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War of the Sicilian Vespers

1282 CE – 1302 CE · 20 years

A popular uprising against French Angevin rule in Sicily sparked a twenty-year war that split the Kingdom of Sicily and reshaped the balance of power in the Mediterranean.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Kingdom of Aragon, Sicilian rebels
  • Angevin Kingdom of Naples, Papacy

Key moments

Defining events in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.

  1. 1282 Sicilian Vespers massacre
  2. 1284 Battle of the Gulf of Naples
  3. 1302 Peace of Caltabellotta

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