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2. Expedition of the Thousand - Wikipedia

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   The Expedition of the Thousand (Italian: Spedizione dei Mille) was an event of the unification of Italy that took place in 1860. A corps of volunteers led by Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Quarto al Mare near Genoa and landed in Marsala, Sicily, in order to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, ruled by the Spanish House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. [3]

3. Tirrenia (company) - Wikipedia

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   In 2015, Tirrenia was entirely acquired by Vincenzo Onorato and became part of the Onorato Armatori group. Pietro Manunta was named president and Massimo Mura Managing Director. [6] Vincenzo Onorato also owns the other ferry company of Naples, Moby Lines. [7] In 2019, Tirrenia raised its prices, leading to reactions from the weakened local ...

4. History of Sicily - Wikipedia

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   The Two Italies: economic relations between the Norman kingdom of Sicily and the northern communes (Cambridge UP, 2005). Atkinson, Rick. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (2007) Baedeker (1912), "Sicily: Historical Notice", Southern Italy and Sicily (16th ed.), Leipzig: Leipzig, Baedeker, pp. 290– 303; Blok Anton.

5. Kingdom of Naples - Wikipedia

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   However, Naples and Sicily were conquered by Charles, Duke of Parma (of the Spanish Bourbons) during the War of the Polish Succession in 1734, he was then installed as King of Naples and Sicily from 1735. In 1816, Naples formally unified with the island of Sicily to form the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The Kingdom of Naples was one of the ...

6. Kingdom of the Two Sicilies - Wikipedia

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   Finley, M. I., Denis Mack Smith and Christopher Duggan, A History of Sicily (1987) abridged one-volume version of 3-volume set of 1969) Imbruglia, Girolamo, ed. Naples in the eighteenth century: The birth and death of a nation state (Cambridge University Press, 2000) Mendola, Louis. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies 1734–1861 (2019) Petrusewicz ...

7. Army of the Two Sicilies - Wikipedia

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   To get an idea of the size of the salaries of Neapolitan soldiers it is possible to compare their daily pay to that of the workers of the time: the workers of Campania received on average a daily wage of about 40/50 grain (those of the poorest provinces about half), the metalworkers 75 grains per day and the foremen about 85 grains per day. The ...