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  2. Dictatorship of Giuseppe Garibaldi - Wikipedia

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    The Dictatorship of Garibaldi or Dictatorial Government of Sicily was the provisional executive that Giuseppe Garibaldi appointed to govern the territory of Sicily during the Expedition of the Thousand in 1860. It governed in opposition to the Bourbons of Naples. The word dictator did not, at this time, always imply a despotic ruler.

  3. Giuseppe Garibaldi - Wikipedia

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    The next day, he declared himself dictator of Sicily in the name of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy. He advanced to the outskirts of Palermo, the capital of the island, and launched a siege on 27 May. He had the support of many inhabitants, who rose up against the garrison, but before they could take the city, reinforcements arrived and bombarded ...

  4. 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]

  5. Renato Schifani - Wikipedia

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    In February 1995, he joined Forza Italia and became the regional manager of the party departments in Sicily. [1] Elected in 1996 in the Altofonte−Corleone district in Sicily, [1] he served as Silvio Berlusconi's chief whip in the Senate. During his first legislature, he was the group leader of Forza Italia in the Constitutional Affairs ...

  6. History of Sicily - Wikipedia

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    Temple of Segesta. The history of Sicily has been influenced by numerous ethnic groups. It has seen Sicily controlled by powers, including Phoenician and Carthaginian, Greek, Roman, Vandal and Ostrogoth, Byzantine, Arab, Norman, Aragonese, Spanish, Austrians, British, but also experiencing important periods of independence, as under the indigenous Sicanians, Elymians, Sicels, the Greek ...

  7. List of Sicilian monarchs - Wikipedia

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    Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Sicily (14th century). The monarchs of Sicily ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Sicily in 1130 until the "perfect fusion" in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1816. The origins of the Sicilian monarchy lie in the Norman conquest of southern Italy which occurred between the 11th and 12th century.

  8. Syria is free of its dictator. The rebels’ biggest challenge ...

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    Those rebels – led by the Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham – must now try to unite a country cleaved apart by more than a decade of civil war, one in which dozens of heavily armed militias and remnants of ...

  9. Timeline of Italian history - Wikipedia

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    Allied troops fight in the following two years to free the whole peninsula. The Italian Resistance plays a growing role in harassing German occupation forces. 25 July: After the Allied occupy Sicily, the government of Mussolini is overthrown by the same Grand Council of Fascism. 8 September: General Badoglio signs the Armistice of Cassibile ...

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