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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Medici additionally benefited from the discovery of vast deposits of alum in Tolfa in 1461. Alum is essential as a mordant in the dyeing of certain cloths...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    of Ferdinando III Orsini, duke of Gravina, and Giovanna Frangipani della Tolfa, from Toritto. A member of the Orsini of Rome, he was the fifth and last...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    (current shrine since 1741) Pope Clement XI Madonna di Cibona 1 June 1704 Tolfa Pope Clement XI Madonna di San Brizio 18 June 1704 Orvieto Cathedral Pope...
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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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  • 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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    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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    in Acquapendente Palio in Bomarzo Palio del Tributo in Priverno Palio of Tolfa last Sunday in August Palio of Sacrofano, Second Sunday in September Corsa...
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    fall of Constantinople, alunite (the source of alum) was discovered at Tolfa in the Papal States (1461). The textile dyeing industry in Bruges, and many...
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    Papacy), but also with managing a certain piece of Papal property: the Tolfa alum mines, an interest they had acquired in 1473 in exchange for forgiving...
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