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Aegadian Isles

(Encyclopedia)Aegadian Isles: see Egadi Islands, Italy. ...

Aeolian Islands

(Encyclopedia)Aeolian Islands: see Lipari Islands, Italy. ...

Stabiae

(Encyclopedia)Stabiae: see Castellammare di Stabia, Italy. ...

Alto Adige

(Encyclopedia)Alto Adige: see Trentino–Alto Adige, Italy. ...

Hazzard, Shirley

(Encyclopedia)Hazzard, Shirley, 1931–2016, Australian-American novelist and short-story writer, b. Sydney. Educated in Australia, she lived in Hong Kong, Italy, and New Zealand before settling in the United State...

Jones, Inigo

(Encyclopedia)Jones, Inigo ĭnˈĭgōˌ [key], 1573–1652, one of England's first great architects. Son of a London clothmaker, he was enabled to travel in Europe before 1603 to study paintings, perhaps at the exp...

Zog

(Encyclopedia)Zog zŭk [key], 1895–1961, king of Albania. Originally Ahmet Muhtar Bej Zogolliu (later Albanianized to Zogu), he came from a Muslim family and served in the Austrian army in World War I. He became ...

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