Although there was hardly any fighting, the encounter is known as the Battle of the Lipari Islands.

The son of Auson was Liparus, whence the Lipari Islands name.

The Romans recognized their weakness in naval power and tactics, especially after the incident of the Lipari Islands.

Some way to the west of Stromboli, and just to the north of Sicily, are the Lipari Islands.

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Travel itineraries in Messina, Taormina and Lipari Islands.

He analyzed several samples from the volcanic fumaroles close to Mount Vesuvius and from the Lipari islands.

The loss of 17 ships at the Lipari Islands from a starting total of 120 ships suggests that Rome had 103 remaining.

Later the officinae of Hephaestus were placed in Sicily and the Lipari Islands, particularly Hiera.

In 260 BC they defeated the fledgling Roman navy at the Battle of the Lipari Islands.

A. Stromboli, a five-square-mile island, is one of the Lipari Islands, also known as the Aeolian Islands.

The Carthaginian navy struck the first blow of the war when a fleet of 20 quinqueremes, loaded with 1,000 soldiers, raided the Lipari Islands.

This turns out to be an off-the-menu favorite of the owner, Giuseppe Bruno, who first ate it on the Lipari Islands, near Sicily.

In 1890, my grandfather, Gaetano Bongiorno, came to New York from the Lipari Islands, off the coast of Sicily.

Thus a sketch about Mr. Moretti's travels on the Lipari Islands off Sicily is followed by one about his successful treatment for cancer.

1462), author of Petit Jehan de Saintre, climbed to the crater of a volcano in the Lipari Islands in 1407, leaving us with his impressions.

The village is also a seaside resort; its port was built in 2003 and provides easy access to the Lipari Islands, being a key element in its tourism infrastructure.

However, the naivety of Scipio Asina got him captured in the Battle of the Lipari Islands, leaving Duilius as senior commander.

Although the first sea engagement of the war, the Battle of the Lipari Islands in 260 BC, was a defeat for Rome, the forces involved were relatively small.

In the Lipari Islands and Hungary there are acid (rhyolitic) tuffs, of pale grey or yellow color, largely composed of lumps and fragments of pumice.

He was afterward Bishop of the Lipari Islands, of Chiapas, and of Popayán, where he died - honoured as a Spanish prelate.

Attalus was obliged to participate in the triumph Honorius celebrated in the streets of Rome in 416, before finishing his days exiled in the Lipari Islands.

'Miscellaneous Observations on the Continent,' 1825; reissued in 1828 as 'Travels in Italy, Sicily, and the Lipari Islands.'

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, 1976: "Aeoliae Insulae (Lipari Islands), Messina, Sicily"

Hephaestus was associated by Greek colonists in southern Italy with the volcano gods Adranus (of Mount Etna) and Vulcanus of the Lipari islands.

Her body was found months later near the Aeolian Islands.

I could make out the purple triangles of other Aeolian islands.

It is believed that these early settlers came over from the Aeolian Islands.

Curbing urban development has been a key to preserving the Aeolian islands in a natural state.

Between the years 1893-96 he published a work of eight volumes on the Aeolian Islands.

Vulcano, another of the Aeolian Islands, last erupted in 1888-1890.

Seafood is popular and the Aeolian islands are famous for their shellfish, especially the spiny lobster.

They were derived from the archaeology of the Aeolian Islands off Sicily.

The next morning the yacht reaches the Aeolian Islands north of Sicily.

The Aeolian Islands can be easily reached from the port of Campora.

The Aeolian Islands are a popular tourist destination in the summer, and attract up to 200,000 visitors annually.

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The remainder of the Carthaginian ships retreated the Aeolian Islands.

I was rescued by an extinct volcano on one of the Aeolian islands, just off the Sicilian coast.

Ports of call include Sicily, Malta and the Aeolian Islands.

Lipari, largest of the Aeolian islands has a delightful port and walled Acropolis.

The present shape of the Aeolian Islands is the result of volcanic activity over a period of 260,000 years.

Take a ferry to the volcanic Aeolian Islands and stay on Lipari

To the Editor: Though I have never visited the Aeolian Islands, they are familiar.

Aeolian Islands image gallery

Lipari, largest of the Aeolian Islands, is a tiny dot in the limpid Mediterranean.

Calabria and the Aeolian Islands (1957)

It is one of the eight Aeolian Islands, a volcanic arc north of Sicily.

Salina, Sicily, the second largest of the Aeolian Islands