- GHIBELLINES
- a political party in Italy who, from the 11th to the 14th centuries, maintained the supremacy of the German emperors over the Italian States in opposition to the GUELPHS (q.v.).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
GHIBELLINES
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