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CALATAFIMI

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 968 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CALATAFIMI , a See also:

town of the See also:province of See also:Trapani, See also:Sicily, 30 M. W.S.W. of See also:Palermo See also:direct (511 M. by See also:rail). Pop. (1901) 11,426. The name of the town is derived from the Saracenic See also:castle of See also:Kalat-al-Fimi (castle of Euphemius), which stands above it. The See also:principal See also:church contains a See also:fine See also:Renaissance See also:reredos in See also:marble. See also:Samuel See also:Butler, the author of Erewhon, did much of his See also:work here. The battlefield where See also:Garibaldi won his first victory over the Neapolitans on the 15th of May 1860, lies 2 M. S.W.

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