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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Their boundaries are a line drawn from the mouth of the Crati River to the Scalone Pass and the coasts of the Tyrrhenian and of the Ionian Seas.
The principal rivers of Southern Italy are: the Volturno (115 miles) which rises at Capo d'Acqua, on Mt. Rocchetta, with a considerable volume of water, receives the Vandra that flows from the plain of Carovilli, increased by the waters of the Cavaliere, on the banks of which stands Isernia.
The boundaries of Abruzzi and Molise are the Tronto River, the Adriatic Sea, the Fortore River, and an irregular line towards the Apennines.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08208a.htm   (18143 words)

  
 Italian unification - tScholars.com
Meanwhile Naples had been declared in a state of siege, and on September 6 the king gathered the 4,000 troops still faithful to him and retreated over the Volturno river.
Garibaldi's irregular bands of about 25,000 men could not drive away the king or take the fortresses of Capua and Gaeta without the help of the Sardinian army.
The progress of the Sardinian army compelled Francis to give up his line along the river, and he eventually took refuge with his best troops in the fortress of Gaeta.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Risorgimento   (5311 words)

  
 Italian Visits - All about Italy - The Appenine Mountains
to Castelammare Adriatico via Avezzano and Sulmona: the railway from Orte to Terni (and thence to Foligno) follows the Nera valley; while from Terni a line ascends to the plain of Rieti, and thence crosses the central chain to Aquila, whence it follows the valley of the Aterno to Sulmona.
Liris)} with its tributary the Sacco (Trerus), the Volturno (Volturnus), Sebeto (Sabatus), Sarno (Sarnus), on the north the Trigno (Trinius), Biferno (Tifernus), and Fortore (Frento).
The railway running south from Sicignano to Lagonegro, ascending the valley of the Negro, is planned to extend to Cosenza, along the line followed by the ancient Via Popilia, which beyond Cosenza reached the west coast at Terina and thence followed it to Reggio.
www.italianvisits.com /places/appenines   (2317 words)

  
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Fifth Army at the Winter Line [5 Nov 43 - 15 Jan 44] / manuscript by Fifth Army Historical Section.
From the Volturno to the Winter Line [ 6 Oct 43 - 15 Nov 43] / manuscript by Fifth Army Historical Section.
Lines of Battle : Letters from American Servicemen, 1941-1945 / by Annette Tapert.
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 1913 in History
October 7 Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line
October 10 British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill)
December 1 Continuous moving assembly line introduced by Ford (car every 2:38)
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 Dewey Subject Search
940 - Air Service Boys Over the Enemy's Lines
940 - Fifth Army at the Winter Line, 15 November 1943 - 15 January 1944
940 - From the Volturno to the Winter Line, 6 October - 15 November 1943
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