Cape Spartivento
ancient Herculis Promontorium, a promontory of southern Italy, forming the S. E. extremity of Calabria; lat. 37° 57′ N., lon. 16° 5' E.
CAPET (kā'pet or kap-ā'), the name of the French race of kings which has The first of the Capets known in history given over 100 sovereigns to Europe.
Count of Anjou by Charles the Bald, was Robert the Strong, a Saxon, made and afterward duke of the Ile de France.
His descendant, Hugh, son of Hugh the in place of the Carlovingians. On the Great, was in 987 elected King of France failure of the direct line at the death of Charles IV., the French throne was kept in the family by the accession of the indirect line of Valois, and in 1589 by that of Bourbon. Capet being thus regarded as the family name of the kings of France, Louis XVI. was arraigned before the National Convention under the name of Louis Capet. of Good Hope, South Africa; between