CASSINO, Town, Italy

käs-sēˈnō, town (1991 pop. 32,787), in Latium, central Italy, in the Apennines, on the Rapido River. It is a commercial and agricultural center, and the site of a Fiat auto assembly plant. The peace between Emperor Frederick II and Pope Gregory IX was signed there in 1230. During World War II (late 1943) the town and the nearby Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino were strongly defended by Germans blocking the Allied advance on Rome. After five months of concentrated ground attacks and attempts to divert German troops by landings at Anzio and Nettuno, the Allies finally captured the German positions in May, 1944. Cassino was reduced to rubble but was largely rebuilt. Of note is the cathedral (18th cent., rebuilt after 1944), which contains the alleged remains of St. Benedict and his sister St. Scholastica. Until 1871, Cassino was called San Germano.

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Theology, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Eucharistic Controversy, 1078-1079: Alberic of Monte Cassino against Berengar of Tours
Book by Charles M. Radding, Francis Newton; Columbia University Press, 2003
Subjects: Albericus--Monk Of Monte Cassino--12th Cent, Berengar--Of Tours--Ca. 1000-1088, Lord's Supper--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500, University Of Aberdeen--Library--Manuscript--160, Fol. 55v-61v
...even laymen themselves are chattering about it among themselves in the town squares. What they say is that a certain Berengar of Tours, a man of...him as a monk or a regular canon, although in the context of Southern Italy a monk is far
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Landscapes and Cities: Rural Settlement and Civic Transformation in Early Imperial Italy
Book by John R. Patterson; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Cities And Towns, Ancient--Italy, Central, Cities And Towns, Ancient--Italy, Southern, Cities And Towns, Ancient--Rome, Italy--Antiquities, Roman, Land Settlement--Italy, Central--History, Land Settlement--Italy, Southern--History, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D, Rome--Social Conditions, Urbanization--Rome
...si Q fermato ad Eboli) Italy under the Empire has no...for the population of Italy. As Cagiano de Azevedo...ancient Aquinum, the town was un abitato dedito...after the Battle of Monte Cassino.2 As Millar himself...a history of imperial Italy. The vast abundance of...
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Backwater War: The Allied Campaign in Italy, 1943-1945
Book by Edwin P. Hoyt; Praeger, 2002
Subjects: Anzio Beachhead, 1944, Italy--History--Allied Occupation, 1943-1947, Italy--History--German Occupation, 1943-1945, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy, World War, 1939-1945--Italy
Rapido River area, Italy: Smoke from the shells of German Nebelwerfers partially obscures Cassino. Above the town is the Cassino Monastery, which U.S. artillerymen...Aerial bombing of Anzio harbor, Italy. (Library of Congress Photo...
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Works of Art in Italy: Losses and Survivals in the War
Book; H.M. Stationery Off., 1945
Subjects: Architecture--Italy, Art Treasures In War, Art--Italy, World War, 1939-1945--Art And The War
...Bibliography at BARI. All these cases are intact. CASSINO Frosinone The town, with its mediaeval castle, was destroyed...winter of 1943-44. See also under MONTE CASSINO. CASTEL FIORENTINO Firenze The town suffered heavily, but its two outstanding...
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The Liberation of Italy, 1943-1947
Book by Luigi Villari; C.C. Nelson Publishing, 1959
Subjects: Italy--Politics And Government--1943-1947, World War, 1939-1945--Italy
...the destruction of several towns and villages in the Pontine...policy. Further south, the town of Cassino was wrecked, but the Germans...Anzio front and those near Cassino was not yet effected. Some...nails along the roads. East of Cassino, a band of common criminals...
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A Question of Leadership: the 5th Army in Italy
Journal article by John McNeel; The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 76, 2000
Subjects: Army-US, Clark, Mark (Military personnel), Italy, Leadership, Military engagements, Military officers, Military personnel, Military strategy, World War II
...impregnable defenses of the town of Cassino itself and the mountain...in the twin resort towns of Anzio and Nettuno...Valmontone and Albano, a town in the Alban Hills...but all of southern Italy. He was not the...toward the nearby towns of Cisterna and Campoleone...from the 5th Armys Cassino front to counter...
