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ENGYON

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 646 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ENGYON , an See also:

ancient See also:town of the interior of See also:Sicily, a Cretan See also:colony, according to See also:legend, and famous for an ancient See also:temple of the Matres which aroused the greed of See also:Verres. Its site is uncertain; some topographers have identified it with Gangi, a town 20 M. S.S.E. of See also:Cefalu, but only on the ground of the similarity of the two names. See C. Hiilsen in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopddie, v. 2568. ENID, a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Garfield county, See also:Oklahoma, U.S.A., about 55 M. N.W. of See also:Guthrie. Pop. (1900) 3444; (1907) 10,087 (355 of See also:negro descent); (191o) 13,799. Enid is served by the St See also:Louis & See also:San Francisco, the See also:Atchison, See also:Topeka & See also:Santa Fe, and the See also:Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific See also:railways, and by several See also:branch lines, and is an important railway centre. It is the seat of the Oklahoma See also:Christian University (1907; co-educational).

Enid is situated in a flourishing agricultural and stock-raising region, of which it is the commercial centre, and has various manufactures, including See also:

lumber, See also:brick, See also:tile and See also:flour. Natural See also:gas was discovered near the city in 1907. Enid was founded in 1893 and was chartered as a city in the same See also:year.

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