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Sicily
Sicily (Italian and Sicilian: Sicilia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and an autonomous region of Italy. Minor islands around it are also considered to be part of Sicily.
Throughout much of its history, Sicily has been considered a crucial strategic location due in large part to its...
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Syracuse
Syracuse (Italian: Siracusa pronounced [siraˈku(ː)za], Sicilian: Sarausa, Ancient Greek: Συρακοῦσαι – transliterated: Syrakousai) is a historic city in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Syracuse. The city is famous for its rich Greek...
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- 204 km² (78.8 mi² )
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Palermo
Palermo (Italian pronunciation: [paˈlɛrmo], Sicilian: Palermu, Latin: Panormus, from Greek: Πάνορμος, Panormos) is a historic city in Southern Italy, the capital of the autonomous region Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its...
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- 158.88 km² (61.344 mi² )
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Alcamo
Alcamo (Sicilian: Àrcamu) is the fourth largest city in the province of Trapani, in north-western Sicily, Italy.
Alcamo was founded in 828 by the Muslim commander al-Kamuk (after whom it is named), though other sources date its origin to c. 972. The...
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- 130 km² (50.2 mi² )
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Catania
Catania (pronounced [kaˈta(ː)nja], Greek: Κατάνη – Katáni; Latin: Catăna and Catĭna) is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse. It is the capital of the eponymous province, and with 298,957...
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- 180.88 km² (69.838 mi² )
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Trapani
Trapani (Sicilian: Tràpani) is a city and comune on the west coast of Sicily in Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Trapani. Founded by Elymians, the city is still an important fishing port and the main gateway to the nearby Egadi Islands....
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- 271 km² (105 mi² )
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Gibellina
Gibellina (Sicilian: Gibbiddina) is a small city and comune in the mountains of central Sicily, Italy in the Province of Trapani. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1968.
The new city, Gibellina Nuova, was rebuilt some 20 km distant from the old...
Area:
- 45 km² (17 mi² )
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Erice
Erice (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛritʃe], Sicilian: Èrici) is a historic town and comune in the province of Trapani in Sicily, Italy.
Erice is located on top of Mount Erice, at around 750m above sea level, overlooking the city of Trapani, the low...
Area:
- 47 km² (18 mi² )
Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto
Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (Sicilian: Barcillona e Pizzaottu) is a town and comune of about 50,000 inhabitants in the north coast of Sicily, Italy, 40 km from Messina towards Palermo. It belongs to the Province of Messina. Barcellona was founded in...
Area:
- 58.89 km² (22.74 mi² )
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Bagheria
Bagheria (Baarìa in Sicilian) is a town and comune in the Province of Palermo in Sicily, Italy.
Since its founding, the town has gone by the names of Bayharia, Baharia, and Baarìa. In 1658 Giuseppe Branciforti, Prince of Butera, a former Viceroy of...
Area:
- 29 km² (11 mi² )
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Milazzo
Milazzo (Sicilian: Milazzu, Latin: Mylae) is a town and comune on the northern coast of Sicily, Italy. It lies 50 km from Messina, just north of the road to Palermo. It is located on a peninsula called Capo di Milazzo.
Several civilisations settled...
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- 24 km² (9.3 mi² )
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Termini Imerese
Termini Imerese (Sicilian: Tèrmini; Greek: Thermae Himeraeae - Θέρμαι; Θερμαὶ αἱ Ἱμερᾶαι, Pol.; Θερμαὶ Ἱμέραι, Ptol.; Θερμὰ, Θερμὰ Ἱμεραῖα, Diod.), Latin: Thermae Himerenses, literally Himera's hot springs), is a town and comune in the province of...
Area:
- 77.57 km² (29.95 mi² )
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Corleone
Corleone (Sicilian: Cunigghiuni) is a small town and comune of approximately 12,000 inhabitants in the Province of Palermo in Sicily, Italy.
It is known primarily as the birthplace of several Mafia bosses, both fictional, such as The Godfather Vito...
Area:
- 229 km² (88.4 mi² )
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Marsala
Marsala is a seaport city located in the Province of Trapani on the island of Sicily in Italy. The low coast on which it is situated is the westernmost point of the island. It is best known as the source of Marsala wine.
Marsala occupies the site of...
Area:
- 241 km² (93.1 mi² )
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Agrigento
Agrigento (Sicilian: Girgenti), is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, and capital of the province of Agrigento. It is renowned as the site of the ancient Greek city of Akragas (also known as Acragas (Ἀκράγας) in Greek, Agrigentum in...
Area:
- 244 km² (94.2 mi² )
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Mazara del Vallo
Mazara del Vallo (Sicilian: Mazara) is a town and comune in southwestern Sicily, Italy, which lies mainly on the left bank at the mouth of the Mazaro river, administratively part of the province of Trapani.
