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Before 3000 BC : Stone Age tribal groups migrate across the Mediterranean Sea.
440 : Vandals from North Africa invade and capture Sicily
827 : Saracens from North Africa begin their invasion of Sicily
1060 : Normans under Robert and Roger d'Hauteville begin an invasion of Sicily at Messina
The Sicilians revolt against the French.
Byzantine Sicily: 6th - 9th century
The Byzantine influence in Sicily begins with the capture of the island from the Ostrogoths in 535.
From 827 Arabs begin arriving from north Africa, in what will amount to a slow conquest of the island.
Muslim Sicily: 10th - 11th century
The last Byzantine stronghold falls to the Arabs in965, beginning a century of Muslim rule.
Latin Christian came and conquest the island
Norman Sicily: 1091-1194
The first Norman ruler sets a pattern which will characterize Sicily for more than a century. He brought Christianity on the island but remaining tolerant.
440 : Vandals from North Africa invade and capture Sicily
827 : Saracens from North Africa begin their invasion of Sicily
1060 : Normans under Robert and Roger d'Hauteville begin an invasion of Sicily at Messina
The Sicilians revolt against the French.
Byzantine Sicily: 6th - 9th century
The Byzantine influence in Sicily begins with the capture of the island from the Ostrogoths in 535.
From 827 Arabs begin arriving from north Africa, in what will amount to a slow conquest of the island.
Muslim Sicily: 10th - 11th century
The last Byzantine stronghold falls to the Arabs in965, beginning a century of Muslim rule.
Latin Christian came and conquest the island
Norman Sicily: 1091-1194
The first Norman ruler sets a pattern which will characterize Sicily for more than a century. He brought Christianity on the island but remaining tolerant.
Capella Palatina in Palermo: 1132-1189
The small palace chapel in Palermo, with its walls covered in bright pictorial mosaic, is one of the most exquisite buildings of the Middle Ages. Known as the Capella Palatina (Latin for 'palace chapel'), it is begun in 1132 and completed in about 1189.
Sicily was conquered by many waves of migrational populations. So it welcomed many different cultures.
1860 : first unitary government of Sicily and the Italian peninsula since the Roman Empire
By Dorian, Florian and Vivien
The small palace chapel in Palermo, with its walls covered in bright pictorial mosaic, is one of the most exquisite buildings of the Middle Ages. Known as the Capella Palatina (Latin for 'palace chapel'), it is begun in 1132 and completed in about 1189.
Sicily was conquered by many waves of migrational populations. So it welcomed many different cultures.
1860 : first unitary government of Sicily and the Italian peninsula since the Roman Empire
By Dorian, Florian and Vivien