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	Taranto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is the capital of Province of Taranto and is an important military and commercial port.
		Archytas of Tarentum, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, statesman, strategist and commander-in-chief of the army of Taranto;
		Gil Cardinal Albornoz, archibishop of Taranto in 1644;
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taranto (627 words)

	Taranto - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 466 BC, Taranto was defeated by Iapyges, a native population of ancient Apulia, and the monarchy fell, with the inauguration of a democracy, and the expulsion of the Pythagoreans.
		Taranto was finally conquered by the Normans: the sons of Petron elected the first Norman archbishop, Drogo, in 1071, and prepared a fleet to conquer Durazzo.
		The principality of Taranto, during its 377 years of history, was sometimes a powerful and almost independent feudal fief of the Kingdom of Sicily (and later of Naples), sometimes only a title, often given to the heir to the crown or to the husband of a reigning queen.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Taranto (4302 words)

	Taranto \| Topic Definition \| Find the Meaning and Define the Answer of Taranto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Taranto was definitely conquered by the Normans: the sons of Petrone elect the first Norman archbishop, Drogo, in 1071, and prepared a fleet to conquer Durazzo.
		Taranto became the capital of a Norman principality, whose first ruler was Robert Guiscard's son, Bohemond of Taranto.
		The principality of Taranto, during its 377 years of history, was sometimes a powerful and almost independent feud of the Kingdom of Sicily (and later of Naples), sometimes only a title, often given to the heir to the crown.
	www.thefreeencyclopedia.com /definition/word.aspx?w=Taranto (3270 words)

	Taranto
		Diocese in southern Italy, on a bay in the Gulf of Taranto.
		It was retaken by the Byzantines, who were forced to cede it to Otto II in 982; in 1080 it fell into the hands of Robert Guiscard, who made it the capital of the Principality of Taranto, and gave it to Boemund, his son.
		Taranto is the birthplace of the musician Paisiello.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/taranto.html (728 words)

	Taranto - Puglia - Italy
		Taranto is a coastal city in Apulia, the capital of the province of the same name and an important military and commercial port.
		Taranto was founded in 708 BC by Spartan immigrants, who called the city Taras, from the name of the mythical hero Taras, shown in the emblem riding a dolphin.
		Taranto was finally conquered by the Normans and became the capital of a Norman principality, whose first ruler was Robert Guiscard's son, Bohemond of Taranto.
	www.italyworldclub.com /puglia/taranto/taranto.htm (1344 words)

	History of Taranto
		Taranto was founded as a Greek colony in the VIII century B.C. by the Spartans.
		In 540, Taranto became part of Byzantine Empire until the arrival of the Longobards with the Duchy of Benevento who captured the city in 662 to be again under the Byzantine rule in 663.
		With the Norman victory, Taranto became a principality and for 377 years it was a powerful and almost independent feudal fief of the Kingdom of Sicily and later the Kingdom of Naples where the city was strongly fortified.
	www.italytravelescape.com /history-of-taranto.htm (578 words)

	TARANTO. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Taranto is, after La Spezia, the chief military port of Italy, and it is also an agricultural, industrial, and fishing center.
		As a part of the kingdom of Naples the city was strongly fortified and was held as a principality by various lords.
		Of note in Taranto are the cathedral (11th–12th cent., with a baroque facade), a castle (originally Byzantine, rebuilt in 1480), and the national museum (with a fine collection of Greek pottery).
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ta/Taranto.html (171 words)

	Main regions of Italy including Tuscany, Veneto, Campania, Piedmont, Lombardi and Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The glorious history of Taranto was at an end: she was reduced to the level of a modest fishing town.
		In 967 the by then Byzantine Taranto was rebuilt by the Emperor of Constantinople, Niceforus Focas, on a plan which is still evident in the old town, especially at the levels closer to the sea, where the intention was to speed up the activity of the port.
		Situated on the slopes of the Sierra of Belvedere, sweeping down towards Taranto, the Mar Piccolo (internal lagoon) and the coast, San Giorgio lonico is the largest of a group of towns populated around the XV century by Albanian refugees.
	www.discoveritaly.net /regions/city.asp?CITY_ID=10 (5522 words)

	Principality of Achaea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Principality of Achaea was one of the three vassal states of the Latin Empire which replaced the Byzantine Empire after the capture of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.
		The capital of the principality was originally at Andravida.
		The Byzantine pronoia system was also adapted to fit Western feudalism; peasants (paroikoi) technically owned their land, but military duties and taxes that they had not been subject to under the pronoia system were imposed on them by their new French lords.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/p/pr/principality_of_achaea.html (566 words)

