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AVELLINO , a See also:city and episcopal see of See also:Campania, See also:Italy, the See also:capital of the See also:province of Avellino,1150 ft. above See also:sea-level, 28 m. See also:direct and 59 M. by See also:rail E.N.E. of See also:Naples, at the See also:foot of See also:Monte Vergine. Pop. (1901) 23,760. There are ruins of the See also:castle constructed in the 9th or loth See also:century, in which the antipope Anacletus II. crowned See also:Count See also:Roger II. See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Sicily and See also:Apulia. AvelIino is the junction of lines to See also:Benevento and Rocchetta S. See also:Antonio. The name is derived from the See also:ancient Abellinum, the ruins of which See also:lie 4' M. See also:north-See also:east, See also:close to the See also:village of Atripalda, and consist of remains of city walls and an See also:amphitheatre in See also:opus reticulatum, i.e. of the See also:early imperial See also:period, when Abellinum appears to have been the See also:chief See also:place of a tribe, to which belonged also the See also:independent communities of the A bellinates cognomine Protropi among the See also:Hirpini, and the Abellinates cognominati See also:Marsi among the Apulians (Nissen, Italische See also:Land eskunde, ii.822). It See also:lay on the boundary of Campania and the territory of the Hirpini, at the junction of the roads from See also:Nola (and perhaps also from See also:Suessula) and Salernum to Beneventum.
The Monte Vergine (4165 ft.) lies 4 M. to the N.W. of Avellino; upon the See also:summit is a See also:sanctuary of the Virgin, founded in 1119, which contains a miraculous picture attributed to S. See also:Luke (the greatest festival is on the 8th of See also:September). The See also:present See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church is See also:baroque in See also:style, but contains some See also:works of See also:art of earlier periods. The important archives have been transported to Naples. (T.
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