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RAGUSA , a See also: town of See also:Sicily in the See also:province of See also:Syracuse, 7o m. S.W. of Syracuse by See also:rail and 32 M. See also:direct. It consists of an upper (Ragusa Superiore) and a See also:lower town (Ragusa Inferiore), each of which forms a See also:separate See also:commune. Pop. (1906) of the former, 35,529; of the latter, 866. It has some churches with See also:fine See also:Gothic See also:architecture, and is commercially of some importance, a See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone impregnated with See also:bitumen being quarried and prepared for use for paving slabs by being ex-posed to the See also:action of See also:fire. On the 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 occupied by the See also:castle of Ragusa Inferiore stood the See also:ancient See also:Hybla Heraea, a Sicel town, under the walls of which See also:Hippocrates of See also:Gela See also:fell in 491 B.C. A See also:Greek See also:settlement seems to have arisen in the neighbourhood See also:close to the See also:present railway station, about the See also:middle of the 6th See also:century B.c., and to have disappeared at the end of the 5th. Orsi points out that the remains (cuttings in the See also:rock and a See also:part of the castle See also:wall), attributed by See also:Freeman (See also:History of Sicily, i. 163) to Sicel times, are in reality See also:post-See also:Roman.
See Orsi in Notizie degli scavi (1899), 402-418.
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