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The castle became a holiday residence for the King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, and later for Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, whose name can still be seen on a large plaque near the entrance. On 10 February 1947, the Treaty of Peace with Italy , one of the Paris Peace Treaties , determined that the recently established Italian Republic ...
The Knights' castle at Rhodes. At Rhodes, the resident knights of each langue were headed by a baili. The English Grand Prior at the time was Philip De Thame, who acquired the estates allocated to the English langue from 1330 to 1358. In 1334, the Knights of Rhodes defeated Andronikos III Palaiologos and his Turkish auxiliaries. In the 14th ...
Dieudonné de Gozon Tombstone of Dieudonné de Gozon, Rhodes. Musée de Cluny. Dieudonné de Gozon was the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes from 1346 to 1353. He was born to a noble family in Languedoc, France. He carried the nickname Extinctor Draconis, which means "The Dragon Slayer" in Latin.
The interior. Panagia tou Kastrou was built as a Greek Orthodox church around the eleventh century. [1] [2]After the capture of Rhodes by the Knights Hospitaller, the Byzantine Orthodox church was converted into a Roman Catholic church and archiepiscopal cathedral of the Latins, also dedicated to Virgin Mary, under the name Sancta Maria Castelli Rodi.
His death was a trigger of the 2003-2004 Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal: Abed Hamed Mowhoush: 2003-11-26 Iraq (detained by the United States) Died from torture during a CIA interrogation: Air vice-marshal of the Iraqi Air Force: His death was initially attributed to "natural causes" by the CIA.
The Medieval City of Rhodes was constructed around 1309 to 1523 and is part of the modern capital city of Rhodes on the Island of Rhodes in Greece. The site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1988. [1] The Medieval city consists of the high town to the north and the lower town south-southwest.
This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout the Middle Ages, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. John II Komnenos on a boar hunt Frederick Barbarossa 's strange drowning gave rise to legends that he was still alive
Kahal Shalom has been renovated with the help of foreign donors but few Jews live year-round in Rhodes today, so services are not held on a regular basis. [74] The Jewish Museum of Rhodes was established in 1997 to preserve the Jewish history and culture of the Jews of Rhodes. It is adjacent to the Kahal Shalom Synagogue.