ISCHIA

ēsˈkyä, volcanic island (1991 pop. 16,013), 18 sq mi (47 sq km), Campania, S Italy, in the Tyrrhenian Sea between the Gulf of Gaeta and the Bay of Naples. Known as the Emerald Isle, it is a health resort and a tourist center, celebrated for its warm mineral springs and for its scenery. Fishing and farming are also pursued, and wine (Epomeo), tiles, and pottery are made. Settled in the 8th cent. b.c., the island was abandoned several times because of volcanic eruptions (the last of which occurred in 1301). There was a severe earthquake in 1883. Monte Epomeo (2,585 ft/788 m) is the island's highest point. Ischia, the main town, has an imposing 15th-century castle, constructed on foundations built by the Greeks in the 5th cent. b.c.

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Ancient Italy: Historical and Geographical Investigations in Central Italy, Magna Graecia, Sicily, and Sardinia
Book by Ettore Pais, C. Densmore Curtis; University of Chicago Press, 1908
Subjects: Greeks--Italy, Italy--History
ANCIENT ITALY -ii- PLATE I CASTLE OF ISCHIA ANCIENT ITALY HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL...Plate 1. Castle of Ischia see chap. xvi Frontispiece...XVI. CONCERNING THE EARLY HISTORY OF ISCHIA 181...
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Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean: Papers in Honour of Brian Shefton
Book by Kathryn Lomas; Brill, 2004
Subjects: Greeks--Western Mediterranean--Ethnic Identity--History--To 1500, Pottery, Greek--Western Mediterranean
...discrimination between the composition groups for Ischia (1), Cumae (2), Veii (3), Chalkis (4...mission from F. Gracia; d Kotyle from Ischia analysed by OES (GCP Table 8.10: 2...and 9) Fig. 3: Rhodian (?) flask from Ischia (Ischia Museum, grave 159, 5) Fig. 4...
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Italy: A Popular Account of the Country, Its People, and Its Institutions (Including Malta and Sardinia)
Book by W. Deecke, H. A. Nesbitt; Swan Sonnenschein, 1904
Subjects: Italy, Malta
...Fields with the associated islands of Ischia, Procida, and Vivara, and the southern...named, of the Bay of Naples, Capri, Ischia and Procida, which appear even to the...portions of the mainland. To the west of Ischia, the little group of the Ponza Isles...
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Roma Beta; Letters from the Eternal City
Book by Maud Howe; "LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY", 1905
Subjects: Italy--Description And Travel, Rome (Italy)--Description And Travel
...WHITE -- WITCH'S NIGHT 187 X. ISCHIA 215 XI. OLD AND NEW ROME...Collection of Mr. Thomas W. Lawson Ischia 216 From a photograph...
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Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World
Book by Anna Lillios; Susquehanna University Press, 2004
Subjects: Durrell, Lawrence--Knowledge--Greece, English Fiction--Greek Influences, Greece--In Literature, Hellenism In Literature
...Lawrence Durrell. Zarian denizen of Corfu, Ischia, and Cyprus is a central character in...from 1937 to 54: on Corfu in 1937, on Ischia in 1950, and on Cyprus in 1954. In 1935...occurred not on Greek soil, but on Italian Ischia in 1950 The Island and A Man (1955...
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"La Bestia Paziente": Images of the Body in the Fiction of Erri De Luca
Journal article by Marina Spunta; Italian Culture, Vol. 20, 2002
Subjects: Italian fiction--Criticism and interpretation
...Napoli era ossessionata dalla miseria e Ischia rappresentava, a contrasto, tutti...from city rules in the summers spent on Ischia, when the body regained full identity...of nature in the fishing community of Ischia (already encountered in Non ora, non qui...
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Coaching Athletes Using Laban Movement Analysis
Journal article by Janet Hamburg; JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, Vol. 66, 1995
Subjects: Physical education and training--Methods, Physical education--Methods, Sports--Training
...the bodys bony landmarks (heels, coccyx, ischia, head, shoulder blades, etc.) and think...Visualizing the connections between the ischia, coccyx, and heels helps athletes ground...to shoot accurately if the coccyx and ischia stay aligned above the heels on the descent...
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Portrait of a Friendship: Selected Correspondence between Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams
Journal article by Joyce Durham; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2005
Subjects: American literature--Personalities, American writers--Social aspects, Authors, American--Social aspects, Friendship--Portrayals, McCullers, Carson--Criticism and interpretation, McCullers, Carson--Records and correspondence, Williams, Tennessee--Criticism and interpretation, Williams, Tennessee--Records and correspondence
...sisterhood were all clustered on the little island of Ischia for several months but all at once there was some convulsion...flapping like geese, and there are rumors that the island of Ischia has dropped back under the sea. (DU...
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A Course of Life: My Autobiography
Journal article by Donald Phillip Verene; CLIO, Vol. 23, 1994
Subjects: Philosophers--Biography
...Switzerland or Germany, and most often in Italy, on the island of Ischia near Naples, where he and his wife, Elena, had built a house...-89. We spent the summer in Florence, with a visit to Grassi on Ischia, then went to London and Oxford. I was elected Visiting Fellow...
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Publishing Women: Salons, the Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Journal article by George W. Mcclure; The Historian, Vol. 70, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Publishing Women: Salons, the Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...her study is the founding of a salon in 1509 on the island of Ischia near Naples by the Costanza dAvalos, widowed chatelaine of a...was Giulia Gonzaga, who married Vittoria Colonnas cousin. From Ischia and Naples these women, war widowed or otherwise often on their...
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Sir William Walton: a Centenary Tribute
Magazine article; Musical Opinion, Vol. 125, December 2001
...1902 in Oldham in Lancashire and died in Ischia on 8 March 1983. His musicality developed...championed Williams music and used their Ischia home to further the causes of music and...settled on the Mediterranean island of Ischia, whose environment is felt by some to...
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Facade: William Walton Was an Anodyne Laureate Who Preferred Porn to Performances of His Own Work. Is His Centenary Worth Commemorating
Magazine article by Peter Conrad; New Statesman, Vol. 131, March 18, 2002
Subjects: Composers--Biography, Walton, William--Biography
...in Oldham on 29 March 1902 and died in Ischia, on an estate resembling a lush tropical...these jewelled perks. In 1949, he moved to Ischia with his young wife Susana, ignoring the...Between times, landscaping a hillside in Ischia and renting out holiday cottages to friends...
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More Than a Meal
Magazine article by Nika Hazelton; National Review, Vol. 47, December 11, 1995
Subjects: Dining--Personal narratives, Dinners and dining--Personal narratives
...especially took place on the island of Ischia, off Naples. My mother and I were spending...wherever their mothers went. The waters of Ischia, my mother was told, would stimulate her...Swiss spas whose waters would do the same, Ischia was conveniently close. My mothers day...
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Stage Struck
Magazine article by Diana Burrell; Musical Times, Vol. 140, Summer 1999
...many years before. Yet Henze, though devastated, returned to Ischia and began working on Act 2 of Konig Hirsch. Henze articulates...his relationship with Walton, at one stage a near-neighbour in Ischia. Henze clearly loved the old man dearly in spite of having reservations...
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Underdosed
Magazine article by Tom Bethell; The American Spectator, Vol. 35, July 2002
Subjects: Health, Poisons, Radiation
...disorders. Klaus Becker told me that the Romans loved to go to what we would now call radon spas-there was one on the island of Ischia, near Capri-long before the radioactive gas itself had been identified. In fact, many of the famous European spas correspond...
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THE ITALIAN JOB; Much Loved by the Italians and More Affordable Than Capri, the Island of Ischia Is a Holiday Hideaway for the Stars and You, Says Cathy Hawker
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 11, 2009
Subjects: Real estate industry
...More Affordable Than Capri, the Island of Ischia Is a Holiday Hideaway for the Stars and...DURING the 1950s the small island of Ischia in the Mediterranean attracted a star...which sits across the Mediterranean Sea. Ischia is 19 miles from Naples, a 50-minute hydrofoil...
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Your Travel: PIZZA & QUIET; FROM DESIGNER CHIC TO UNSPOILT BEAUTY ON THE ISLANDS OF CAPRI, ISCHIA & PROCIDA IN THE BAY OF NAPLES
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), November 16, 2008
Subjects: Louis Vuitton S.A.
...UNSPOILT BEAUTY ON THE ISLANDS OF CAPRI, ISCHIA PROCIDA IN THE BAY OF NAPLES. Byline...Procida and the unspoilt volcanic beauty of Ischia, the largest of the trio. Shop windows...into the islands main port from Naples or Ischia by hydrofoil ferry (EUR16.50 one-way from...
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THE MAGIC of ISCHIA; Italian Island Known for Thermal Waters, Gorgeous Scenery
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 13, 2007
Subjects: Resorts
THE MAGIC of ISCHIA; Italian Island Known for Thermal Waters...Fletcher SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES ISCHIA, Italy - We have the luxury seaside resort...band, happy victims of the magic that is Ischia, a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea...
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Holidays: ISCHIA INDULGENCE
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), November 27, 2005
Holidays: ISCHIA INDULGENCE. Byline: By ADELE EVANS...and mythological heroes took a break in Ischia, bathing in the hot bubbling springs prized...there are views over the Bay of Naples. Ischia is the largest of the Neapolitan islands...
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PIZZA & QUIET; from Designer Chic to Unspoilt Beauty on the Islands of Capri, Ischia & Procida in the Bay of Naples
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), November 16, 2008
Subjects: Louis Vuitton S.A.
...Unspoilt Beauty on the Islands of Capri, Ischia Procida in the Bay of Naples. Byline...Procida and the unspoilt volcanic beauty of Ischia, the largest of the trio. Shop windows...into the islands main port from Naples or Ischia by hydrofoil ferry (pounds 14 one-way...
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encyclopedia articles on: Ischia  - 5 results

