"This is the name given to a political organisation formed in
1878, with the avowed object of freeing all Italians from
foreign rule, and of reuniting to the Italian kingdom all
those portions of the Italy of old which have passed under
foreign dominion. The operations of the 'Italia Irredenta'
party are chiefly carried on against Austria, in consequence
of the retention by that Empire of Trieste and the Southern
Tyrol. Until these territories have been relinquished, Italy,
or at least a certain part of it, will remain unsatisfied."
_J. S. Jeans,
Italy (National Life and Thought, chapter 8)._
ISAAC II. (Comnenus),
Emperor in the East (Byzantine, or Greek), A. D. 1057-1059.
Isaac II. (Angelus), Emperor in the East (Byzantine, or
Greek), 1185-1195.
ISABELLA,
Queen of Castile
(wife of Ferdinand II., King of Aragon), A. D. 1474-1504.
Isabella I., Queen of Spain, 1833-1868.
ISABELLA.
The city founded by Columbus on the island of Hispaniola, or
Hayti.
See AMERICA: A. D. 1493-1496.
ISANDLANA, The English disaster at (1879).
See SOUTH AFRICA: A. D. 1877-1879.
ISASZEG, Battle of (1849).
See AUSTRIA: A. D. 1848-1849.
ISAURIAN DYNASTY, The.
See BYZANTINE EMPIRE: A. D. 717-797.
ISAURIANS, The.
The Isaurians were a fierce and savage race of mountaineers,
who occupied anciently a district in Asia Minor, between
Cilicia and Pamphylia on the south and Phrygia on the north.
They were persistently a nation of robbers, living upon the
spoils taken from their neighbors, who were never able to
punish them justly in their mountain fastnesses. Even the iron
hand of the Romans failed to reduce the Isaurians to order,
although P. Servilius, in 78 B. C., destroyed most of their
strongholds, and Pompey, eleven years later, in his great
campaign against the pirates, put an end to the lawless
depredations on sea and land of the Cilicians, who had become
confederated with the Isaurians. Five centuries afterwards, in
the days of the Eastern Empire, the Isaurians were the best
soldiers of its army, and even gave an emperor to the throne
at Constantinople in the person of Zeno or Zenon.
_E. W. Brooks,
The Emperor Zenon and the Isaurians
(English Historical Review, April, 1893)._