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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 905 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUGUSTA , a seaport of the See also:

province of See also:Syracuse, See also:Sicily, 19 m. N. of it by See also:rail. Pop. (1901) 16,402. It occupies a See also:part of the former See also:peninsula of Xiphonia, now a small See also:island, connected with the mainland by a See also:bridge. It was founded by the See also:emperor See also:Frederick II. in 1232, and almost entirely destroyed by an See also:earthquake in 1693, after which it was rebuilt. The See also:castle is now a large See also:prison. The fortified See also:port, though unfrequented except as a See also:naval See also:harbour of See also:refuge, is a very See also:fine one. There are considerable saltworks at Augusta. To the See also:south, on the See also:left See also:bank of the Molinello; 1a m. from its mouth, Sicel tombs and See also:Christian catacombs, and farther up the See also:river a See also:cave See also:village of the See also:early See also:middle ages, have been explored (Notizie degli Scavi, 1902, 411, 631 ; Romische Quartalschrift, 1902, 205). Whether there was ever a See also:town bearing the name Xiphonia is doubted by E. A.

See also:

Freeman (Hilt. of Sic. i. 583); cf., however, E. Pais, Atakta (See also:Pisa, 1891), 55, who attributes its See also:foundation, under the name of Tauromenion (which it soon lost), to the Zancleans of See also:Hybla (afterwards See also:Megara Hyblaea). (T.

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