 
 
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Ischia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ISCHIA es kya, volcanic island (1991 pop. 16,013), 18 sq mi (47 sq km), Campania, S Italy, in the Tyrrhenian Sea between the...which occurred in 1301). There was a severe earthquake in 1883. Monte Epomeo (2,585 ft/788 m) is the islands highest point. Ischia, the main town, has an imposing 15th-century castle, constructed on foundations built by the Greeks in the 5th cent. b.c...
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Hip
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...called the hipbones are the crests of the ilia. The bones of the buttocks that support the seated body are projections of the ischia. At the body midline, fibrous tissue bands the two pubis bones, thus stabilizing the hips and preventing them from spreading...
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Campania
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Apennines W to the Tyrrhenian Sea and from the Garigliano River S to the Gulf of Policastro. It includes the islands of Capri, Ischia, and Procida. Naples is the capital of Campania, which is divided into Benevento, Caserta, Naples, and Salerno provs. (named...
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Naples , City, Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...north to the Sorrento peninsula in the south and is dotted with towns and villas. Near its entrance are the islands of Capri, Ischia, and Procida. Naples is a crowded and noisy city, famous for its songs, festivals, and gaiety. Especially interesting parts...
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Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...includes the large Mediterranean islands of Sicily and Sardinia and several small islands, notably Elba , Capri , Ischia , and the Lipari Islands . Vatican City and San Marino are two independent enclaves on the Italian mainland. Rome...


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