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  2. List of Neapolitan monarchs - Wikipedia

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    Joanna of Naples had refused to name her enemy Charles of Durazzo as heir to the Neapolitan throne despite him ending up succeeding her anyway. If Charles' line was ignored, the subsequent heirs would be the descendants of Margaret, Countess of Anjou , a daughter of Charles II of Naples ; the line pointed to the kings of France of the House of ...

  3. Quarters of Naples - Wikipedia

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    Through pragmatic sanction issued on 6 January 1779, King Ferdinand IV ordered that the city of Naples be divided into 12 quarters in order to establish and have each of them a judge of the Grand Criminal Court, in order to favor the public safety of the citizens. [1] The 12 districts of the 1779 city division had the following denomination: [2]

  4. Aragonese conquest of Naples - Wikipedia

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    At the end of that year he laid siege to Naples again and occupied Cosenza and Bisignano. [citation needed] Alfonso became king of Naples, as he wished with the Aragonese victory at Naples on June 2, 1442, from where René of Anjou fled with a galley, although Ramon de Boïl i Montagut [20] still fought in Abruzzo against Francesco I Sforza. [21]

  5. History of Naples - Wikipedia

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    Two of these link the residential area of Vomero to the historic centre of the city. One links Vomero with Chiaia and one, in the western part of the city, links Mergellina with Posillipo. In 1927 Naples absorbed some nearby communities; the 1860 population of 450,000 increased to 1,250,000 in 1971.

  6. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies - Wikipedia

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    Ferdinand was born in Naples as the third son of King Charles VII and Queen Maria Amalia. In August 1759, Charles succeeded his half-brother Ferdinand VI of Spain as King Charles III, but treaty provisions made him ineligible to hold all three crowns.

  7. Naples - Wikipedia

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    The Autostrada A1, the longest motorway in Italy, links Naples to Milan. [142] The A3 runs southwards from Naples to Salerno, where the motorway to Reggio Calabria begins, while the A16 runs east to Canosa. [143] The A16 is nicknamed the autostrada dei Due Mari ("Motorway of the Two Seas") because it connects the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Adriatic ...

  8. Gulf of Naples - Wikipedia

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    The Peninsula separates the Gulf of Naples from the Gulf of Salerno, which includes the Amalfi Coast. The islands of Capri , Ischia and Procida are located in the Gulf of Naples. [ 1 ] The area is a tourist destination, with the seaside Roman ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum at the foot of Mount Vesuvius (destroyed in the AD 79 eruption of ...

  9. Outline of Naples - Wikipedia

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    Naples has the fourth-largest urban economy in Italy, after Milan, Rome and Turin. It is the world's 103rd-richest city by purchasing power , with an estimated 2011 GDP of US$83.6 billion. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The port of Naples is one of the most important in Europe, and has the world's second-highest level of passenger flow, after the port of Hong Kong.