Example sentences for: normans

How can you use “normans” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • West along Via Vittorio Eman­uele, the Palace of the Normans (Palazzo dei Normanni) was built by the Saracens as a ninth-century fortress and later turned into a royal residence, appropriate setting for the later brilliance and luxury of Emperor Frederick II’s Sicilian court (see page 22).

  • The Italian people, with Latins and Etruscans mixing over themillennia with Greeks, Lombards, Normans, French, and Spaniards, are as fascinatingly diverse as this panoply of landscapes.

  • Pisa sided with the Normans in Sicily and profits from its new commercial empire in the western Mediterranean paid for its magnificent cathedral, baptistery, and campanile (today’s Leaning Tower).

  • Surname was indeed an adaptation of French surnom , but the Normans called it that because in Latin it was a super nomen , an `extra name.

  • When the Normans conquered England they introduced their own philosophy of allowing the same name to be borne simultaneously by many members of a group.


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