Italo-Normans
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Italo-Norman families
- Notes
- Further reading
- See also
right|200px|thumb|Palazzo dei Normanni, the palace of the Norman kings in [[Palermo.]] right|200px|thumb|Bronze lion attributed to an Italo-Norman artist (Metropolitan Museum of Art).
The Italo-Normans (), or Siculo-Normans () when referring to Sicily and Southern Italy, are the Italian-born descendants of the first Norman conquerors to travel to Southern Italy in the first half of the eleventh century. While maintaining much of their distinctly Norman culture and customs of war, French culture also played an important role, they were partly shaped by the diversity of Southern Italy, by the cultures and customs of the Greeks, Lombards, and Arabs in Sicily.
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