	Facts about taranto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Taranto was founded in about 708 BC by Spartan immigrants, and became a sovereign city of Magna Graecia, the Greek colonies in Southern Italy.
		At that time, Taranto had the most powerful naval forces in Italy, and hastened to come to an agreement with Rome which stated that the Lacinio promontory and the Gulf of Taranto should not be passed by Roman ships.
		Taranto, however, thought that this was a hostile act, and responded by sinking the fleet and expelling the roman troops from Thurii.
	www.supercrawler.com /Facts/taranto.html (595 words)

	Principality of Achaea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was surrounded by Epirus as as territory held by Venice in the Aegean Sea but it was fairly wealthy and the Latin Empire against the exiled Byzantine emperors of the Empire of Nicaea.
		The Byzantine pronoia system was also adapted to fit feudalism; peasants (paroikoi) technically owned their land but military and taxes that they had not been to under the pronoia system were imposed them by their new French lords.
		In 1311 the Duchy of Athens was taken by the Catalan Company whose actions helped to destablize Achaean Achaea came under the control of Italian nobles who held on to the smaller territory for another century before it conquered by Thomas Palaeology the Byzantine despot Morea in 1432.
	www.freeglossary.com /Principality_of_Achaea (805 words)

	Principality of Antioch - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bohemund was already prince (allodial lord) of Taranto in Italy, and he desired to continue such independence in his new lordship; thus he did not attempt to receive the title of Duke from his Byzantine enemy, nor any other title with deep feudal obligations, such as count.
		The empty title of "Prince of Antioch" passed, with the extinction of the Counts of Tripoli, to the Kings of Cyprus, and was sometimes granted as a dignity to junior members of the royal house.
		Most of the crusaders who settled there, were of Norman origin and/or from southern Italy, as were the first rulers of the principality who surrounded themselves with their own loyals.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Prince_of_Antioch (1522 words)

	Sito Ufficiale della Provincia di Taranto - Coat of arms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The coat of arms of the province of Taranto is represented by a scorpion that holds a crown, of the Ionian Principality, in its five tips chelas; on its back there are three lilies painted.
		He told this to the people of Taranto suggesting the symbol of the coat of arms; it also had a psychological meaning: allied countries and enemies have would known that Taranto was become as dangerous as a scorpion.
		Taranto had always had, over all its existence, the political dimension of a State based on the city, and now it was ready to become a city based on the province.
	www.provincia.ta.it /english/coat_of_arms.php (1118 words)

	Raimondo del Balzo Orsini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was Count of Soleto (1382), Duke of Benevento (1385-1401), Prince of Taranto (1393-1406), Count of Lecce (1401-06), Duke of Bari, Grand Constable of the Kingdom of Naples, Gonfaloner of the Holy Roman Church (1385, confirmed in 1399 together with the principality of Taranto).
		Raimondello was the second son of Nicola Orsini di Nola (1331-1399), 3rd Count of Nola, grand Justiciar and also Grand Chancellor of Kingdom of Naples, and his second wife Maria del Balzo (of counts of Soleto).
		The principality of Taranto included half of the Kingdom of Naples, and the Prince ruled almost independently from the king.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Raimondo_del_Balzo_Orsini (456 words)

	Principality of Antioch - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Principality of Antioch was one of the states created during the First Crusade.
		Bohemund II's reign lasted a short four years, and the Principality was inherited by his young daughter Constance; Baldwin II acted as regent again until his death in 1131, when Fulk of Jerusalem took power.
		Much of the eastern part of the Principality was lost, and Raymond was killed in battle in 1149.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Principality_of_Antioch (1395 words)

	The Hautevilles set off on the crusades (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He resumed his struggle, but was caught in a stranglehold by the Turks and the Arabs on one side and the Byzantines on the other, he entrusted the regency to Tancred and returned to Italy to raise new troops.
		His objective was to attack Byzantium from the west, hoping to gain autonomy for his principality and equally to conquer the Empire.
		Despite the help of the king of France, Bohemond failed and in 1108, with the Durrazo treaty he was forced to repeat his oath of vassalage to the basileus for his possessions in the East — real and future — and to promise to do nothing against the Greek Empire.
	www.mondes-normands.caen.fr /angleterre/histoires/medit/6/medit6_2.htm (349 words)

	Taranto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The expansion of Taranto was limited to the coast because of the resistance of the populations of inner Apulia.
		In 432 BC, after several years of war, Taranto signed a peace treaty with the Greek colony of Thurii; both cities contributed to the foundation of the colony of Heraclea, which rapidly fell under Taranto's control.
		In March 1502, the Spanish fleet of king Ferdinand II of Aragon, allied to Louis XII of France, seized the port and conquered Taranto.
	www.abitabouteverything.com /files/t/ta/taranto.html (4632 words)

