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SANTA MARIA DI LICODIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 189 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SANTA MARIA DI LICODIA , a See also:village of See also:Sicily, in the See also:province of See also:Catania, 18 m. N.W. of Catania by See also:rail, on the S.W. slopes of See also:Mount See also:Etna. Pop. (1901) 4101. It is believed to occupy the site of the See also:ancient Aetna, a See also:settlement founded by the colonists whom See also:Hiero I. had placed at Catania after their See also:expulsion by the See also:original inhabitants in 461 B.C., which absorbed or incorporated an already existing Sicel See also:town named Inessa. Its subsequent See also:history is uneventful, though it suffered from the exactions of See also:Verres; and its See also:inscriptions are unimportant. A large hoard of coins was found here in 1891. Near it, in a See also:district called Civita, is a large elliptical See also:area of about 1300 by 38o yds., en-closed by a See also:wall of masses of See also:lava, which is about 28 ft. wide at the See also:base, and 11 ft. high. The ground is covered with fragments of tiles and pottery of the classical See also:period, and it is probably a hastily built encampment of historic times rather than a See also:primitive fortification, as there are no prehistoric traces (Orsi in Notizie degli scavi, 1903, 442). See Casagrandi, Su due antiche cittd sicule Vessa ed Inessa (See also:Acireale, 1892).

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