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21Gaius Norbanus — surnamed Bulbus (or Balbus), Roman politician, was a seditious and turbulent democrat. In 103 BC, when tribune of the people, he accused Quintus Servilius Caepio the Elder of having brought about the defeat of his army by the Cimbri through… …
22Publius Decius Mus (340 BC) — Publius Decius Mus, son of Quintus, of the plebeian Decia, was a Roman consul in the year 340 BC.He first enters history in 352 BC as an appointed official, one of the quinqueviri mensarii, public bankers charged with relieving citizen debts to… …
23Casagiove — Infobox CityIT img coa = official name = Casagiove name = Casagiove region = Campania province = Province of Caserta (CE) elevation m = area total km2 = 6.3 population as of = Dec. 2004 population total = 14810 population density km2 = 2347… …
24Anselm of Canterbury, Saint — born 1033/34, Aosta, Lombardy died April 21, 1109, possibly at Canterbury, Kent, Eng.; feast day April 21 Founder of Scholasticism. Anselm entered the Benedictine monastery at Bec (in Normandy) in 1057 and became abbot in 1078. In 1077 he wrote… …
25Roman road system — outstanding transportation network of the ancient Mediterranean world, extending from Britain to the Tigris Euphrates river system and from the Danube River to Spain and northern Africa. In all, the Romans built 50,000 miles (80,000 km) of… …
26Alemanni — Germanic people who first attacked the upper Rhine and lower Danube (qq.v.) in the third century A.D. Julian defeated them at Strasbourg in 357. After being defeated by Clovis (ca. 495) many settled in Raetia (q.v.). In 507 Theodoric (q.v.)… …
27Narses — General of Justinian I (q.v.) who succeeded Belisarios in Italy (qq.v.) in the war against the Ostrogoths (q.v.). He won a decisive blow against the Ostrogothic king Totila (q.v.) at the battle of Busta Gallorum (q.v.) in 552. In the same year …
28Falernian — /fəˈlɜniən/ (say fuh lerneeuhn) adjective of or relating to a district in Italy near Capua, famous in Roman times for its wine …
29Norman conquest of southern Italy — The Kingdom of Sicily (in green) in 1154, representing the extent of Norman conquest in Italy over several decades of activity by independent adventurers The Norman conquest of southern Italy spanned the late eleventh and much of the twelfth… …
30Italy — /it l ee/, n. a republic in S Europe, comprising a peninsula S of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands: a kingdom 1870 1946. 57,534,088; 116,294 sq. mi. (301,200 sq. km). Cap.: Rome. Italian, Italia. * * * Italy… …
