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Lipari (Italian: [ˈliːpari]; Sicilian: Lìpari) is a comune including six of seven islands of the Aeolian Islands (Lipari, Vulcano, Panarea, Stromboli, Filicudi and Alicudi) and it is located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the northern coast of Sicily, Southern Italy; it is administratively part of the Metropolitan City of Messina.
The Aeolian Islands (/ iː ˈ oʊ l i ən / ee-OH-lee-ən; Italian: Isole Eolie [ˈiːzole eˈɔːlje]; Sicilian: Ìsuli Eoli), sometimes referred to as the Lipari Islands or Lipari group (/ ˈ l ɪ p ə r i / LIP-ə-ree, Italian:) after their largest island, are a volcanic archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily, said to be named after Aeolus, the mythical ruler of the winds. [1]
Liparus (mythology) In Greek mythology, Liparus ( Ancient Greek Λίπαρος Líparos) is an Ausonian king and founder of the city of Lipari on the island of the same name. According to Diodorus Siculus, he was the son of Auson. Driven out of Italy by his brothers, he fled to the island of Lipari, and founded the city of Lipari, named after ...
Sicilians. The Sicilians (Sicilian: Siciliani), or Sicilian people, are a Romance -speaking European ethnic group who are indigenous to the island of Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the largest and most populous of the autonomous regions of Italy.
Sicily (Italian: Sicilia, pronounced [siˈtʃiːlja] ⓘ; Sicilian: Sicilia, pronounced [sɪˈ(t)ʃiːlja] ⓘ, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
September 2004 Stromboli eruption. Stromboli (/ ˈstrɒmbəli / STROM-bə-lee, Italian: [ˈstromboli]; Sicilian: Struògnuli [ˈʂː (ɽ)wɔɲɲʊlɪ]) is an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, containing Mount Stromboli, one of the four active volcanoes in Italy. It is one of the seven Aeolian Islands, a volcanic arc ...
Lipari Cathedral (Italian: Basilica concattedrale di San Bartolomeo di Lipari; Duomo di Lipari) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Lipari in the Province of Messina, Sicily, dedicated to Saint Bartholomew. Formerly the episcopal seat of the diocese of Lipari, it has been since 1986 a co-cathedral in the Archdiocese of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia ...
The sack of Lipari took place in 1544 when Hayreddin Barbarossa sacked the island and took care of all or almost all of the islands inhabitants. [3] Hayreddin Barbarossa had just captured Ischia and took care of 4,000 inhabitants. [4] He moved towards Lipari in the Kingdom of Naples where the viceroy, Pedro de Toledo, was warned of his movements.