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GRAMMICHELE

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GRAMMICHELE , a See also:

town of See also:Sicily, in the See also:province of See also:Catania, 55 in. S.W. of it by See also:rail and 31 M. See also:direct. Pop. (1901) 15,075. It was built in 1693, after the destruction by an See also:earthquake of the old town of Occhiala to the See also:north; the latter, on See also:account of the similarity of name, is generally identified with Echetla, a frontier See also:city between Syracusan and Carthaginian territory in the See also:time of See also:Hiero II., which appears to have been originally a Sicel city in which See also:Greek See also:civilization prevailed from the 5th See also:century onwards. To the See also:east of Grammichele a See also:cave See also:shrine of See also:Demeter, with See also:fine votive terra-cottas, has been discovered. See Mon. Lincei, vii. (1897), 201; Not. degli scavi (1902), 223.

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