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Italian Swiss Colony. / 38.29333°N 122.45556°W / 38.29333; -122.45556. Italian Swiss Colony was a 19th and 20th-century American wine company and brand. Based in Asti, Sonoma County, California, Italian Swiss Colony was at one time the leading wine producer in California. [3]
It was founded in 1886 by Raffaello Petri. [ 1] In 1953, Petri Wine was the largest domestic producer of wine in the United States. [ 2] Petri originally produced their wine exclusively in kegs for bulk, local distribution. [ 2] During prohibition, the Petri family closed down their wineries, sold their 250,000 gallons worth of stock, [ 3] and ...
e. Italy and the colonization of the Americas was related to. Primarily : An aborted attempt to create a colony in the Americas, in what is now French Guiana, made by the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in the early 1600s. An attempt to create a colony in the Antilles by an Italian Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller of Malta (then part of Sicily ).
Four Deuces. The Four Deuces were an American rhythm and blues vocal quartet, formed in the mid-1950s in Salinas, California. The band was started by lead singer Luther McDaniel, and recorded several songs before they broke up in 1959. While active, the Four Deuces had moderate but short-lived popularity, mainly along the West Coast, mostly due ...
There were 1,552 Swiss women (47.0%) and 15 (0.5%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 501 or about 17.9% were born in Port and lived there in 2000. There were 1,332 or 47.6% who were born in the same canton, while 586 or 20.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 299 or 10.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
Italy, in the first half of the 20th century, had concessions & possessions in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Amoy, and Hankou, as well as at two forts ( Taku and the Shan Hai Guan ). It is noteworthy to pinpoint that only in Tianjin, Beijing, and Shanhai Pass, was the Italian government in control (with colonial property rights). In the other ...
The Italian diaspora ( Italian: emigrazione italiana, pronounced [emiɡratˈtsjoːne itaˈljaːna]) is the large-scale emigration of Italians from Italy. There were two major Italian diasporas in Italian history. The first diaspora began around 1880, two decades after the Unification of Italy, and ended in the 1920s to the early 1940s with the ...
The Port of Livorno is one of the largest Italian seaports and one of the largest seaports in the Mediterranean Sea, with an annual traffic capacity of around 30 million tonnes of cargo and 700,000 TEU's . The port is also an important employer in the area, with more than 15,000 employees who provide services to more than 7,000 ships every year ...