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Murgia (Álava)
Murgia may refer to: Geography *Altopiano delle Murge, a plateau in Apulia, Italy *Alta Murgia National Park, Italy *Murgia, Álava, a village in Basque Country, Spain People *Alessandro Murgia, Italian footballer *Alessio Murgia, Italian footballer *David Murgia, Belgian actor *Madhumita Murgia, writer and journalist *Michela Murgia, Italian novelist *Nicole Murgia, Italian actress *Tiberio Murgia, Italian actor Other *Murgia motion {{disambig, surname Surnames of Italian origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altopiano Delle Murge
The Altopiano delle Murge (Italian for 'plateau of the Murge') is a karst topographic plateau of rectangular shape in southern Italy. Most of it lies within Puglia and corresponds with the sub-region known as Murgia or Le Murge. The plateau lies mainly in the Metropolitan City of Bari and the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, but extends into the provinces of Brindisi and Taranto to the south, and into Matera in Basilicata to the west. The name is believed to originate from the , meaning 'sharp stone'. Geography and geology The Murge plateau covers a surface of some 4,000 km², bordered by the Ofanto river and the Tavoliere delle Puglie to the north, the Adriatic Sea to the northeast, and by the Messapic depression, which separates it from the Salento peninsula, to the south. It is usually divided into Alta Murgia (High Murgia), the highest area, with poorer vegetation, and Bassa Murgia (Lower Murgia), with more fertile land, extensively planted with olive-trees for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alta Murgia National Park
The Parco Nazionale dell'Alta Murgia is a national park in Apulia, southern Italy, established in 2004. It lies in the Murgia geographical area, with its headquarters in the town of Gravina in Puglia, and has an area of 677.39 square kilometres. It is part of a larger Special Protection Area established to protect the grass steppe, lesser kestrel's habitat (Site of Community Importance). Sites of interest Castel del Monte, one of the most famous castles in southern Italy and a World Heritage Site, is one of the most important sites located inside the park. Other sites or structures of interest include: * the bauxite mines of Murgetta in the Spinazzola area; * the Swabian castle of Gravina in Puglia; * the herbarium museum of Ruvo di Puglia; * Robinson's municipal park and the pine forest of Gravina in Puglia; * Galietti's pine forest of Santeramo in Colle; * Mesola's forest of Cassano delle Murge; * Lagopetto's municipal pine forest of Grumo Appula; * Mercadante's forest in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murgia, Álava
Murgia (, ) is a village and '' concejo'' located in the municipality of Zuia, in Álava province, Basque Country, Spain. It is the capital of the municipality as well as of the Cuadrilla de Gorbeialdea. The main road in the village is Domingo de Sautu Street. The Goba River separates a neighborhood called The Cross from the centre of the village. To the north is Sarria, to the northeast Zarate, to the southeast Jugo, to the southwest Bitoriano, and to the west Ametzaga. Demographics Notable people * Mikel Landa (born 1989), cyclist * Unai Simón Unai Simón Mendibil (born 11 June 1997) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Athletic Bilbao and the Spain national team. Simón has spent his entire club career with Athletic, developing with their youth academy ... (born 1997), footballer References External links * Concejos in Zuia {{BasqueCountry-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Murgia
Alessandro Murgia (; born 9 August 1996) is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder. Club career Lazio Murgia made his debut for Lazio in the 2016–17 season on 17 September 2016 in a 3–0 home win over Pescara. He scored his first goal for the club on 23 October 2016 in a 2–2 away draw against Torino. On 13 August 2017, Murgia scored the winning goal of the Supercoppa Italiana against Juventus with a final score of 3–2. On 14 September, Murgia started in his first match in European competitions, and scored the match winner of a 3–2 away victory over Vitesse in Lazio's first match of the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League. Loan to SPAL On 30 January 2019, Murgia joined to Serie A club SPAL on loan until 30 June 2019. SPAL On 12 July 2019, Murgia joined SPAL after 6-month loan, he signed until 2024. Loan to Perugia On 31 August 2021, he joined Perugia on loan. Hermannstadt On 9 August 2023, Murgia joined Romanian Superliga club Hermannstadt on loan. Internati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessio Murgia
Alessio Murgia (born 1 June 1997) is an Italian football player who plays for Serie D club Licata. Club career He made his Serie C debut for Olbia Olbia (, ; ; ) is a city and communes of Italy, commune of 61,000 inhabitants in the Italy, Italian insular province of Sassari in northeastern Sardinia, Italy, in the historical region of Gallura. Called in the Roman age, Civita in the Middle ... on 27 August 2016 in a game against Renate. References External links * 1997 births Living people Italian men's footballers Footballers from Sardinia Men's association football midfielders People from the Province of South Sardinia Cagliari Calcio players Olbia Calcio 1905 players SSD Sanremese Calcio players FC Aprilia Racing Club players ASD Licata Calcio players Serie C players Serie D players 21st-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-footy-midfielder-1990s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Murgia
