Gravina
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The following persons:
- Gravina in PugliaGravina in PugliaGravina in Puglia is an Italian municipality in the Southern Italian Province of Bari, site along a river of the same name in the Western Murgia geographical area of Apulia.It is the seat of the Alta Murgia National Park....
in Southern Italy - The GravinaGravina (river)The Gravina is an Italian river that flows into the Bradano. Its source is near Poggiorsini in the province of Bari. It flows southeast and crosses into the province of Matera before emptying into the Bradano a short distance after the Bradano exits Lago di San Giuliano.-References:...
, a river in southern Italy - the Duchy of Gravina and the (Arch)ducal family of Orsini-Gravina
- the Bishopric of Gravina and Montepeloso
- GravinaSpanish cruiser GravinaGravina was a Velasco-class unprotected cruiser of the Spanish Navy.-Technical Characteristics:Gravina was built by the Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. at Leamouth, London in the United Kingdom. Her keel was laid in 1881. She had one rather tall funnel. She had an iron hull...
, a Spanish Navy cruiser of the late 19th century. - Gravina IslandGravina IslandGravina Island is an island in the Gravina Islands of the Alexander Archipelago in southeastern Alaska. It is long and about wide, with a land area of . The island had a population of 50 people at the 2000 census....
, AlaskaAlaskaAlaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
The following persons:
- Dominic GravinaDominic GravinaDominic Gravina was an Italian Dominican theologian.-Life:He entered the Dominican Order at Naples, and made his classical and sacred studies in the order's schools. As professor of theology in the Dominican college of St...
, a Catholic theologian - Giovanni Vincenzo GravinaGiovanni Vincenzo GravinaGiovanni Vincenzo Gravina was an Italian man of letters and jurist. He was born at Roggiano Gravina, a small town near Cosenza, in Calabria....
, Italian jurist and littérateur of the 17th and 18th centuries - Cardinal Gravina 19th century
- Federico Carlos Gravina y Nápoli, Spanish Admiral during the American Revolution and Napoleonic Wars