Apollonia
The name of several Greek cities. The chief of these was in Illyria, founded c.600 bc where the river Aous enters the coastal plain, with relatively easy communications across the ...
Cyrenaica
(Κυρήνη). The Roman province of Cyrenaica comprised the plateau of Djebel Akhdar on the east coast of Libya. Under Diocletian it was divided into two provinces: Libya Superior or Pentapolis ...
Lombards
A member of a Germanic people who invaded Italy in the 6th century, and who settled in what became Lombardy. The name of this people comes from Italian lombardo, representing late Latin Langobardus, ...
marches
The Marches (Italian Marche) are the modern name for a region of Italy extending along the Adriatic side of the Appennines, between Romagna and the Abruzzi. This mountainous and compartmentalized ...
Pentapolis Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
The term “Pentapolis” (union of five towns) originally designated Palestine at the time of Abraham (Wis 10, 6). In Byzantine
Pentapolis Reference library
Thomas S. Brown and R. Bruce Hitchner
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
(Πεντάπολις, “Five Cities”), name applied to two groups of cities, one in Italy, the other in North Africa.
Pentapolis in Italy...
Pesaro
During the Renaissance, the Italian city of Pesaro was one of the most important centres of maiolica production. Important patrons included the Sforza family and Isabella d’Este, who decorated her ...