David Murgia (born 16 March 1988) is a Belgian actor. He started his career in theatre in the early 2000s and has since gone on to appear in films. Theater Filmography References External links * 1988 births 20th-century Belgian male actors 21st-century Belgian male actors Belgian male film actors Belgian male stage actors Living people Magritte Award winners People from Verviers {{Belgium-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madhumita Murgia
Madhumita Murgia is a writer specialising in artificial intelligence. In February 2023 she was appointed as the first AI Editor of the ''Financial Times''. Early life and education Murgia grew up in Mumbai, India. She studied biology at the University of Oxford and worked there on AIDS vaccine research before taking an MA in science journalism at New York University. Career Murgia joined the ''Financial Times'' in 2016 and was its European technology correspondent before taking her present role. She was previously tech editor at ''The Telegraph'' and associate editor of ''Wired UK''. In 2017 she gave a TEDx talk at Exeter, on "How data brokers sell your identity". Her book ''Code Dependent'' was shortlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. ''The Guardian'' reviewer described it as "an account of how the everyday algorithms we have already learned to live beside are changing us: from the people paid (not much) to make sense of vast datasets, to the unintended conseque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michela Murgia
Michela Murgia (, ; 3 June 1972 – 10 August 2023) was an Italian novelist, playwright, and radio personality. She was a winner of the Campiello Prize, the Mondello International Literary Prize and , and was an active feminist and left-wing voice in the Italian public scene, speaking out on themes such as euthanasia and LGBTQ+ rights. Early life Michela Murgia was born in Cabras, Sardinia, on 3 June 1972. At the age of 18, she was taken in by her adoptive family as a , a 'soul-child', a traditional Sardinian adoption. In contrast to the usual age of between 10 and 14 years, Murgia's adoption was delayed because of her natural father's opposition. Murgia attended the Lorenzo Mossa Institute for Technical Studies in Oristano, and then joined the Institute of Religious Studies of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oristano to study theology. She taught religious studies at middle and grammar schools in Oristano for six years but never finished her studies. Among many other job ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Murgia
Nicole Murgia is an Italian actress best known for her role of Cristina Giorgi in the Italian television series Tutti pazzi per amore. She married footballer Andrea Bertolacci on 23 December 2015; her brother Alessandro is also a footballer. Selected filmography Cinema * '' Ricordati di me'' * '' Nessun messaggio in segreteria'' Televisione * '' Don Matteo 2'' * '' Distretto di Polizia 4'' * '' Nati ieri'' * ''Tutti pazzi per amore'' * ''Din Don – Bianco Natale'' Web TV * ''Youtuber$'' References External links * * Nicole Mugiraat Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator, review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee ... Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Actresses from Rome {{Italy-tv-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiberio Murgia
Tiberio Murgia (5 February 1929 – 20 August 2010) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1958 and 2009. Biography Born into a humble family, Murgia began working as a laborer from an early age. At the age of twenty he was already a peddler for l'Unità, the newspaper of the Italian Communist Party. The managing directors of the local branch of the party recognized particular political skills in him and send him to the National School for the party leaders in Frattocchie in the province of Rome. After his return, six months later, he became the Secretary of the Young Communist League and married. After some time, however, Murgia began to entertain a relationship with a fellow party member, who was also married. Murgia was then expelled because of this clandestine affair. Murgia then emigrated to Marcinelle, in Belgium, to work at the Bois du Cazier coalmine which had several thousands of Italian workers as miners, pursuant to the Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murgia Motion
A Murgia motion is a common motion in California criminal law based on the California Supreme Court decision ''Murgia v. Municipal Court'' (1975) 15 Cal.3d 286. The motion requests that the defendant's criminal charges be dismissed upon a showing of selective prosecution In jurisprudence, selective prosecution is a procedural defense in which defendants argue that they should not be held criminally liable for breaking the law because the criminal justice system discriminated against them by choosing to prosecut ... for improper purposes, amounting to a violation of the right to equal protection of law. References California law {{California-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
