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RAVENNA, ITALYRavenna is the capital of Ravenna province in North Central Italy, near the Adriatic Sea. It is an agricultural market and industrial centre. Ravenna rose to importance under the Romans who made Classis, its port, their station for fleet-in the North Adriatic. In 402 A. D., Honorius made Ravenna the capital of Western Empire, and it was also the capital of the Ostrogoth kings Odoacer and Theodoric in the 5th and 6th centuries A. D. The Da Polenta family, known as Dante’s hosts, were lords in Ravenna from the 13th to the 15th centuries. Ravenna is famous for its colourful mosaics of the 5th and 6th centuries, and for its Roman and Byzantine buildings. The octagonal baptistery (formerly a Roman bath), the 6th century churches of Sant’ Apollinare Nuovo and Sant’ Apollinare in Classe, the Byzantine Church of San Vitale (consecrated in 547), the tombs of Theodoric and Dante, the Archbishop’s Palace, and the Academy of fine Arts, are located in Ravenna. |
4/12/2010
Press Release - Oswiecim AppealMayor Janusz Marszalek of Oswiecim, Poland, known throughout the world as the site of the infamous Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, has called upon the world’s Head of States, in the name of the one and a half million victims who perished in the furnaces, to use the approaching
United Nations’ Review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May to negotiate steps for a convention for the total abolition of nuclear weapons.
2/10/2010 / New York
Extraordinary IAPMC Executive Board Meeting, New York (April 29 - May 3, 2010)The 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review International Planning Committee, comprised of NGO’s from the United States, Europe and Asia is organizing a day and a half long international conference on Nuclear Abolition, Peace and Disarmament on May 1, 2010, the eve of the NPT Review Conference at the United Nations. The conference will be held in the Riverside Church in New York City and will include between 800 and 1,000 participants.
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