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LICODIA EUBEA

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 588 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LICODIA EUBEA ,. a See also:

town of See also:Sicily in the See also:province of See also:Catania, 4 M. W. of Vizzini, which is 39 M. S.W. of Catania by See also:rail. Pop. (1901) 7033. The name Eubea was given .to the See also:place in 1872 owing to a false See also:identification with the See also:Greek See also:city of See also:Euboea, a See also:colony of See also:Leontini, founded probably See also:early in the 6th See also:century B.C. and taken by Gelon. The town occupies the site of an unknown Sicel city, the cemeteries of which have been explored. A few vases of the first See also:period were found, but practically all the tombs explored in 1898 belonged to the See also:fourth period (7o0—500 B.C.) and show the See also:gradual See also:process of Hellenization among the Sicels. See Romiscke Mitteilungen, 1898, 305 seq. ; Notizie degli scavi, 1902, 219. (T.

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