Charles "Lucky" Luciano was born Salvatore Lucania on November 24, 1897,[6] in Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy.[nb 1] His parents, Antonio Lucania and Rosalia Caffarella, had four other children: Giuseppe (born 1885); Bartolomeo (born 1890); Filippa, or "Fanny" (born 1901); and Concetta (born 1903).[7][8][9]
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A pentapolis (from Greek πεντα- penta-, 'five' and πόλις polis, 'city') is a geographic and/or institutional grouping of five cities. Cities in the ancient world probably formed such groups for political, commercial and military reasons, as happened later with the Cinque Ports in England.
The confederation of Cinque Ports (/sɪŋk pɔːrts/ sink ports)[1] is a historic group of coastal towns in south-east England – predominantly in Kent and Sussex, with one outlier (Brightlingsea) in Essex.[2] The name is Old French, meaning "five harbours", and alludes to the original five members (Hastings, New Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich). At its peak in the Late Middle Ages, the confederation included over 40 members. There is now a total of 14 members: five "head ports", two "ancient towns" and seven "limbs".[3]
The confederation was originally formed for military and trade purposes, but is now entirely ceremonial. The ports lie on the western shore of the English Channel, where the crossing to the European continent is narrowest.
Inhabitants of the Cinque Ports are calledPortsmen.
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The Philistine Pentapolis: Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron, and Gath, all combined to make Philistia.
In the biblical Holy Land, Genesis 14 describes the region where five cities—Sodom, Gomorrah, Zoara, Admah and Zeboim—united to resist the invasion of Chedorlaomer, and of which four were shortly after destroyed.[1]
The Doric—or Dorian Pentapolis: Kos, on the island of the same name in the Aegean Sea; Knidos, in Caria on the west coast of Asia Minor; Lindus, Ialysus and Camirus, all three on Rhodes.
The Phrygian Pentapolis: Eukarpia, Hierapolis, Otrus, Bruzus, and Stectorium.
The Pontic Pentapolis: Apollonia, Callatis, Mesembria, Odessos, and Tomis, all on the Black Sea.
The Western Pentapolis of Cyrenaica: five main Greek colonies that came to be in the Roman province of Libya Superior, the western part of Cyrenaica until Diocletian's Tetrarchy reform in AD 296 (now Libya).[2] The most important was Cyrene and its port Apollonia, Ptolemais (the next capital after Cyrene's destruction by an earthquake), port of Barca (the later Arab provincial capital Barka), Teucheira (modern Tocra) and Berenice (modern Benghazi); also known as the Pentapolis inferior ("lower pentapolis"'). This is the Pentapolis that is referenced in the official title of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
In Italy there were:
an early pentapolis including: Ravenna, Forlì, Forlimpopoli, Classe, Caesarea.
a later, medieval Duchy of the Pentapolis on the Adriatic coast east of Tuscany and north of the duchy of Spoleto, including the port cities (North to South) of Rimini, Pesaro, Fano, Sinigaglia and Ancona.[3] It was part of the core of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna. Later, after the fall of the Exarchate, it was transformed into the March of Ancona
The Cinque Ports in England—the five being Hastings, New Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich.
United States
The Five Towns, on the southwestern shore of New York's Long Island region, is a group of towns comprising the villages of Lawrence and Cedarhurst, the hamlets of Woodmere and Inwood, and "The Hewletts", which consist of the villages of Hewlett Bay Park, Hewlett Harbor and Hewlett Neck and the hamlet of Hewlett.[4]
The Five Boroughs of New York City, which were separately governed city-counties until the 1874 and 1898 annexations.
The Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois (so named before the fifth city, Bettendorf, Iowa, grew in the mid-20th century) that share cultural institutions and infrastructure.
Locally known as "The Five Cities" in San Luis Obispo County, California are Arroyo Grande, Pismo Beach, Shell Beach, Grover Beach, and Oceano.
The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic group of people who lived in the Phoenician city-states along a coastal strip in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon.[5] They developed a maritime civilization which expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core of their culture stretching from Arwad in modern Syria to Mount Carmel.[6] The Phoenicians extended their cultural influence through trade and colonization throughout the Mediterranean, from Cyprus to the Iberian Peninsula.
The Phoenicians directly succeeded the Bronze Age Canaanites
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Statue representing Janus Bifrons in the Vatican Museums
In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus (/ˈdʒeɪnəs/ JAY-nəs; Latin: Ianvs [ˈiaːnʊs]) is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways,[2] passages, frames, and endings.
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John was the youngest son of King Henry II of England and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was nicknamed John Lackland (Norman: Jean sans Terre, lit. 'John without land')[1] because he was not expected to inherit significant lands.
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late 19th century: from Latin, literally ‘light’.
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This masculine name has Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian roots, coming from the Latin name Lucius. Translating to “light” or “shining,”
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The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic Hrōþi- "fame" and berhta- "bright" (Hrōþiberhtaz).
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