MOLISE

mōlēˈzā, region (1991 pop. 330,900), 1,714 sq mi (4,439 sq km), S central Italy, bordering on the Adriatic Sea in the east. Campobasso is the capital of the region, which is divided into the provinces of Campobasso and Isérnia. Mostly mountainous, Molise is crossed by the Apennines; there is a narrow coastal strip. The main occupation in the generally poor region is farming; cereals, pigs, and sheep are raised. Molise's few industries include the processing of food and the manufacture of clothing. Molise was conquered by the Romans in the 4th cent. b.c. After the fall of Rome it came under the Lombard duchy of Benevento (6th–11th cent.). From the 12th cent., it shared the history of Abruzzi.

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books on: Molise  - 199 results

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Emigration in a South Italian Town: An Anthropological History
Book by William A. Douglass; Rutgers University Press, 1984
Subjects: Agnone (Italy)--Economic Conditions, Agnone (Italy)--History, Agnone (Italy)--Social Conditions, Italians--Foreign Countries--Emigration And Immigration, Italy--Emigration And Immigration
...2.1 Region of the Alto Molise 10...why transatlantic emigration from the Molise essentially began in the town of Agnone...question, Agnone, is in the region of the Molise. But today, after a century of emigration...
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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
...12. MOLISE 221...southwest by Lazio, and on the south by Molise. The University Gabriele DAnnunzio, named...corner, along its borders with Lazio and Molise. Some of the reserve lies in those two...
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From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples of the Central Apennines
Book by Emma Dench; Clarendon Press, 1995
Subjects: Apennines (Italy)--History, Greece--Ethnic Relations, Italic Peoples--Cultural Assimilation, Italic Peoples--Italy--Apennines, Rome--Ethnic Relations
...Samnium 1991 Samnium: archeologia del Molise Rome SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum...modern Italian regions of Abruzzo and Molise. The story of the development of interest...Culture adriatiche antiche dAbruzzo e di Molise"; Rome, 1978 , i for the large-scale...
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Italian Politics: The Stalled Transition
Book by Mario Caciagli, David I. Kertser; Westview Press, 1996
Subjects: Elections--Italy, Italy--Politics And Government--1976-
...Comunista. In four cases Lazio, Abruzzo, Molise, and Puglia it stretched from Popolari...Lombardia Masi for the Patto Segni and in Molise Veneziale for AD , was numerically less...1 2* - 8 Molise - - - - - - - - 1...
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John Fante: A Critical Gathering
Book by Stephen Cooper, David Fine; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999
Subjects: Fante, John--1909---Criticism And Interpretation--Congresses, Italian Americans In Literature--Congresses
...of a great pitcher is desire, Dominic Molise muses (1933 Was A Bad Year,1985, 60...American culture. The protagonist, Dominick Molise, attempts to separate himself from his...protagonist of My Dog Stupid, Henry J. Molise, is a rela- tively successful novelist...
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journal articles on: Molise  - 27 results

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A Shift-Share Method for the Analysis of Regional Fertility Change: An Application to the Decline in Childbearing in Italy, 1952-1991
Journal article by Rachel Franklin, David A. Plane; Geographical Analysis, Vol. 36, 2004
Subjects: Fertility
...to this analysis. Campania and Abruzzi/Molise also had positive results for D.sup.rate...Abruzzi/Molise -52.0 -15.9 -16...Abruzzi/Molise -21.0 -13.3...
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The Poetry of "Limited" Exile and Its Revealing Trek Among Italy's Small Presses
Journal article by Giose Rimanelli; World Literature Today, Vol. 71, 1997
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...1993 ) and the verse collections Moliseide ( 1992 ), I rascenije ( 1996...Casacalenda, our little town in the Molise region, writes to me in this guise, as...call Nicola Iacobacci of Toro, in the Molise region, a man with a poetic vein which...
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Giose Rimanelli: Prose and Verse, Italian and English
Journal article by Mark Axelrod; World Literature Today, Vol. 71, 1997
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...his lofty window on the steep cliffs of Roccamandolfi, in Molise, my dear friend and literary critic Sebastiano Martelli can...short while ago in Detroit, Michigan, far from Casacalenda, Molise: our homeland." There is not only a sense of a poetics of place...
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Translating Dialect Literature
Journal article by Luigi Bonaffini; World Literature Today, Vol. 71, 1997
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...poets. He coedited Dialect Poetry from Molise ( 1993 ) and has just fin ished...English. Rimanelli recently published Moliseide , 22 a book of poems in the Molisan...first stanza of the first poem in Moliseide : Quanne tezziccche a i vrite du penziere...
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The Effect of Interaction Levels on Student Performance: A Comparative Analysis of Web-Mediated versus Traditional Delivery
Journal article by Lowell M. Glenn, Christopher G. Jones, Jeff E. Hoyt; Journal of Interactive Learning Research, Vol. 14, 2003
...Distance and Open Learning Scales (Harrison, Seeman, Behm, Saba, Molise, Williams, 1991) and the Dimensions of Distance Education...28-32. Harrison, P. J., Seeman, B. J., Behm, R., Saba, F., Molise, G., Williams, M. D. (1991). Development of a distance education...
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The Virtuous Oil
Magazine article by Corby Kummer; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 274, August 1994
Subjects: Olive oil--Purchasing
...steeped in oil can shorten the oils life. An exception to the rule, though, is the fragrant Granverde, a premium oil from the Molise region: the oil maker, Marina Colonna, has revived an old tradition by pressing olives with lemons. It isnt like other flavored...
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Taking to the Hills: Archaeologists in Italy Are Uncovering Fascinating Evidence about the Origins of Italy's Medieval Hilltop Villages to Create a New and Compelling Picture of the Circumstances That Brought Them into Being, Says Richard Hodges
Magazine article by Richard Hodges; History Today, Vol. 56, February 2006
Subjects: Archaeologists--Behavior, Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy, Excavations (Archaeology)--Location, Italian history, 476-1492, Italy--History, Villages--History
...Carolingians who sought a port on the Adriatic. No less grandiose in transformation was the abbey of San Vincenzo al Volturno in Molise, today a backwater south of the Abruzzi mountains. Here, echoing the picture found in Tuscany, the tiny eighth-century abbey...
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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
...seemed improbable when I launched the excavations of San Vincenzo al Volturno (Castel San Vincenzo, in the province of Isernia, Molise) in 1980, that any trace of this sack might be found. Historical events, with the notable exceptions of the sack of Persepolis...
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Italy Turns Rightwards
Magazine article by Mark Gilbert; Contemporary Review, Vol. 265, July 1994
Subjects: Elections--Analysis, Italy--Elections
...DCs decline is emphasized by a look at the vote for Segnis Pact for Italy and the Partito Popolare in regions such as Venetia, Molise and Basilicata. The old DC used to get 45-50 per cent in these regions; in 1994 its far more salubrious heirs struggled to reach...


