by maxiestern11 » Sun Oct 13, 2019 5:46 am
Since I was a young boy I have always heard that the true origins of what would become known many years later as the Mafia throughout the world had its seeds in what was called “The Night of the Sicilian Vespers”!..... a purge over several weeks by the Sicilian townspeople of invaders to Palermo City. And that an underground “groundswell” of Sicilian “partisans” began to form across all of Sicily and mainland Southern Italy (Calabria upward through Campania). This “theory” has been handed down generation after generation, not only in my family but that of most Italians I’ve ever known. It’s like part of our accepted history...... what follows below is taken from another site, which in turn was official theory of the FBI also. (I know that some discount this theory as fantasy but I for one, and again I say, most Italian families accept this theory outright).
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1282 Mar 29 Palermo, Palermo, Sicily Citizens of Palermo Sicilian Vespers revolution against the occupying Angevins is traditionally viewed as the birth of the Sicilian Mafia. There are no contemporary mentions of the name "Mafia," a term which comes into being hundreds of years later, but the underground movement against Anjou may be seen as the ancestor of a later Mafia. The revolution began on Easter Sunday in 1282 - March 29 by the Julian calendar then in use. Source: FBI Mafia Monograph, July 1958, section I, p. 5.
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http://mafiahistory.us/maf-chr1.html
Source info:
Hunt, Thomas, "Timeline Part 1. 1282-1899," The American Mafia, mafiahistory.us, accessed Oct. 13, 2019.
Copyright © Thomas Hunt
Since I was a young boy I have always heard that the true origins of what would become known many years later as the Mafia throughout the world had its seeds in what was called “The Night of the Sicilian Vespers”!..... a purge over several weeks by the Sicilian townspeople of invaders to Palermo City. And that an underground “groundswell” of Sicilian “partisans” began to form across all of Sicily and mainland Southern Italy (Calabria upward through Campania). This “theory” has been handed down generation after generation, not only in my family but that of most Italians I’ve ever known. It’s like part of our accepted history...... what follows below is taken from another site, which in turn was official theory of the FBI also. (I know that some discount this theory as fantasy but I for one, and again I say, most Italian families accept this theory outright).
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1282 Mar 29 Palermo, Palermo, Sicily Citizens of Palermo Sicilian Vespers revolution against the occupying Angevins is traditionally viewed as the birth of the Sicilian Mafia. There are no contemporary mentions of the name "Mafia," a term which comes into being hundreds of years later, but the underground movement against Anjou may be seen as the ancestor of a later Mafia. The revolution began on Easter Sunday in 1282 - March 29 by the Julian calendar then in use. Source: FBI Mafia Monograph, July 1958, section I, p. 5.
Copied from: http://mafiahistory.us/maf-chr1.html
Source info:
Hunt, Thomas, "Timeline Part 1. 1282-1899," The American Mafia, mafiahistory.us, accessed Oct. 13, 2019.
Copyright © Thomas Hunt