Tolfa is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Rome, in the Lazio region of central Italy; it lies to the ENE of Civitavecchia by road. It is...
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The Monti della Tolfa (or Tolfa Mountains) are a volcanic group in the Anti-Apennines of the northern part of the Lazio region of Central Italy. They...
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fixative for dyeing fabrics. Since alum was mined in only one area in Europe (Tolfa, Italy), it was a scarce commodity and therefore especially valuable to...
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formula KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6. It was first observed in the 15th century at Tolfa, near Rome, where it was mined for the manufacture of alum. First called...
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Medici additionally benefited from the discovery of vast deposits of alum in Tolfa in 1433. Alum is essential as a mordant in the dyeing of certain cloths...
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for culture and youth policies at Tolfa in 1997. In 2001, at the age of 24, Battilocchio was elected mayor of Tolfa and remained in office until 2011...
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Scipione de Tolfa (died 1595) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Acerenza e Matera (1593–1595) and Archbishop of Trani (1576–1593)...
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the following municipalities: Bracciano, Canale Monterano, Oriolo Romano, Tolfa. "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian...
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the church at Tolfa, Tierp Municipality, Uppland, Sweden. Unknown painter, 1503. Angel with nyckelharpa, fresco in the church at Tolfa, Tierp Municipality...
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the Tuscan Maremma), a coastal plain interrupted at Civitavecchia by the Tolfa Mountains (616 m). The central section of the region is occupied by the...
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approximately 2,100 square kilometres (810 sq mi). It is bordered by the Tolfa and Sabatini mountains to the north, the Alban Hills to the southeast, and...
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borders the following municipalities : Blera, Manziana, Oriolo Romano, Tolfa and Vejano. Giardini Botanici di Stigliano Ruins of the former village of...
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gardener and a cook in his hometown at the house and was later sent to Tolfa to serve as the infirmarian where he remained from 1694 to 1697. During...
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and monopolized by Genoa before the discovery of alum sources in Italy at Tolfa. First the Roman Curia in 1462, and then Lorenzo and the Medici Bank less...
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States and the Kingdom of Naples, as well as that of the alum excavated in Tolfa, Agnato and Ischia di Castro. Alum was an essential mordant in the textile...
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Cosimo meets Donatello along the Canopus. Borgo di Rota, a frazione of Tolfa, is the set for Francesco Sforza's army camp and the village where Lorenzo...
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Collegio Romano had various provisional centres. In 1560, Vittoria della Tolfa, Marchesa della Valle, donated her family isola, an entire city block and...
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Ripa Calbana (Emilia-Romagna), Cetona and Saturnia (Tuscany), Monti della Tolfa (Lazio), Pianello di Genga and Ancona (Marche), Ortucchio (Abruzzo), Timmari...
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dell'Aniene Lucretili Sabini and, in addition to the mountainous regions of the Tolfa and Monti Sabatini to the north-west, the area of the mountains Tiburtini...
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Alban Hills, Monti Sabatini, Monti Cimini, Monti Volsini, and Monti della Tolfa. The first two considered dormant, the others (despite an alleged eruption...
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wealthy trading town derived originally from the iron-ore mines in the Tolfa Hills. It had three sea ports including Pyrgi, connected to Caere by a road...
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Monti Sabatini Monti Sabini Monte Soratte Monte Terminillo Monti della Tolfa Monti Volsini Monte Cassino Monte Abate Monte Altino Monte Appiolo Maschio...
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Group Russia Meager Group Canada Milbanke Sound Group Canada Monti della Tolfa Italy Mount Edziza volcanic complex Canada Mount Raiden Volcanic Group Japan...
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Suffering from Alzheimer's for some time, Murgia died in a nursing home in Tolfa on 20 August 2010, the last survivor of the male protagonists of I soliti...
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final gunfight between Django and Jackson's men was filmed in Canalone di Tolfa, near the Roman Lazio area. Filming concluded by late February 1966. Unlike...
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6th century BC Umbrian Text painted on the handle of a krater found near Tolfa c. 550 BC Taymanitic Esk 168 and 177 The Taymanitic script is mentioned...
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September, shooting of Salvo D'Acquisto and 1 October, shooting of 3 civilians) Tolfa (10 October, shooting of 12 civilians) Mentana (27 October, shooting of...
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advantage from the discovery of mines of alum in the papal territory at Tolfa, c. 1459. However, France was estranged; the Duke of Burgundy broke his...
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in Veneto region, Bismantova in Emilia-Romagna and near the Monti della Tolfa, north of Rome. Various authors, such as Marija Gimbutas, associated this...
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Century BC was influenced by its control of mineral resources located in the Tolfa Hills to the south of the city and midway to the Caeretan port of Pyrgi...
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