[DOC] [TLE] History of Sicily - Wikipedia [PAR] The history of Sicily has been influenced by numerous ethnic groups. It has seen 
Sicily sometimes controlled by external powers  Roman, Vandal ... Although 
today part of the Republic of Italy, it has its own distinct culture. .... Many 
historians have recently argued that the Norman conquest of Islamic Sicily (1060
91) was... [DOC] [TLE] Norman conquest of southern Italy - Wikipedia [PAR] The Norman conquest of southern Italy spanned most of the 11th and 12th 
centuries, involving many battles and independent conquerors. Only later were 
these territories in southern Italy united as the Kingdom of Sicily, which included 
the island of Sicily, the southern third of the Italian Peninsula ... The city and its 
environs were attacked by Saracens from Africa demanding... [DOC] [TLE] Ancient Sicilian History of Ancient Sicily - Medieval Sicilian History of ... [PAR] Most of the history that makes Sicily, its people and culture uniquely 'Sicilian' took 
... The enduring legacy inherited by the world's most conquered island is like no 
.... By 262 BC, the Greeks had begun to make peace with the Romans, who .... In 
440 the Sicilians saw the first Vandal landings on their island under Genseric. [DOC] [TLE] Sicilian Peoples: The Normans - Best of Sicily Magazine - Normans ... [PAR] Can the eclectic medieval experience of the world's most conquered island be a 
... Vandals-Goths ... The Vikings were initially pagans, and their colorful 
mythology has given us ... Like the conquest of England, the Normans' conquest 
of Italy was ... crossed into Sicily at Messina and seized the city from its Saracen 
garrison. [DOC] [TLE] Sicilian Peoples: The Arabs - Best of Sicily Magazine - Moors and ... [PAR] Meet a timeless sisterhood of pious Roman maidens, steadfast Sicilian queens ... 
Vandals-Goths ... Under their administration, the island's population doubled as 
dozens of ... The Arabs, who in medieval times were sometimes called "Saracens
" or ... Though most parts of Sicily were conquered by Arabs, certain areas where
... [DOC] [TLE] Sicilian Peoples: The Byzantines - Best of Sicily Magazine ... [PAR] Can the eclectic medieval experience of the world's most conquered island be a 
lesson for ... Unlike the Roman Empire, converted to Christianity in its final 
centuries but ... Following a brief period of rule by the Vandals and Ostrogoths, 
Sicily, which --at ... Italian society immediately prior the Byzantine conquest had 
actually... [DOC] [TLE] Sicilian Peoples: The Angevins - Best of Sicily Magazine - Angevins ... [PAR] Arab peoples, usually Muslim, who conquered medieval Sicily, Spain and ... with 
so formidable a force as a Holy Roman Emperor who also ruled southern Italy. ... 
was a kingdom in its own right, Charles ruled from Naples, which previously had 
been ... In name, the Sicilian nobility had Norman, Swabian and Lombard roots. [DOC] [TLE] Map - Norman Conquest of Southern Italy [PAR] Mar 3, 2007 ... The Norman conquest of southern Italy, and the Italian part of the Holy Roman ... 
527-565) has Italy reconquered for the Eastern Roman Empire (i.e. ... and 
Lombards follow their own laws; the Italians continue to use Roman law. ... A.D., 
Roger Guiscard's conquest of the island of Sicily from the Saracens. [DOC] [TLE] BBC - History - Ancient History in depth: An Overview of Roman Britain [PAR] Feb 17, 2011 ... Our island has a Roman name, its capital is a Roman city and for centuries (even 
after the Norman Conquest) the .... with six guest-rooms and its own private bath 
suite - for travellers on official business - along the wall. [DOC] [TLE] The Land and People of Sicily - Prehistory and Early Sicilian History ... [PAR] It is the largest and most important island in the Mediterranean, and until the ... 
Sicilians' predecessors (among them the Romans and Normans), it is worth 
bearing in .... peoples who subsequently conquered or colonized the island: 
Phoenicians, ... century had their own mythology and language, their "French" 
grandchildren... [DOC] [TLE] Pirate Coasts of the Mediterranean Sea - JStor [PAR] The Mediterranean Sea has

Question: This island had its own Norman conquest and Roman conquest and Vandal and Saracen
Answer: Sicily