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Il Regno di Sicilia (in latino medievale Regnum Siciliae) fu un antico Stato italiano situato nel Sud Italia, esistito dal 1130 al 1816, ovvero fino all'istituzione del Regno delle Due Sicilie .
Il Regno di Sicilia fu un'entità statale medievale e moderna che comprendeva l'isola di Sicilia e, in alcune fasi, anche il Regno di Napoli. Scopri le sue origini, le sue dinastie, le sue rivolte e le sue unioni con altre corone.
Il Regno di Sicilia nel periodo compreso tra il 1735 e il 1816 fu governato dalla dinastia borbonica, a seguito dell'incoronazione (col titolo di rex utriusque Siciliae) il 3 luglio 1735 di Carlo di Borbone nella cattedrale di Palermo, capitale del regno.
Sicilia, Regno di. Dino Carpanetto. Un’isola contesa tra le dinastie europee. Il Regno di Sicilia, costituitosi nell’11° secolo con i Normanni, fu governato da molteplici dinastie (Normanni, Svevi, Angioini, Aragonesi, Asburgo di Spagna, Savoia, Asburgo d’Austria, Borbone) e passò attraverso alterne vicende che lo videro in alcune fasi ...
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Norman conquest
By the 11th century, mainland southern Lombard and Byzantine powers were hiring Norman mercenaries, who were descendants of Vikings in northern France; it was the Normans under Roger I who conquered Sicily, taking it away from the Sicilian Muslims. After taking Apulia and Calabria, Roger occupied Messina with an army of 700 knights. In 1068, Roger I of Sicily and his men defeated the Muslims at Misilmeri but the most crucial battle was the Siege of Palermo, which led to Sicily being completel...
Norman kingdom
The Norman Kingdom was created on Christmas Day, 1130, by Roger II of Sicily, with the agreement of Pope Innocent II. Roger II united the lands he had inherited from his father, Roger I of Sicily. These areas included the Maltese Archipelago, which was conquered from the Arabs of the Emirates of Sicily; the Duchy of Apulia and the County of Sicily, which had belonged to his cousin William II, Duke of Apulia, until William's death in 1127; and the other Norman vassals. Roger declared his suppo...
Hohenstaufen period
In 1197, the accession of Frederick, a child who would also become Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in 1220, greatly affected the immediate future of Sicily. For a land so used to centralised royal authority, the king's young age caused a serious power vacuum. His uncle Philip of Swabia moved to secure Frederick's inheritance by appointing Markward von Anweiler, margrave of Ancona, regent in 1198. Meanwhile, Pope Innocent IIIhad reasserted papal authority in Sicily, but recognised Frederick's...
During the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, the local communities maintained their privileges. The rulers of the Hohenstaufen kingdom replaced the local nobility with lords from northern Italy, leading to clashes and rebellions against the new nobility in many cities and rural communities. These revolts resulted in the destruction of many agrarian areas a...
During the reign of Frederick II (1198-1250), the kingdom had a population of about 2.5 million. During the Hohenstaufen era, the Kingdom had 3 towns with a population of over 20,000 each. After the loss of the northern provinces in 1282 during the Sicilian Vespers and several natural disasters like the 1669 Etna eruption, the population of the Kin...
The high fertility of the land led the Norman kings to bring settlers from neighbouring regions or to resettle farmers to areas where cultivation of land was needed. This led to an increase in agricultural production. The main sources of wealth for the Kingdom of Sicily in that time were its maritime cities, most important of which were the ancient...
The Norman kings in the 12th century used the tari, which had been used in Sicily from 913 as the basic coin. One tari weighed about one gram and was 16+1⁄3 carats of gold. The Arab dinar was worth four tari, and the Byzantine solidus six tari. In the kingdom, one onza was equivalent to thirty tari or five florins. One tari was worth twenty grani. ...
During the Norman reign, several different religious communities coexisted in the Kingdom of Sicily. These included Latin Catholics (Roman Catholics), Greek-rite Catholics (Greek Catholic), Muslims and Jews. Although local religious practices were not interrupted, the fact that Latin Catholics were in power tended to favor Latin Catholicism (Roman ...
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28 feb 2019 · Un articolo che ripercorre le origini, le conquiste e le dinastie del Regno di Sicilia, dal periodo normanno a quello aragonese. Scopri le vicende di Ruggero II, Federico II, Pietro III e gli ultimi sovrani siciliani.
Il Regno di Sicilia fu un antico Stato italiano situato nel Sud Italia, esistito dal 1130 al 1816, ovvero fino all'istituzione del Regno delle Due Sicilie.
