war of the sicilian vespers
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.36 in modern English
39
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
4
Syllables
15
Unique Chars
Meaning
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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.
Example Sentences
- "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)."
- "In addition to the Hohenstaufens, the Aragonese were also targets of French venom after the conclusion of the War of the Sicilian Vespers."
- "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."
Inflected Forms
the War of the Sicilian Vespers (canonical)
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Synonyms
War of the Vespers