It is an agricultural and fishing centre...
Area:
- 275 km² (106 mi² )
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Monreale
Monreale (Sicilian: Murriali) is a town and comune in the province of Palermo, in Sicily, Italy, on the slope of Monte Caputo, overlooking the very fertile valley called "La Conca d'oro" (the Golden Shell), famed for its orange, olive and almond...
Area:
- 529 km² (204 mi² )
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Cefalù
Cefalù (Sicilian: Cifalù, Greek: Κεφαλοίδιον, Diod., Strabo, or Κεφαλοιδὶς, Ptol.; Latin: Cephaloedium, or Cephaloedis, Pliny) is a city and comune in the province of Palermo, located on the northern coast of Sicily, Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea...
Area:
- 65 km² (25 mi² )
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Messina
Messina (Italian pronunciation: [mesˈsi(ː)na], Sicilian: Missina) is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, Italy, and the capital of the province of Messina. It has a population of c. 240,000 inhabitants in the city proper and about 500...
Area:
- 211 km² (81.5 mi² )
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Bronte
Bronte is a town and comune of Sicily (in the province of Catania, Italy), near Mount Etna.
Bronte is located slightly northwest of Mount Etna, on the side of the valley of the Simeto river. It is about 30 kilometers west of the coast.
In 1520...
Area:
- 249 km² (96.1 mi² )
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Noto
Noto (Sicilian: Nuotu, Latin: Neetum and Netum) is a city and comune in the Province of Syracuse, Sicily (Italy). Its located 32 km southwest of the city of Syracuse at the foot of the Iblean Mountains and gives its name to the surrounding valley,...
Area:
- 550.86 km² (212.69 mi² )
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Mount Etna
Mount Etna (Αἴτνη (Aítnē) in Classical Greek, Aetna in Latin, also known as Muncibeḍḍu (beautiful mountain) in Sicilian and Mongibello in Italian (from the Latin mons and the Arabic gibel, both meaning mountain) is an active stratovolcano on the...
Taormina
Taormina (Sicilian: Taurmina, Greek: Ταυρομένιον - Tauromenion, Latin Tauromenium) is a comune and small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, in the Province of Messina, about midway between Messina and Catania. Taormina has been a...
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- 13 km² (5 mi² )
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Ustica
Ustica (Sicilian: Ùstica) is the name of a small island, about 9 km across, situated 52 km north of Capo Gallo, Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Roughly 1,300 people live in the comune (municipality) of the same name. There is regular ferry service from...
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- 8 km² (3.1 mi² )
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Belice
The Belice (Sicilian: Bèlici) is a river, 77 km in length, of western Sicily. From its main source near Piana degli Albanesi it runs south and west for 45.5 km as the Belice Destra (Right Belice) until it is joined on the left by its secondary...
Lampedusa
The Mediterranean island of Lampedusa (Italian: Isola di Lampedusa, Sicilian: Isula di Lampidusa) belongs to Italy and is the largest of the Pelagie Islands, situated 205 km from Sicily and 113 km from Tunisia. It is the southernmost point in the...
Area:
- 25.48 km² (9.838 mi² )
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Province of Ragusa
The Province of Ragusa (Italian: Provincia di Ragusa; Sicilian: Pruvincia i Rausa) is a province in the autonomous region of Sicily in Italy, located in the south-east of the island. Its capital is the city of Ragusa that is the most southern...
Area:
- 1,614 km² (623.2 mi² )
Contessa Entellina
Contessa Entellina (Sicilian: Cuntissa, Arbëreshë: Hora e Kundisës) is an Albanian speaking town and comune in the province of Palermo, in Sicily, southern Italy. Contessa Entellina is located about 25 km southwest of Corleone.
In ancient times it...
Area:
- 136 km² (52.5 mi² )
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Caronia
Caronia (Sicilian: Carunìa, Greek: Καλάκτα, Ptol.: Καλὴ Ἀκτὴ, Diod. et al., Latin: Calacte or Cale Acte) is a town and comune on the north coast of Sicily, in the province of Messina, about half way between Tyndaris (modern Tindari) and Cephaloedium...
Area:
- 226 km² (87.3 mi² )
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Ragusa
Ragusa (Sicilian: Rausa) is a city and comune in southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Ragusa, on the island of Sicily, with around 75,000 inhabitants. It is built on a wide limestone hill between two deep valleys, Cava San Leonardo...
