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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 597 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PALAWARAM , a See also:

town of See also:British See also:India, in See also:Chingleput See also:district, See also:Madras, 11 m. S. of Madras See also:city, with a station on the See also:South See also:Indian railway; pop. (19ot), 6416. Formerly called the See also:presidency See also:cantonment, as containing the native See also:garrison for Madras city, it is now a See also:depot for native See also:infantry and the See also:residence of See also:European pensioners. There are several tanneries. PALAllOLO ACREIDE, a town of See also:Sicily, in the See also:province of See also:Syracuse, 28 M. by road W. of it, 2285 ft. above See also:sea-level. Pop. (1901), 14,840. The town occupies the site of the See also:ancient Acrae, founded by Syracuse about 664 B.C. It followed in the See also:main the fortunes of the See also:mother city. In the treaty between the See also:Romans and See also:Hiero II. in 263 B.C. it was assigned to the latter. The ancient city See also:lay on the See also:hill above the See also:modern town, the approach to it being defended by quarries, in which tombs of all periods have been discovered.

The auditorium of the small See also:

theatre is well preserved, though nothing of the See also:stage remains. See also:Close to it are ruins of other buildings, which See also:bear, without See also:justification, the names Naumachia, See also:Odeum (perhaps a See also:bath See also:establishment) and See also:Palace of Hiero. The See also:water See also:supply was obtained by subterranean aqueducts. In the cliffs of the See also:Monte Pineta to the south are other See also:tomb See also:chambers, and to the south again are the curious bas-reliefs called Santoni or Santicelli, mutilated in the 19th See also:century by a See also:peasant proprietor, which appear to be sepulchral also. Near here too is the See also:necropolis of the Acrocoro della Torre, where many sarcophagi have been found. Five See also:miles See also:north lies Buscemi, near which a sacred grotto has been discovered; and also a See also:church cut in the See also:rock and surrounded by a See also:cemetery). See G. Judica, Antichita di See also:Acre (See also:Messina, 1819). (See also:Baron Judica's collection of antiquities was dispersed after his See also:death.) J. Schubring, Jahrbuch See also:fur Philologie, Suppl. IV., 662—672.

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