While many Greek-speaking refugees came to Sicily and Southern Italy during the seventh century, these areas were also subject to continual raids and occupations by Saracens from 652 until the Norman ...

A war game based around the invasion of Sicily in 1943. By July 1943, the tides of war had turned on the Germans. Tunsia fell in May leaving no Axis territory in North Africa. On July 5th ...

In Palermo, Roger II, the Norman king of Sicily from 1130, used the island’s Muslim craftsmen to build his royal chapel, the Cappella Palatina, as well as the city’s cathedral. The royal ...