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- Calabria
- Region of Italy
- own name: Calàbria
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Flag of Calabria,
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Source, by: Wikipedia (D)
The flag of Calabria is colored in blue, and shows in its center a disc with the emblem of the region. This is an oblique crossing between gold and silver, and shows a pine tree, two crosses and the upper end of a trimmed Doric column. The latter is an indication for Calabria as an ancient settlement area of the Greeks. There are also versions of the flag, which additionally show the inscription "REGIONE CALABRIA" in white.
Source: Wikipedia (D)
all names in Italian
Source: Volker Preuß
Area: 5.822 square miles
Inhabitants: 1.924.700 (2019)
Density of Population: 330 inh./sq.mi.
Capital: Catanzaro, 88.300 inh. (2019)
official Language: Italian, Grecanic
Time Zone: GMT +1 h
Source: Wikipedia (D)
8. Jhd. B.C. · Greek colonization of the coast of Calabria, ousting of the initially here living Bruttians into the inland
263–201 B.C. · Roman conquest
ca. 400 A.D. · conquest by the Western Goth
ca. 456 · invasions of the Vandals
476 · dismissal of the last Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus, end of the (West)Roman Empire, Calabria belongs until 493 to the Empire of the Odoaker
534 · conquest by Byzantium (East Rome)
1061–1091 · conquest of Sicily by the Normans, establishment of the Kingdom of Sicily
1130 · Lower Italy with the Langobardian principalities, Naples Town, and the from the Byzantians left Norman territorities get united with the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, Calabria is a part of it and remains connected with the Kingdom of Sicily to 1861 (resp. 1282–1815 with the Kingdom of Naples)
1194 · the Kingdom of Siciliy comes to the House of Hohenstaufen
1266 · the Kingdom of Siciliy comes to the house Anjou, Naples becomes perpetual capital of the Empire
1282 · "Sicilian Vespers" – by a uprising comes the Island of Sicily as a kingdom to the House of Aragón, Lower Italy remains as Kingdom of Sicily (unofficial: Kingdom of Naples) until 1442 at Anjou
1495 · the Kingdom of Naples gets a French estate
1529 · the Kingdom of Naples gets estate of the House of Habsburg
1556 · the Kingdom of Naples comes to the Spanish line of the House of Habsburg
1701–1714 · Spanish heritage succession war
1714 · peace treaty of Utrecht, the Kingdom of Naples and the Kingdom of Sardinia come to the House of the Austrian Habsburgs, Kingdom of Sicily comes to Savoy-Piedmont
1720 · the House of Savoy-Piedmont swaps with Austria Sicily in return for Sardinia, the Kingdom of Sicily comes in this way to the House of Habsburg (Kingdom of Naples-Sicily)
1734 · the House of Habsburg leaves the Kingdom of Naples-Sicily to the House of the Spanish Bourbons
January 1799 · invasion of French revolutionary troops, in the Kingdom of Naples the Bourbon rule ends, proclamation of the Parthenopean Republic, the king fled to Palermo, withdrawal of the French troops, the island of Sicily remains at the House of Bourbon
June 1799 · anti-French uprising, fall of the republic, the king returns
1806 · invasion of French troops under Napoléon I., Napoleón enthrones his brother Joseph Bonaparte as King of Naples
1808 · Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain, Napoleón enthrones his brother-in-law Joachim Murat as King of Naples
1796 · Italy campaign of Napoléon, Sicily remains at the House of Bourbon
1815 · Congress of Vienna, reconstruction of Europe after the era of Napoléon, the Kingdom Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples come to the Spanish Bourbons
8th of December in 1816 · establish of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies under the Spanish Bourbons
1860 · Garibaldi's campaign against the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, the king exiles, Garibaldi acts as dictator
1861 · the Kingdom of Two Sicilies has to join the Kingdom of Italy
1947 · establishment of the Calabria region as administrative unit
Source:
Meyers Konversationslexikon,
Atlas zur Geschichte,
Wikipedia (D)
The name "Calabria" goes back to the ancient Greek colonists. They called the landscape "kali avra", what means "soft wind", a reference to the fresh sea breezes in the southern Apennine Peninsula.
Source:
Handbuch der geographischen Namen
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