Sicily

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In the Godfather Vito said that Sicilians suffered a lot through history

Is that true?

The sea people came from Sicily
atleast some of them

>>1714958
Thapsos?

>>1714959
https://youtu.be/MjuZjHpxUWQ?t=23m54s
The shekelesh
it was the jews

>>1714932
First it was settled by greeks in antiquity, then invaded by moors/arabs in the early middle ages

>>1714973
It was settled way before the Greeks

>>1714932
The Crimea of the West, as in everyone and their mother owned it at one point or another

>>1714991
>Sicily
>West

heh

Syracuse was one of the more based Greek city states.

>>1715055
It's part of the western mediterrenian.

>>1715055
>Sicily
>not west
U wot

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Frederick II tried to make it the center of European culture, and almost suceeded too, but failed because he loved Islam, hated Christianity, and made more or less every other ruler hate him.

>>1715064
southern/eastern culture and heritage

wasn't colonised until after Columbus discovered the new world because ancient sailors only stuck close to the shore.

>>1715071
best Holy Roman emperor ever

>>1715093
Wasn't that Sardinia?

Sicily was settled by Greeks who invented the boat in 700 bc

>>1715112
>Wasn't that Sardinia?

No, but that's where the meme was about.

>>1715071
> failed because he loved Islam, hated Christianity
That's false though. He went into a monastery numerous times and often prayed. He just disliked the idea of papal authority being superior to the emperor's, in the era when it didn't automatically make you a bad Christian yet. The jury was still out on what exactly the papal authority entailed.

>>1714932
Athenians dun goofed over there

>>1715119
Theoretically those islands were settled by they would have had a minuscule population <10000
before the modern era

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The Normans conquered and held it for about a century. They built a lot of shit and were pretty based.

>>1715141
The Arabs built that shit UNDER the Normans, not the "Normans", learn the difference, retard.

>>1714932
Institutionally, it was some of the most advanced countries in medieval Europe. The retention of many Byzantine-Moorish bureaucratic offices by its Norman rulers contributed a lot to a stronk centralized kingdom unmatched in Western Europe during its foundation.

>>1715157
You are so ignorant I'm about to cry

>>1715149

So? Would we have a Monreale Cathedral if there were no Normans in Sicily? There is no need to be upset.

>>1715169
Yes, it is the Arabs who brought civilization to Sicily, not some dirty savage viking fucks.

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>>1715176

Does this image trigger you, mon brown skinned ami?

>>1715185
You retarded fuck, Arabs were so fucking culturally and technologically superior to retarded shit for brains viking fucks.

>>1715190
pipe down, yossuf

>>1715191
Your first post was in the right form, no this one.
"superior to", not "superior than"

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>>1715185
I am very white but even I can't deny the superiority of Islamic culture during this period.

Too bad Wahhabism is a dumpster fire.

>>1715197
Delete this post now

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>>1715141
yes, yes... well done Normans..

HOWEVER

>>1714951
>In Scicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns

I gotta agree. I've heard that scicilian women are ultra-manipulative and aren't ashamed to humiliate a beta husband in public

>>1715133
>Theoretically those islands were settled by they would have had a minuscule population <10000 before the modern era

That's completely wrong.