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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4976122, member: 110504"]Once again, [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER] knows orders of magnitude more about the historical context than I do, but Naples had been associated with Sicily back to the 12th c., after the Normans conquered Apulia, Calabria, and Salerno, along with Sicily itself. Because of the combination of mainland and island, it was known as 'The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.' As he noted, the fleur de lis refers to the current ruling dynasty, founded by a younger ('cadet') member of the French royal one (...'d'Anjou').[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4976122, member: 110504"]Once again, [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER] knows orders of magnitude more about the historical context than I do, but Naples had been associated with Sicily back to the 12th c., after the Normans conquered Apulia, Calabria, and Salerno, along with Sicily itself. Because of the combination of mainland and island, it was known as 'The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.' As he noted, the fleur de lis refers to the current ruling dynasty, founded by a younger ('cadet') member of the French royal one (...'d'Anjou').[/QUOTE]
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