Area:
- 442.37 km² (170.8 mi² )
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Enna
Enna (Sicilian: Castrugiuvanni; Greek: Ἔννα; Latin: Henna and less frequently Haenna) is a city and comune located in the center of Sicily in the province of Enna, towering above the surrounding countryside. It has earned a few nicknames, such as ...
Area:
- 357 km² (138 mi² )
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Caltanissetta
Caltanissetta (Sicilian: Nissa or Cartanissetta) is a city and comune located on the western interior of Sicily, capital of the province of Caltanissetta. It lies in an area of rolling hills with small villages and towns, crossed by the river Salso....
Area:
- 416 km² (161 mi² )
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Caccamo
Caccamo (Sicilian: Càccamu) is a town and comune located on the Tyrrhenian coast of Sicily in the Province of Palermo.
The official founding of Caccamo was not until 1093, when the Normans began building the castle on a rocky spur overlooking a...
Area:
- 187 km² (72.2 mi² )
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Sciacca
Sciacca (Greek: Θέρμαι; Latin: Thermae Selinuntinae, Thermae Selinuntiae, Thermae, Aquae Labrodes and Aquae Labodes), also Schiacca, is a town and comune in the province of Agrigento on the southwestern coast of Sicily. It has noteworthy views of...
Area:
- 180.98 km² (69.877 mi² )
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Ispica
Ispica (Sicilian: Spaccafurnu, Latin: Hyspicae Fundus) is a city and comune in the south of Sicily, Italy. It is 30 km from Ragusa, 50 km from Syracuse, and 90 km away from La Valletta, on the coast of Malta. The first mention in a document of...
Area:
- 100 km² (38.6 mi² )
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Gela
Gela is a town and comune in the province of Caltanissetta in the south of Sicily, Italy. The city is at about 84 kilometers distance from the city of Caltanissetta, on the Mediterranean Sea. The city has a larger population than the provincial...
Area:
- 276 km² (107 mi² )
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Pantelleria
Pantelleria (Sicilian: Pantiddirìa), the ancient Cossyra, is an Italian island in the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, 100 km (62 mi) southwest of Sicily and just 70 km (43 mi) east of the Tunisian coast. Administratively Pantelleria is a...
Area:
- 83 km² (32 mi² )
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Licata
Licata (Greek: Φιντίας; Latin: Phintias or Plintis; formerly also Alicata) is a city and comune located on the south coast of Sicily, at the mouth of the Salso River (the ancient Himera), about midway between Agrigento and Gela. It is a major...
Area:
- 178 km² (68.7 mi² )
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Butera
Butera (Sicilian: Vutera) is an Italian town and comune in the province of Caltanissetta, in the southwestern part of the island of Sicily. It is bounded by the comuni of Gela, Licata, Mazzarino, Ravanusa and Riesi. It has population of 5,063 and is...
Area:
- 295 km² (114 mi² )
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Province of Caltanissetta
The Province of Caltanissetta (Italian: Provincia di Caltanissetta; Sicilian: Pruvincia di Caltanissetta) is a province in the southern part of Sicily, Italy. It contains 22 comuni (singular: comune), see Comuni of the Province of Caltanissetta.
In...
Area:
- 2,128 km² (821.6 mi² )
Vizzini
Vizzini is a town and comune in the province of Catania, on the island of Sicily. It is located 60 km from Catania in the Hyblaean Mountains, on the most northwesterly slopes of Monte Lauro.
The commune territory is bounded by the comuni of Buccheri...
Area:
- 125 km² (48.3 mi² )
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Naro
Naro (Sicilian: Naru) is a comune in the province of Agrigento, in the island of Sicily, Italy. It is bounded by the comuni of Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Camastra, Campobello di Licata, Canicattì, Castrofilippo, Delia, Favara, Licata, Palma di...
Area:
- 207 km² (79.9 mi² )
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Petralia Sottana
Petralia Sottana (Sicilian: Pitralìa Suttana) is a town and comune in the Province of Palermo, in the island of Sicily, Italy.
The Madonie Mountains cover the commune. It includes the "Fractions" (frazioni) Piano Battaglia, Landro, Recattivo and...
Area:
- 178 km² (68.7 mi² )
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Province of Agrigento
Agrigento (Italian: Provincia di Agrigento; Sicilian: Pruvincia di Girgenti) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy. It has an area of 3,042 km², and a total population of 448,053 (2001). There are 43 comunes (Italian:...
Area:
- 3,042 km² (1175 mi² )
Province of Catania
Catania (Italian: Provincia di Catania; Sicilian: Pruvincia di Catania) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy. Its capital is the city of Catania.
It has an area of 3,552 km², and a total population of 1,073,881 (2005)....
Area:
- 3,552 km² (1371 mi² )
Province of Messina
Messina (Italian: Provincia di Messina; Sicilian: Pruvincia di Missina) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy. Its capital is the city of Messina.
