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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">IV3NVN will be
active from Pantelleria Island (IOTA AF-018) in CQ WW WPX CW Contest
24-25 May 2014 as<STRONG><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>IY9A<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></STRONG><BR>He will be in SOSB
40m HP Category<BR>Before and after contest he will be active
as IH9/IV3NVN<BR>QSL via IK2ILH , LOTW <BR><IMG
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src="http://dxing.at-communication.com/upload/Image/Pantelleria_IY9A_IH9-IV3NVN_DX-News.jpg"><BR><BR><BR><BR><STRONG>Pantelleria</STRONG><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>(Sicilian:<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><SPAN lang=scn
xml:lang="scn"><I>Pantiddirìa</I></SPAN>), the ancient<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Cossyra</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>(Maltese:<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Qawsra</I>, now<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Pantellerija</I>), is an
Italian island in the Strait of Sicilyin the Mediterranean Sea,
100 km (62 miles) southwest of Sicily and just 60 km (37 miles)
east of the Tunisian coast. Administratively Pantelleria is
a<I>comune</I><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>belonging to
the Sicilian province of Trapani. With an area of 83 square kilometres
(32 sq mi), it is the largest volcanic satellite island of
Sicily.</SPAN></SPAN><BR> </P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Archaeological evidence
has unearthed dwellings and artifacts dated at 35,000 years
ago.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The original population
of Pantelleria did not come from Sicily, and was of Iberian or
Ibero-Ligurian stock. After a considerable interval, during which the
island probably remained uninhabited, the Carthaginians took possession of
it (no doubt owing to its importance as a station on the way to Sicily)
probably about the beginning of the 7th century BC, occupying as their
acropolis the twin hill of San Marco and Santa Teresa, 2 km
(1.2 mi) south of the town of Pantelleria. The town possesses
considerable remains of walls made of rectangular blocks of masonry, and
also of a number of cisterns. Punic tombs have also been discovered, and
the votive terra-cottas of a small sanctuary of the Punic period were
found near the north coast.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Romans occupied the
island as the Fasti Triumphales record in 255 BC, lost it again the next
year, and recovered it in 217 BC. Under the Empire it served as a place of
banishment for prominent persons and members of the imperial family. The
town enjoyed municipal rights.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In 700 the island was
conquered by the Arabs, who named it<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><SPAN lang=ar xml:lang="ar">بنت
الرياح</SPAN><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I><SPAN
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none" class=Unicode
title="ar ALA transliteration">Bint al-Riyāḥ</SPAN></I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>'the daughter of the winds',
which represents the strong winds that arise off the north coast of
Africa. In 1123 Roger of Sicily took the island, and in 1311 an Aragonese
fleet, under the command of Lluís de Requesens, won a considerable victory
here, and his family became princes of Pantelleria until 1553, when the
town was sacked by the Turks. A naval battle took place close to the
island in July 1586 when an armed English merchant fleet of five ships
managed to repel an attack by eleven Spanish and Maltese
galleys.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A Siculo-Arabic dialect
similar to Maltese was the vernacular of the island until the late 18th
century, when it was superseded by Romance Sicilian. However, the modern
Sicilian dialect of Pantelleria contains many Arabic loanwords and most of
the island's place names are of Semitic origin.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Pantelleria's capture
was regarded as crucial to the Allied success in invading Sicily in 1943
because it allowed planes to be based in range of the larger island.
Pantelleria was heavily bombarded, from both air and sea, in the days
before the scheduled invasion, and the garrison finally surrendered as the
landing troops were approaching. The capture of Pantelleria was called
Operation Corkscrew and it played a part as a vital base for Allied
aircraft during Operation Husky.<BR><A
style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,153); TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantelleria">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantelleria</A></SPAN></SPAN></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></BODY></HTML>