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Portoferraio

(Encyclopedia)Portoferraio pôrˈtōfār-räˈyō [key], town (1991 pop. 11,042), Tuscany, Italy, on the north coast of Elba Island. The principal port of Elba, it handles most of the iron shipped from the island. ...

Oreopithecus

(Encyclopedia)Oreopithecus ôrˌēōpĭthˈəkəs, –pĭthēˈkəs [key], extinct genus of apes whose fossils have been found in E Africa and Italy. It is best known through specimens preserved in coal deposits. I...

Foligno

(Encyclopedia)Foligno fōlēˈnyō [key], city, in Umbria, central Italy. It is a commercial and industrial ...

Drava

(Encyclopedia)Drava or Drave both: dräˈvə [key], Ger. Drau, Hung. Dráva, river, c.450 mi (720 km) long, rising in the Carnic Alps, N Italy. It flows generally E through S Austria (where it is called the Drau) a...

Dujardin, Karel

(Encyclopedia)Dujardin, Karel düzhärdăNˈ [key], 1622–78, Dutch painter and etcher. He studied with Berchem and in Italy. Dujardin was particularly successful in painting landscapes with figures and animals, ...

Alpes-Maritimes

(Encyclopedia)Alpes-Maritimes älp-märētēmˈ [key], department, SE France, bounded by Italy on the east and the Mediterranean Sea on the south and surrounding the independent princip...

Hanno, Carthaginian statesman

(Encyclopedia)Hanno, fl. 250–200 b.c., Carthaginian statesman, leader of the conservative land-owning party and consistent opponent of the Barca family. His refusal to pay the mercenaries of Hamilcar Barca brough...

Hawkwood, Sir John de

(Encyclopedia)Hawkwood, Sir John de, d. 1394, English soldier. He fought in the French wars of Edward III and was knighted, although it is not known when or where. With his “white company” of mercenaries, he en...

Phocaea

(Encyclopedia)Phocaea fōsēˈə [key], ancient city, W Asia Minor, N of Smyrna (Izmir), in present Turkey. It was northernmost of the Greek Ionian cities. In the 7th cent. b.c. it grew into a maritime state; its c...

Cannae

(Encyclopedia)Cannae kănˈē [key], ancient village, Apulia, SE Italy, scene in 216 b.c. of Hannibal's crushing defeat of the Romans. Hannibal's troops assumed a crescent-shaped formation to meet the Roman troops,...