L'AQUILA

or L'Aquila degli Abruzziläˈkwēlä dāˈlyē äbrootˈtsē, city (1991 pop. 66,813), capital of L'Aquila prov. and of Abruzzi, central Italy, on the Pescara River. It is an agricultural and industrial center, and a summer resort. A motorway that connects it with Rome is being extended to the Adriatic coast. Manufactures include building materials, machinery, and electronic equipment. L'Aquila is situated at the foot of the Gran Sasso d'Italia mountain group and is a popular base for mountain climbing. Built around a castle (13th–16th cent.), it rose to importance in the 13th cent. and later became the second city of the kingdom of Naples. However, the city's influence declined during the wars of the 16th cent. Despite several devastating earthquakes L'Aquila has retained its medieval fortifications and a number of impressive old buildings, including St. Bernardino's Basilica (15th–16th cent.). There is a university in the city.

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books on: LAquila  - 127 results

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The Regions of Italy: A Reference Guide to History and Culture
Book by Roy Domenico; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Italy--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
LAQUILA PROVINCIAL PROFILE . Area: 1,944 sq...304,221 province , 69,233 city . LAquila province contains 108 communes. The province...near Avezzano. HISTORY . The province of LAquila was settled by the Sabines before the rise...
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Women's Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics
Book by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Agatha Beins; Rutgers University Press, 2005
Subjects: Women's Studies, Women's Studies--United States
...for E-Education, SSGRR 2000w: ICAI, LAquila, Italy, January 2000, CD-ROM. 22...School Framework, SSGRR 2000s: ICAI, LAquila, Italy, August 2000, CD-ROM; D...Is It Desirable? SSGRR 2000s: ICAI, LAquila, Italy, August 2000, CD-ROM. See...
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The Medieval Gospel of Nicodemus: Texts, Intertexts, and Contexts in Western Europe
Book by Zbigniew Izydorczyk; Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1997
Subjects: Gospel Of Nicodemus--Versions
...of the Disciplinati of San Tommaso of LAquila was compiled during the second half of...facilitated the speaking of parts. In LAquila the devozione was no longer a ritual...between the Perugian Harrowing lauda and the LAquila devozione for Easter will bring this into...
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Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425 : Italy, France, and Flanders
Book by Samuel K. Cohn Jr.; Harvard University Press, 2006
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval, Revolutions--Europe--History, Social Change--Europe--History
...outside Genoa, another in the hinterland of LAquila, and the other three in mountainous zones...for a peasant uprising in the contado of LAquila around 1267. We are told only that the...destroyed all the castles around the city of LAquila, but we are not informed why or even...
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Dictionary of European Proverbs
Book by Emanuel Strauss; Routledge, 1994
Subjects: Proverbs, European
...mosques Portuguese: as aguias nao cacam moscas Italian: a). laquila non mangia mosche b). laquile non fanno guerra ai ranocchi Bolognese: a). laquila en ciapa mosch b). laquila en magna mosch Sardinian: sabbilastru non si trattenet a cazziare...
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journal articles on: LAquila  - 21 results

