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Kingdom of Trinacria

Kingdom of Trinacria proper noun: the insular Kingdom of Sicily (from 1302); as distinguished from the peninsular Kingdom of Sicily, now commonly called Kingdom of Naples.

Proper noun

the Kingdom of Trinacria

  1. (historical, informal) The insular Kingdom of Sicily (from 1302); as distinguished from the peninsular Kingdom of Sicily, now commonly called Kingdom of Naples.
    • The Pope, who now maintained his rights to both kingdoms, that of Naples (the continental Sicily), and that of Trinacria (the island), fixed the formula of the oath of allegiance for Frederic, entailed the kingdom of Trinacria, defined the contingencies on which the crown would revert to the Roman...1861, The Rambler, Volume IV, New Series, page 190
    • 1996 [Frank Cass & Co], David Abulafia, The Aragonese Kingdom of Albania, Benjamin Arbel (editor), Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean, 2012, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 8,
      James's letter also makes it plain that the negotiations between the various parties were set on a...

Origin of Kingdom of Trinacria

See Italian Trinacria, the name for Sicily during the classical Greek period.

Questions about Kingdom of Trinacria

What does Kingdom of Trinacria mean?
Kingdom of Trinacria means the insular Kingdom of Sicily (from 1302); as distinguished from the peninsular Kingdom of Sicily, now commonly called Kingdom of Naples.
What part of speech is Kingdom of Trinacria?
Kingdom of Trinacria is a proper noun.

Words near Kingdom of Trinacria in the dictionary

  1. Kingdom of the East Franks
  2. Kingdom of the Iberians
  3. Kingdom of the Netherlands
  4. Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
  5. Kingdom of Tooro
  6. Kingdom of Trinacria
  7. Kingdom of Yemen
  8. Kingdom of Yugoslavia
  9. kingdome
  10. kingdomed
  11. kingdomes

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