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MODICA , a See also:town of See also:Sicily, in the See also:province of See also:Syracuse, 57 M. W.S.W. of Syracuse by See also:rail and 33 M. See also:direct. Pop. (1901), 48,962. It lies on a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill between two valleys; the hill, crowned by the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of S. Giorgio, reconstructed in the 17th See also:century, was the site of the Sicel town of Motyca, while the See also:modern See also:part of the town extends along the See also:river Mauro, an inundation of which did much damage in See also:September 1902. Remains of megalithic buildings, apparently, however, houses of the See also:Byzantine See also:period, are described in Notizie degli Scavi, 1896, 242 seq. Six See also:miles to the See also:south-See also:east is the valley known as the Cava d'Ispica. with hundreds of grottoes cut in its rocky sides; of these only
few are Sicel tombs, the See also:majority being catacombs or open tombs of the See also:early See also:Christian and Byzantine periods, or even See also:cave-dwellings of the latter See also:age.
See P. Orsi in Notizie degli Scavi (1905), 431.
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