Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
ממלכת שתי הסיציליות
Name (Latin)
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Other forms of name
Regno delle Due Sicilie
Two Sicilies
Due Sicilie
Coordinates
14.25 14.25 40.83333333 40.83333333 (gooearth )
Associated country
Italy
See Also From tracing place name
Naples (Kingdom)
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 168221750
Wikidata: Q180393
Library of congress: no 89019307
Sources of Information
  • Encyc. Brit.(Two Sicilies, Kingdom of the; name sometimes given to the state that united the southern part of the Italian peninsula with the land of Sicily between the mid-15th and the mid-19th centuries. United by the Normans in the 11th cent., the two areas were divided in 1282. In 1443 Alfonso V of Aragon, on reuniting the two portions, took the title of King of the Two Sicilies; this title was sometimes used during the 16th-19th cent.; it became official in 1815 when the administration of both areas was combined)
  • Zella-Milillo, G. Ricchezza pubblica, nazionale, e privata che può ottenersi nel Regno delle Due Sicilie ... 1848.
  • Lippincott(cf. Naples; in 1816, Ferdinand IV merged kingdoms of Sicily and Naples in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; fell in 1860 to Garibaldi, and inc. in 1861 into kingdom of Italy)
  • Encyc. Brit.(Two Sicilies, Kingdom of the; name sometimes given to the state that united the southern part of the Italian peninsula with the land of Sicily between the mid-15th and the mid-19th centuries. United by the Normans in the 11thcent., the two areas were divided in 1282. In 1443 Alfonso V of Aragon, on reuniting the two portions, took the title of King of the Two Sicilies; this title was sometimes used during the 16th-19th cent.; it became official in 1815 when theadministration of both areas was combined)
  • Websters geog.(Sicilies, The Two; Sicily and Naples conquered by Normans 1072-91, who founded kingdom of The Two Sicilies)