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Early Modern Controversies about the One-Sex Model
Journal article by Winfried Schleiner; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: Anatomy--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Gender identity--History, Homology (Biology)--Research, Literature and science--Evaluation, Medicine--History, Reproductive organs, Female--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...the year when Licinius Crassus and Cassius Longinus were consuls, 582 years after the founding of Rome, at Cassino, a town in Italy, a girl became boy and was taken to a deserted island by order of soothsayers. 18 Dulaurens then lists twelve...
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The Maori at War and Strategic Survival: Tu by Patricia Grace
Journal article by Janet Wilson; Hecate, Vol. 34, 2008
Subjects: Fathers, Scholarships & fellowships, War
...involved: the battle for Cassino, a town with the crucial Highway...liberation of central Italy.9 The intense neighbourhood...28th Battalion, gave Cassino the reputation of being...Abbey that overlooked Cassino town, also appears in...
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Politics of Place and Extended Family in Taki Rua Productions' 25th Year: Strange Resting Places and Te Karakia
Journal article by David O'Donnell; Australasian Drama Studies, 2009
Subjects: New Zealand, Regional studies, Taki Rua Productions, Theater, Theater companies, Theater criticism
...historical research in New Zealand and Italy following the pathways of the 28th...general. Set during the battle of Monte Cassino in Italy during World War II, Strange...begins in 1967 in Pirongia, a farming town in the Waikato region, a potent setting...
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Annibal Caro's After-Dinner Speech (1536) and the Question of Titian as Vesalius's Illustrator
Journal article by Patricia Simons, Monique Kornell; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Anatomists--Works, Caro, Annibale--Speeches, lectures and essays, Painters (Artists)--Evaluation, Painters--Evaluation, Poets--Speeches, lectures and essays, Titian--Evaluation, Vesalius, Andreas--Works
...illustrations of his own. Having arrived in Italy late in 1537, Vesalius soon after met...who hailed from a town in northwestern Italy in the region of Piedmont, between Milan...only recorded in Guicciardinis history of Italy and in Sanudos diaries, but had a wider...
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Tempting Providence: The Bombing of Monte Cassino
Magazine article by David Colvin, Richard Hodges; History Today, Vol. 44, February 1994
Subjects: Italy--History, Monte Cassino (Benedictine monastery)--Siege, 1944, World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations
...intense dispute. Monte Cassino was founded by St Benedict...Sicily and Salerno, Monte Cassino was chosen by Field Marshal...the German armies in Italy, as the pivotal point...monastery, the old Roman town of Casinum (population...immediately behind or west of Cassino and also from the foothills...
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Escape from Vesuvius: In October 1943 the Allies Liberated the Area around the Infamous Volcano in the Bay of Naples. Its Sudden Eruption in March 1944, as War in Italy Raged, Stretched the Resources of the Combined Services to the Limit, but as David Chester and Angus Duncan Explain, What Followed Was an Exemplary Emergency Operation
Magazine article by David Chester, Angus Duncan; History Today, Vol. 59, August 2009
Subjects: Air forces--History, Allies (World War II)--1944 AD, Assistance in emergencies--Evaluation, Emergency assistance--Evaluation, Volcanoes--History, Volcanoes--Italy, Volcanoes--Military aspects
...1944, as War in Italy Raged, Stretched...Vesuvius at Monte Cassino and immediately...attempt to take Monte Cassino was thwarted and...south towards the towns of Torte del Greco...engulfing the town. That day the volcano...administering those parts of Italy under ACC control...collapsing roofs in the towns of Pagani and Nocera...concluded that the town was no longer at...
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Recollections of Italy, 65 Years Later
Magazine article by Eric N. Atkisson; Army, Vol. 58, November 2008
Subjects: Armed forces, Associations, Military personnel, Municipal government, Museums, Secondary schools, Shootings, Shoulder
Recollections of Italy, 65 Years Later by Eric N. Atkisson When Alfred Dietrick saw Italy for the first time - September 9, 1943- it was...anybody else," he thought Dietrick has returned to Italy five times since the war, revisiting the scenes...
