Senigallia (or Sinigaglia, probably from a later Roman corruption of a name referring to the tribe of the Senones) is a comune and port town on Italy's Adriatic coast, in Ancona Province (43°43′ N 13°13′ E). Senigallia is built at sea-level, and had 41,334 inhabitants at the 2003 census. The Senones were a Celtic people of Gallia Celtica, who in the time of Julius Caesar inhabited the district which now includes the departments of Seine-et-Marne, Loiret and Yonne. ... In Italy, the commune (comune, plural comuni) is the basic administrative unit of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township. ... Ancona Province Coat of Arms Ancona is a province in the Italy. ...
It was the second easternmost of the five cities of the medieval Adriatic duchy of Pentapolis, east of Fano and west of Ancona. A Pentapolis, from the Greek words penta five and polis city(-state) is geographic and/or institutional grouping of five cities. ... Fano (estimated 2003 population 58,041) is a town and [comune]] of the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region of Italy. ... Ancona is a city and a seaport in the Marche, a region of northeastern Italy, population 100,507 (2001). ...
Senigallia is the birthplace of Giovanni Maria cardinal Mastai-Ferretti (Pope Pius IX). Blessed Pope Pius IX, born Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti (May 13, 1792 – February 7, 1878), was pope for a record pontificate (not counting the Apostle St. ...
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"Sinigaglia" — article on the Catholic diocese, from the New Advent Catholic Encyclopædia
Sinigaglia was (1474) given in fief to Giovanni della Rovere, a nephew of Sixtus IV.
Sinigaglia, which had thrown open its gates to Caesar Borgia, was the scene of the celebrated treachery by which Borgia rid himself of his enemies, the petty lords of the Romagna.
Sinigaglia was the birthplace of Pius IX and B. Gherardo di Serra (fourteenth century).
In December, 1502, Sinigaglia, which had thrown open its gates to Caesar Borgia, was the scene of the celebrated treachery by which Borgia rid himself of his enemies, the petty lords of the Romagna.
Sinigaglia was the birthplace of Pius IX and B. Gherardo di Serra (fourteenth century).
Under Bishop Antonio Colombella (1438), an Augustinian, Sigismondo Malatesta, lord of Sinigaglia, angered by his resistance to the destruction of certain houses, caused the cathedral and the episcopal palace to be demolished.
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