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newspaper articles on: Molise  - 12 results

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World on a Plate
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), November 24, 2007
...restaurants mixing Welsh cuisine with a firm Italian stamp. "Umberto came to Cardiff in 1953 from Campo Basso, the capital city of the Molise region in Italy, and he headed to the labour exchange for employment at the steelworks," said Ann. "He worked there until 1959...
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Regional Cuisines a Specialty at Clementi's
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 12, 2008
...that aims to be more ambitious than most. That is to say, varied regional Italian cuisine from Emilia-Romagna to Lombardy, Molise, Abruzzo and Calabria is represented under one roof. Clementis is not a glamorous place, mind you, but its definitely a nice-enough-for-company...
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WHO'S BEING TAKEN FOR A RIDE? Two for the Road: The Princes, Raising Money for Charity Sentebale, Which Harry Set Up to Help the Most Deprived Children in Lesotho
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 25, 2008
...yard. He jokingly poked his tongue out at Molise, a charming little boy of five, who giggled...tears in her eyes, and as Mojabeng and Molise played beside her, she added: It is so...impoverished children of Africa, like Molise and Mojabeng..
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The Discerning Drinker
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 2, 2009
...masses of zesty lime fruit: very good. Biblos Falanghina 2008, Molise (Oddbins, pounds sterling9.99) Falanghina is one of Italys most...grapes: this one comes from the obscure southern province of Molise. Fragrant and complex, with floral aromas and ripe, sweet tangerine...
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When Seeing Red Is a Delicious Deal
Newspaper article by Paul Lukacs; The Washington Times, February 4, 1998
Subjects: Italy
...Chianti selling for $20 and Barolo for $50, a $10 aglianico from Molise - a region few American consumers have ever heard of - begins...Italys best grape. This rendition, from the remote region of Molise on the Adriatic coast, tastes rich and deep. Its full of black...
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encyclopedia articles on: Molise  - 7 results

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Molise
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MOLISE mole za, region (1991 pop. 330,900), 1,714 sq mi (4...provinces of Campobasso and Isernia. Mostly mountainous, Molise is crossed by the Apennines; there is a narrow coastal...region is farming; cereals, pigs, and sheep are raised. Molises few industries include the processing of food and the manufacture...
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Campobasso
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CAMPOBASSO kam pobas so, city (1991 pop. 50,941), capital of Molise and of Campobasso prov., S central Italy. It is an agricultural and industrial center. Manufactures include cement, soap, textiles...
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Mezzogiorno
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...MEZZOGIORNO met sojor no, region of S Italy. The Mezzogiorno comprises the modern Italian regions of Abruzzi , Campania , Molise , Puglia, Basilicata , Calabria , and the islands of Sicily and Sardinia . The term Mezzogiorno, meaning midday in...
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Volturno
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VOLTURNO voltoor no, chief river of S Italy, 109 mi (175 km) long, rising in the Apennines of Molise and flowing SE, then SW through Campania, past Capua, to the Tyrrhenian Sea. On its banks Guiseppe Garibaldi defeated (1860) the...
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Naples, Kingdom Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Italian peninsula south of the former Papal States. It comprised roughly the present regions of Campania , Abruzzi , Molise , Basilicata , Apulia , and Calabria . Naples was the capital. In the 11th and 12th cent. the Normans under Robert...
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