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Holy Man of the Abruzzi and the Limitations of Papal Power
Journal article by John Eastman; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 91, 2005
Subjects: Articles, Personal profiles, Peter Celestine V (Peter of Morrone) (1210-1296), Popes
...Salomone, translated by Anna Maria Voci. (LAquila: Edizioni Celestiniane. 2004. Pp. vii...the meantime had arrived, left Sulmona for LAquila. On July 27 or 28, he set foot in LAquila, his first stop being his monastic house S...
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Building Italian Regional Identity in Toronto: Using Space to Make Culture Material
Journal article by Nicholas Harney; Anthropologica, Vol. 44, 2002
Subjects: Immigrants, Italian Canadians, Social conditions, Toronto Ontario Canada
...from towns in the mountain areas of LAquila, and Avezzano and still others who...seen from the cities of Teramo or LAquila, the Maiella of the Marone chain...from Chieti and Sulmona? From the LAquila side one can see two rock formations...
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In Utero Exposure to Di-(2-Ethylhexyl)phthalate and Duration of Human Pregnancy
Journal article by Giuseppe Latini, Claudio De Felice, Giuseppe Presta, Antonio Del Vecchio, Irma Paris, Fabrizio Ruggieri, Pietro Mazzeo; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 111, 2003
...at the Department of Chemistry of the University of LAquila, an institution certified in agreement with the International...Chemical Engineering and Materials, University of LAquila, LAquila, Italy Address correspondence to G. Latini, Division...
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Financial Crises and Civil Society
Journal article by Claire R. Kelly; Chicago Journal of International Law, Vol. 11, 2011
Subjects: Costs, Failure, International finance, Regulation of financial institutions
...World Bank Food Security Trust Fund following the G8 Summit in LAquila, Italy in July, 2008. 185 The G8 articulated five principles...commitments."186 The G-20 committed to these principles in its LAquila Summit. 18/ G. Other Areas of Concern Financial crises touch...
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On Whether Aquinas's Ipsum Esse Is "Platonism" (1)
Journal article by Stephen L. Brock; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 60, 2006
Subjects: Aquinas on Being (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Kenny, Anthony--Criticism and interpretation, Platonism--Research, Platonists--Research, Thomas Aquinas, Saint--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...come ipsum esse," in Enrico Berti, Studi Aristotelici (LAquila: Japadre Editore, 1975), 347-52; "Le probleme de la...hereafter "PS"), in Enrico Berti, Studi Aristotelici (LAquila: Japadre Editore, 1975), 183-4. For the most part I...
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Data in the Dock
Magazine article by Michael Brooks; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, October 10, 2011
Subjects: Earthquake prediction, L'Aquila, Italy (City), L'Aquila, Italy Earthquake, 2009, Manslaughter--Cases, Negligence--Cases, Physicists--Cases, Physicists--Practice
...assessing earthquake threats at nearby LAquila. Unfortunately for the six earthquake...people dead when an earthquake struck LAquila on 6 April 2009. No one is claiming that...became too relaxed. The advice of the LAquila Six was motivated partly by discomfort...
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The Art of Light and Rhythm
Magazine article by Nora Lee; American Cinematographer, Vol. 68, May 1987
...Europe and the United States gathered in LAquila, Una dtta in Cinema, for a workshop...kind of coherent way and this seminar in LAquila gave me the opportunity to start to force...with. I will definitely come back to LAquila because this is a unique opportunity to...
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Crowding Round
Magazine article by Erin Fitzgerald; The World Today, Vol. 65, August 2009
Subjects: Climate change, Economic growth, Industrialized nations, Regulation of financial institutions
...inMuskoka, acknowledged at the Italian LAquila summit that the G8 is not representative...five has grown exponentially - and in LAquila, the G8 and the G5 issued a joint declaration...relevance were evident to the attendees at LAquila. The Italian presidency failed to delineate...
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L'Aquila's Earthquake Reveals Italy's Deadly Building Standard
Magazine article by Joseph Rykwert; The Architectural Review, Vol. 225, June 2009
Subjects: Earthquakes--Casualties, Earthquakes--Italy
...150,000 people. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED LAquila, the capital of the Abruzzo region...harvest of deaths, as has happened now in LAquila. As the tent-town to shelter the displaced...to move the forthcoming G8 meeting to LAquila, causing fury in Sardinia where it was...
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Castle in Italy Is Seminar Scene
Magazine article by Jean Turner; American Cinematographer, Vol. 67, April 1986
...set ever contrived. It all happened in LAquila, Italy, in December of 1985. Though...The purpose of gathering each year in LAquila is to perpetuate interest in filmmaking...change for the better. The festival in LAquila is dedicated to imparting knowledge and...
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newspaper articles on: LAquila  - 329 results

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Angel of L'Aquila; Efforts to Help Quake Ravaged City
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), October 26, 2009
Subjects: Earthquakes
Angel of LAquila; Efforts to Help Quake Ravaged City...earthquake rocked the Italian city of LAquila claiming the lives of more than 300 people...to ease the suffering of the people of LAquila and the 57 surrounding villages caught...
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My Debt to Italy's Quake Town; Wirral PoW Saved by L'Aquila Residents in WW2
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), April 8, 2009
Subjects: Local finance, Prisoners of war
...Italys Quake Town; Wirral PoW Saved by LAquila Residents in WW2. Byline: LIAM MURPHY...the earthquakedevastated Italian town of LAquila. Pat Joness husband, Don, had been...forces during World War Two and held near LAquila until he escaped into the nearby mountains...
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Musician Caught in L'Aquila Tragedy
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), April 8, 2009
Subjects: Musicians
Musician Caught in LAquila Tragedy. THE Queens Master of Music was caught up in the Italian earthquake. The villa where Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was staying...
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Musician Caught in L'Aquila Tragedy
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), April 8, 2009
Subjects: Musicians
Musician Caught in LAquila Tragedy. THE Queens Master of Music was caught up in the Italian earthquake. The villa where Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was staying...
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At Least 150 Die as They Sleep When Worst Earthquake in Years Rips through Central Italy
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), April 7, 2009
...blocks of buildings the medieval city of LAquila and the surrounding area early yesterday...collapsed building, part of the University of LAquila, tearful young people huddled together...damaged or destroyed, officials said. LAquila Mayor Massimo Cialente said about 100...
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encyclopedia articles on: LAquila  - 3 results

 
 
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L'Aquila
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LAQUILA or LAquila degli Abruzzi la kwela da lye abroot tse, city (1991 pop. 66,813), capital of LAquila prov. and of Abruzzi , central Italy, on the Pescara River. It is...
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Abruzzi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...bordering on the Adriatic Sea in the east. LAquila is the capital of the region, which is divided into Chieti, LAquila, Pescara, and Teramo provs. (named...There are universities at Chieti and LAquila...
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Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...5 billion compensation package. Several hundred people died in Apr., 2009, in a earthquake whose epicenter was near LAquila, Abruzzi; damage was estimated at euro12 million ($15.9 billion). Bibliography A bibliography of the early period and...


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