	Upto11.net - Album Profile for Taranto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Because of the presence of these two bays, Taranto is also called and#8220;the city of the two seasand#8221;.
		1801-15 andndash; After the defeat of Ferdinand IV of Naples at Monteregio and the subsequent Peace of Florence, the French general Nicolas Soult occupied with 13,000 soldiers the provinces of Bari, Lecce and the harbour of Taranto.
		Among the French officers in Taranto, there is also the novelist Chordelos de Laclos, artilliery general and fortification expert, who died in Taranto on 5 September 1803.
	www.upto11.net /albumprofile.php?al=223560 (4213 words)

	Taranto (town)
		Taranto was taken by the Normans in 1063, and became a feudal principality subject to the Kingdom of Naples.
		It was the main base of the Italian fleet during World War II until an attack by a British torpedo bomber in December 1940 severely damaged several vessels, including three battleships.
		The fleet was relocated to bases on the west coast where they were less vulnerable to such attacks, but much of the Italian navy had been caught and destroyed at Taranto.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0012954.html (391 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Principality of Antioch was created with the fall of that city, in 1098, during the First Crusade.
		Bohemond of Taranto, who became Bohemond I of Antioch, was one of the leaders of the original Crusader expedition to the Holy Land.
		At last the Norman principality of Antioch, despite its 400 Byzantine towers, was defeated, its violent death echoing its violent birth 170 years earlier.
	www.the-orb.net /textbooks/crusade/antioch.html (2650 words)

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		Henceforth, the Principality of Antioch was to be a vassal of Byzantium until Manuel's death in 1180.
		Although this arrangement meant that the Principality had to provide a contingent for the Byzantine Army (troops from Antioch participated in an attack on the Seljuk Turks in 1176), it also safeguarded the City against Nur ad-Din at a time when it was in serious danger of being overun.
		Most of the crusaders who settled there were of Norman origin and/or from southern Italy, as were the first rulers of the principality who surrounded themselves with their own loyal subjects.
	www.bjvifa.com /reference/Principality_of_Antioch (1594 words)

	Joan I of Naples - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The assassination of Andrew brought about the enmity of Hungary and an invasion led by Louis I. Her second husband, Louis of Taranto, was crowned as co-king in 1353, the only one of her husbands to whom she willingly accorded that status.
		In 1373, her cousin and former brother-in-law Philip II of Taranto resigned to her his rights to the Principality of Achaea.
		James of Baux, the nephew of Philip II of Taranto, claimed the Principality of Achaea after her deposition in 1381.
	joaniofnaples.quickseek.com (570 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Taranto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		BC, Taranto was a town of Magna Graecia and was powerful enough to resist the Romans until 272 BC It was destroyed (927) by the Arabs but was later rebuilt by the Byzantines.
		Of note in Taranto are the cathedral (11th-12th cent., with a baroque facade), a castle (originally Byzantine, rebuilt in 1480), and the national museum (with a fine collection of Greek pottery).
		Italy's largest steelmaker, ILVA S.p.A. chose Voest-Alpine Impianti to modernize the two-strand slab caster at the Taranto Works.(Contracts in the News)(Brief Article)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Taranto.asp (285 words)

	Articles - Tancred, Prince of Galilee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tancred (1072 - 1112) was a leader of the First Crusade, and later became regent of the Principality of Antioch and Prince of Galilee.
		In 1100 Tancred became regent of Antioch when Bohemund was taken prisoner by the Danishmends.
		In 1104 he also took control of the County of Edessa when Baldwin II was taken captive after the Battle of Harran.
	www.quickize.com /articles/Tancred,_Prince_of_Galilee (485 words)

	Vini Pichierri Sava Taranto Italy
		Throughout the ages, after being part of the Principality of Taranto, Sava went through several feudatories among whom the Jesuits.
		It is also extremely interesting to visit the Sanctuary of the most Holy Virgin Mary of Pasano built in 1700, the Church of St. Francis (constructed in 1800) and the Greeks Limitone (a dry stone construction of the VII-VIII century placed in Cemarda quarter).
		Sava is on the state route 7ter Taranto-Lecce, exactly 24 km far away from Taranto and 60 from Lecce.
	www.vinipichierri.com /stataleing.htm (304 words)

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		succeeded to the empire, while to his illegitimate son Manfred he left the principality of Taranto Manfred.
		Louis of Taranto and Joanna were crowned at Naples by the pope's legate in 1352, but Niccolo Acciaiuoli, the seneschal, became the real master of the kingdom.
		In 1374 Joanna made peace with Frederick of Sicily, recognizing him as king of Trinacria on condition that he paid her tribute and recognized the pope's suzerainty.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=47425 (8969 words)

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