invasion of Sicily was decided upon by Roosevelt and Churchill at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943.
		Even in Sicily, high-ranking clergy sometimes took questionable positions; before the invasion a Sicilian bishop had actually preached against the Americans, though the opportunistic Archbishop Lavitrano of Palermo (whose closeness to Fascism and the House of Savoy did not go unnoticed) was almost as cordial with Patton as he had been with the Fascists.
		Sicily was not Saipan, and few Italians ever fought with the raw courage of the Japanese, even when defending their own country.
	www.bestofsicily.com /ww2.htm (6871 words)

	D-Day: Operation Overlord - Features on thehistorychannel.co.uk
		Having seen the tide of the war turn in North Africa in 1942, and the subsequent invasion of Sicily and mainland Italy in 1943, there was growing pressure on the allies to open up a new front by launching an invasion of north-west Europe.
		The first invasion plans for D-Day were drawn up in July 1943 and called for a single, large-scale, concentrated attack in the Normandy area.
		The most obvious area for the D-Day invasion was clearly the Pas de Calais and the allies did everything they could to convince the Nazis that it was in Calais that the real invasion would strike.
	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/features/d-day.php (2514 words)

	Historic Timeline of Sicily
		In Sicily the Fatimids, Aghlabids and Khalids were major dynasties and capital was Palermo.
		Angevins - So-called 'Angevins' in Sicily were various French vassals and administrators placed in Sicily by Anjou dynasty ruling from Naples; ousted by conspiracy of Sicily's resentful Norman-Swabian nobility through popular uprising, Sicilian Vespers (1282).
		Albanians - Sicily's Arbresh were descended from ancient Ilyrians and Romans, arrived in Sicily as refugees around 1500 due to Ottoman invasion of Balkans and established several towns.
	mobile.bestofsicily.com /mtimeline.html (972 words)

	Invasion of Sicily
		Invasion of Sicily by Frank Krall RM 459
		The captain passed the word that we are on our way for the invasion of Sicily.
		It is with deep pleasure that the squadron commander wishes to express his gratification for the fine aggressive spirit exhibited by all ships of this squadron during the recent attack on Sicily.
	www.ussshubrick.com /sicily.htm (5919 words)

	1. The Norman Kingdom in South Italy and Sicily. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The Norman count Roger II of Sicily succeeded the Norman duke William of Apulia (1111–27) and assumed the title of king of Sicily, Apulia, and Capua with the approval of the antipope Anacletus II.
		By skillful diplomacy he prevented a joint invasion of Sicily by the Greek and Roman emperors.
		The Norman kingship in southern Italy and Sicily was theocratic, on Byzantine lines; the administration was an efficient, departmentalized bureaucracy.
	www.bartelby.com /67/471.html (377 words)

	History: D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy
		The invasion also involved a long-range deception plan on a scale the world had never before seen and the clandestine operations of tens of thousands of Allied resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied countries of western Europe.
		As time for the invasion neared, the German's focus of the deception had shifted from the regions of the Balkans and Norway to the Pas de Calais.
		Also, German intelligence thought that the Allies had 90 divisions ready for the invasion (really only 39), so that even after the invasion of Normandy, the belief could still exist that Normandy was just a preliminary measure and the main invasion of the Pas de Calais was still to come.
	www.cyberessays.com /History/124.htm (1153 words)

	CBC Super Store: Marvel Books: The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
		Along their treacherous and sometimes heartbreaking journey, the bears encounter an army of wild boars, a wily professor who may or may not be a magician, ghosts, snarling Marmoset the Cat, and, worst of all, treachery within their own ranks.
		If the bears' famous invasion of sicily sounds too distressing to read alone, that's because it is. Lemony Snicket's introduction to this extraordinary tale is unlikely to make you feel any better, and a careful study of Snicket's Reader's Companion, cleverly hidden at the back, may actually make you feel worse.
		Along their jouney, the bears encounter an army of wild boars, a wily professor who may or may not be a magician, ghosts, snarling Marmoset the Cat, and, worst of all, treachery within their own ranks.
	www.comicbookconventions.com /amazonstore/shop.php?c=marvelbooks&n=912630&i=0060726083&x=The_Bears_Famous_Invasion_of_Sicily (941 words)

	World War II: Allied Invasion of Sicily and "The Man Who Never Was" - █ further reading:
		From their position in North Africa, with the aid of their fleet in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, the next logical targets for the Allies were German defenses on the Italian island of Sicily.
		As the German command expected the Allies to attack Sicily, Allied intelligence was charged with devising a plan to feed misinformation to the Germans, causing them to believe that Allied forces were massing to invade Europe via Greece or the Balkans.
		On May 12, 1943, the Germans moved thousands of troops, airplanes, and weaponry from Sicily to fortify defenses in Sardinia and Greece, where they presumed Allied forces were going to invade.
	www.espionageinfo.com /Vo-Z/World-War-II-Allied-Invasion-of-Sicily-and-The-Man-Who-Never-Was.html (796 words)

	The Taste of War: 07. THE INVASION OF SICILY
		No sounds of bombs or firing at the moment, a faint noise that might be artillery in the distance, but you cannot always hear well for noise of lorries being loaded and banging their way into and out of the Port area.
		Patton had been blocked by the Commander of the Invasion, British General Alexander, shortly after the Americans had broken out of their beachhead, at which moment they could have employed a good road to the Northeast; there was one that turned upon Vizzini, a picturesque hill town (and setting for the opera of Cavaleria Rusticana).
		She writes calmly about life on the eve of the invasion, on the problems of women, about attitudes toward war, and she helps fill the paper and gives it a little class, as they say, and a sense of warmth.
	www.grazian-archive.com /autobiography/taste_of_war/TOWAR_07.htm (7875 words)

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