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War of the Sicilian Vespers en · PROPN

Meanings

1. (historical) A war between the Crowns of Aragon and Angevin which was triggered by the Sicilian Vespers rebellion of 1282 and resulted in the division of the Kingdom of Sicily, with Aragon taking the island while Angevin retained the peninsular territories.
   • 1999, Donald J. Kagay, Donald Kagay, L. J. Andrew Villalon (editors), The Circle of War in the Middle Ages, Boydell & Brewer (The Boydell Press), page xiv, In the last of this section's papers, Lawrence Mott deals with the emergence of the Crown of Aragon as a Mediterranean power during the War of the Sicilian Vespers (1282-1302).
   • The resulting War of the Sicilian Vespers would endure for the next twenty years and would involve almost every part of the Mediterranean in some way. 2015, Charles D Stanton, Medieval Maritime Warfare, Pen & Sword Books, page 136:
   • In addition to the Hohenstaufens, the Aragonese were also targets of French venom after the conclusion of the War of the Sicilian Vespers. 2011, Michael A. Ryan, A Kingdom of Stargazers, Cornell University Press, page 48:

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Relateds

Sicilies · Kingdom of Naples · Kingdom of Trinacria

Synonyms

War of the Vespers

Translations (7)

et vespri sõda (war between the Crowns of Aragon and Angevin) · et Sitsiilia vespri sõda (war between the Crowns of Aragon and Angevin) · ca Guerra de Sicília (war between the Crowns of Aragon and Angevin) · pl nieszpory sycylijskie (war between the Crowns of Aragon and Angevin) · it guerre del Vespro (war between the Crowns of Aragon and Angevin) · el Πόλεμος του Σικελικού Εσπερινού (war between the Crowns of Aragon and Angevin) · ca Guerra de les Vespres Sicilianes (war between the Crowns of Aragon and Angevin)