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  2. 1693 Sicily earthquake - Wikipedia

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    Ragusa was partly rebuilt on its old site to the medieval plan (Ragusa Ibla) and partly on a new, but neighbouring site, to a 'modern' plan (Ragusa Superiore). [10] The degree and extent of the damage caused by the earthquake prompted an architectural revival in the towns of Sicily and Malta, a style that has become known as Sicilian Baroque. [22]

  3. 1667 Dubrovnik earthquake - Wikipedia

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    The 1667 Dubrovnik earthquake was one of the three most devastating earthquakes to hit what is now modern Croatia in the last 2,400 years, since records began. The entire city was almost destroyed and around 3,000 [ 2 ] to 5,000 people were killed. [ 3 ]

  4. Republic of Ragusa - Wikipedia

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    The Republic of Ragusa [a] was an aristocratic maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik (Ragusa in Italian and Latin; Raguxa in Venetian) in South Dalmatia (today in southernmost Croatia) that carried that name from 1358 until 1808.

  5. Chiesa del Purgatorio, Ragusa - Wikipedia

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    A church was first consecrated in 1658, erected under the patronage of the Mazza family. The 1693 Sicily earthquake that nearly levelled Ragusa, left this church mainly untouched, and in 1694, it took over some of the functions of the nearby church of San Giovanni, that had moved into a new district of Patro. In 1729, this church was placed ...

  6. Ragusa Cathedral - Wikipedia

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    A church of San Giovanni Battista stood before the 1693 Sicily earthquake in the west of the old town of Ragusa (Ragusa Ibla) under the walls of a medieval castle, where there now stands the church of St. Agnes. [1] Severely damaged by the earthquake, it was rebuilt at the center of the new upper town of Ragusa in the district of "Patro". [1]

  7. A Taiwan-based Buddhist charity attempts to take the ... - AOL

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    When a 7.4-magnitude earthquake ripped through Taiwan in April, it took about 30 minutes for the region’s most ubiquitous charity to set up an emergency response center. Tzu Chi, an ...

  8. Ragusa, Sicily - Wikipedia

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    Ragusa (Italian: [raˈɡuːza] ⓘ; Sicilian: Rausa; Latin: Ragusia) is a city and comune in southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Ragusa, on the island of Sicily, with 73,288 inhabitants in 2016. [2]

  9. Turkey-Syria earthquake- latest: Desperation grips Syria as ...

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    Salah Aboulgasem, who is working for the charity Islamic Relief in Gaziantep, southern Turkey, arrived 14 hours after the earthquake struck 21 miles east of the city.