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Charlemagne's Elephant
Magazine article by Richard Hodges; History Today, Vol. 50, December 2000
Subjects: Charlemagne--Biography, Rome, Italy--History
...Bologna in Central Italy. Silks, Syrian...in an isolated town in the early twentieth...monastery of Monte Cassino lists silks and...monasteries as towns had not survived...Flanders and central Italy, while extra...presaging the planned towns of the late ninth...further south in Italy new towns like...monasteries like Monte Cassino (Italy) and...
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The Sack of San Vincenzo Al Volturno
Magazine article by Richard Hodges; History Today, Vol. 47, July 1997
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy, Italy--History, Middle Ages--History, Monasteries--History
...The story of the Arabs in ninth-century Italy, like their counterparts, the Vikings...be resolved. The Arab corsairs plaguing Italy and southern France turned to settlers...down to Benevento, with all the hosts of Italy, France, Burgundy and Provence to put...
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THE LOST HEROINE OF MONTE CASSINO; the Incredible Story of a Girl from Glasgow Who Rescued a Young British Soldier in War-Torn Italy - and How Her Bravery Cost the Lives of an Entire Village, REVIEW
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 12, 2004
...LOST HEROINE OF MONTE CASSINO; the Incredible Story...Soldier in War-Torn Italy - and How Her Bravery...medieval monastery of Monte Cassino, preparing for what...which ran through Monte Cassino. This was where his...local Italian boy in the town of Cardito. It was a...
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My Italian Campaign with the D-Day Dodgers; from Monte Cassino to Rome ... Frank Barrett Retraces a Forgotten Army's Epic Slog to Victory; Where Are the Reminders of This Brave Forgotten Army?
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 21, 2010
...south. The liberation of Italy had ground to a halt in a bloodbath at Monte Cassino, 80 miles south of Rome...pinned down in Monte Cassino and the newly landed...march north from Monte Cassino to Rome took Allied forces...February morning the town of Cassino, which was...
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War Hero Dies Weeks after Finding Peace at Graves of His Fallen Comrades; VETERAN REVISITED SITE WHERE 105,000 LOST LIVES
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), August 21, 2010
Subjects: Battle of Monte Cassino, 1944
...of the Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy, where more than 105...The battle of Monte Cassino was one of the bloodiest...top overlooking the town and there was some vicious...Cecil returns to Monte Cassino SURVIVOR Royal Irish...
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Classic Italy; Browse. Buy. Enjoy
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 26, 2010
Classic Italy; Browse. Buy. Enjoy...travel via historic Monte Cassino to the popularTuscan spa town of Fiuggi. From here...extraordinaryTuscan hill town of Orvieto. Fully escorted...Mount Vesuvius, Monte Cassino, Rome, Florence, Assisi...its string of colourful towns and glorious views...
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Revenge of the Mafiosquitoes; the Riviera of Ulysses in Italy
Newspaper article by Geoff Hill; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), November 13, 1997
...Riviera of Ulysses in Italy. by Geoff Hill The day...Camorra in this part of Italy around Naples, has been...entrusting 62 of its 66 towns to mafiosi or their kin...governor of this part of Italy under Julius Caesar...wasnt the only out-of-town obsessive to visit the...named Filippo Neri from Cassino abandoned the ways of...
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encyclopedia articles on: Cassino Town Italy  - 2 results

 
 
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Cassino , Town, Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CASSINO , town, Italy kas-se no, town (1991 pop. 32...the nearby Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino were strongly defended by Germans blocking...the German positions in May, 1944. Cassino was reduced to rubble but was largely...
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Anzio
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ANZIO an tsyo, Lat. Antium, town (1991 pop. 33,497), in Latium, central Italy, on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It...fishing industry. A Volscian town, it was captured by Rome in...to draw German forces from Cassino, thus effecting a breakthrough...


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