Tag: Palermo

• 070 – No more Normans and Horrid Henry

  1186 – 1197 We sadly saw goodbye to the Norman kings in Sicily and usher in a new era in which the Hohenstaufen, under emperor Henry VI, son of Barbarossa, extend their dominion from the north sea to the centre of the Meditteranean.

  A History of Italy

  December 12, 2019

  Avellino, Clement III, Constance of Siciliy, Frederick Barbarossa, Henry VI, Joan of England, Lionheart, Norman, Palermo, Podcast, Richard I, Salerno, Tancredi of Siciliy, Urban III, Walter of the mill, William I of Siciliy, William II of Siciliy

• 049 – Arrivederci Arabs, the Emirate of Sicily part 1

  We take a look back at the Arab invasione of Sicily starting with the early raids in the seventh century, through the invasion of 827 up to the fall of the Aghlabids in the early tenth century.

  A History of Italy

  April 14, 2019

  Aghlabid, Arab, Emirate, Fatimid, Islam, Kalbid, Marsala, Mazzara, Muslim, Palermo, Pantelleria, Podcast, Sciite, Sicily, Sunni, Syracuse, Taormina

• 017 – Some silly Syracusans, some Saracens and Sicily, plus pirates

  827-840 We leave the north for a while and take a look at Sicily. First we have a quick peak at the start of the Arab raids on the island in the early seventh century and then head back to the ninth when Sicily became an Arab Emirate.

  A History of Italy

  May 16, 2018

  Arab, Byzantine, Harem, Ibiza, Marsala, Muslim, Palermo, Pirate, Podcast, Saracens, Sicily, Syracuse

• 004 – Queen Amalasuntha and Byztantium gets annoyed

  526-540 From the death of Theodoric the great in 526, through the regency of his daughter Amalasuntha, to the end of the first phase of the Gothic war in 540

  A History of Italy

  January 17, 2018

  Amalasuntha, Belisarius, Goth, Gothic, History, Italian, Italy, Justinian, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Podcast, Ravenna, Rimini, Rome, Theodahad, Theodoric, Vitiges