It has an area of 3,247 km² (12.6% of total of the island), and a total...
Area:
- 3,247 km² (1254 mi² )
Province of Trapani
Trapani (Italian: Provincia di Trapani; Sicilian: Pruvincia di Tràpani) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy. Its capital is the city of Trapani.
It has an area of 2,460 km², and a total population of 425,121 (2001)....
Area:
- 2,460 km² (949.8 mi² )
Province of Syracuse
The Province of Syracuse (Italian: Provincia di Siracusa; Sicilian: Pruvincia di Sarausa) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy. Its capital is the city of Syracuse.
It has an area of 2,109 km², and a total population of...
Area:
- 2,109 km² (814.3 mi² )
Province of Enna
Enna (Italian: Provincia di Enna; Sicilian: Pruvincia di Enna) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy. Its capital is the city of Enna.
It has an area of 2,562 km², and a total population of 177,200 (2001). There are 20...
Area:
- 2,562 km² (989.2 mi² )
Province of Palermo
The Province of Palermo (Italian: Provincia di Palermo; Sicilian: Pruvincia di Palermu) is a province in the autonomous region of Sicily, an island off the coast of Italy. Its capital is the city of Palermo. The Province of Palermo has 82 comuni ...
Area:
- 4.992 km² (1.927 mi² )
Giardini-Naxos
Giardini Naxos (Sicilian: Giaddini) is a comune in the Province of Messina on the island of Sicily in Italy. It is situated on the coast of the Ionian Sea on a bay which lies between Cape Taormina and Cape Schisò. Today it is a popular seaside...
Area:
- 5 km² (1.9 mi² )
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Acireale
Acireale (Sicilian: Jaciriali; often shortened to Jaci or Aci) is a coastal city and comune in the north-east of the province of Catania, Sicily, Italy, at the foot of Mount Etna, on the coast of the Ionian Sea, and with mineral waters. It is a...
Area:
- 39 km² (15 mi² )
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Castellammare del Golfo
Castellammare del Golfo (Sicilian: Casteddammari) is a town and comune in the Trapani Province of Sicily. The name is roughly translated "Sea Fortress of the Gulf." It is so named because of the medieval fortress in the harbor. The body of water it...
Area:
- 127 km² (49 mi² )
Linguaglossa
Linguaglossa (Sicilian: Linguarossa) is a town and comune in the Province of Catania in Sicily, located on the northern side of Mount Etna.
Area:
- 58 km² (22 mi² )
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Alia
Alia is a comune in the province of Palermo, on the Italian island of Sicily.
Area:
- 45 km² (17 mi² )
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Floridia
Floridia (Sicilian: Ciuriddia) is a town and comune in the Province of Syracuse, Sicily (Italy).
Floridia lies 12 km west of Syracuse. Its principal industries are agriculture, livestock, and manufacturing.
Neighboring communities are Canicattini...
Area:
- 26.22 km² (10.12 mi² )
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Grammichele
Grammichele (Sicilian: Grammicheli, Greek: Echetle (meaning "plowshare"); Latin: Echetla; Medieval: Occhiolà) is a town and comune in the province of Catania in Sicily, southern Italy.
It was built in 1693, after the destruction by an earthquake of...
Area:
- 30 km² (12 mi² )
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Montemaggiore Belsito
Montemaggiore Belsito (Sicilian: Muntimaiuri) is a small town and comune located about 80 kilometres far from the city of Palermo, Sicily, in the Province of Palermo.
Slightly damaged by several earthquakes, there are several churches and a palace....
Area:
- 31.83 km² (12.29 mi² )
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Porto Empedocle
Porto Empedocle (Sicilian: Portu Empedocli) is a town and comune in Italy on the coast of the Strait of Sicily, administratively part of the province of Agrigento. It is the namesake of Empedocles (Greek: Ἐμπεδοκλῆς, ca. 490–430 BC), a Greek pre...
Area:
- 24 km² (9.3 mi² )
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Ventimiglia di Sicilia
Ventimiglia di Sicilia (Sicilian: Calamigna) is a town and comune in the Province of Palermo, located in the autonomous region of Sicily, Italy. Though "Ventimiglia di Sicilia" is its official name, in Sicilian, the city is known as Calamigna....
Area:
- 26 km² (10 mi² )
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Alessandria della Rocca
Alessandria della Rocca (Sicilian: Lisciànnira di la Rocca) is a comune and small agricultural town located in west central Sicily in the northern part of the Province of Agrigento, in Italy. Many of the town's inhabitants emigrated to the United...
Area:
- 61 km² (24 mi² )
