Kingdom of Trinacria

English

Etymology

See Italian Trinacria, the name for Sicily during the classical Greek period.

Proper noun

the Kingdom of Trinacria

1. (historical, informal) The insular Kingdom of Sicily (from 1302); as distinguished from the peninsular Kingdom of Sicily, now commonly called Kingdom of Naples.
   • 1861, The Rambler, Volume IV, New Series, page 190,

     The Pope,^{[Gregory XI]} who now maintained his rights to both kingdoms, that of Naples (the continental Sicily), and that of Trinacria (the island), fixed the formula of the oath of allegiance for Frederic, entailed the kingdom of Trinacria, defined the contingencies on which the crown would revert to the Roman See, enacted the liberty of the Church, the perpetual severance of Trinacria from Lombardy, Tuscia, and Germany, and the mode and duration of the dependence of Trinacria upon the crown of Naples. This was in 1372 […] .

   • 1996 [Frank Cass & Co], David Abulafia, The Aragonese Kingdom of Albania, Benjamin Arbel (editor), Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean, 2012, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 8,

     James's letter also makes it plain that the negotiations between the various parties were set on a different track when the problem of the future of the Kingdom of Trinacria was brought under discussion.

   • 2007, Jim Bradbury, The Capetians: Kings of France 987-1328, page 261:

     In the end the old kingdom was divided between the Angevin kingdom of Naples on the mainland and the insular Aragonese kingdom of Trinacria.