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TERMINI IMERESE (anc. Thermae Himeraeae)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 642 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TERMINI IMERESE (anc. Thermae Himeraeae) , a seaport See also:

town of See also:Sicily, in the See also:province of See also:Palermo, 23 M. E.S.E. of it by See also:rail. Pop. (See also:loot) 20,633. It is finely situated on a promontory above its See also:harbour, and it is possible that it was occupied by an See also:early Phoenician See also:settlement; as a town, however, it was not founded until 407 B.C. by the Carthaginians, after their destruction of See also:Himera, in the vicinity of hot springs mentioned by See also:Pindar (Od. xii. 1o) which are still resorted to and are well fitted up (temp. 110 F.). It remained a Carthaginian See also:colony, though thoroughly Greeks in See also:character, until it was taken by See also:Rome in the First Punic See also:war. In the See also:time of See also:Cicero it was flourishing; though not of See also:great importance. See also:Augustus sent a See also:Roman colony to it, and a Roman road ran from it to Catana. Its See also:medieval See also:castle was destroyed in 186o.

The See also:

modern town presents no features of See also:interest; there is a collection of antiquities and pictures, with a considerable number of Roman See also:inscriptions. Scanty remains of buildings of Roman times (an See also:amphitheatre and a so-called See also:basilica) exist in the upper See also:part of the town; and outside it on the S. are considerable remains of two aqueducts of the same See also:period See also:crossing a deep See also:ravine. The surrounding See also:district is fertile. Four m. E. of Termini, about 1 m. W. of the railway station of Cerda, on an E. See also:spur of the See also:Monte S. Calogera, called Monte Castellaccio, is a Cyclopean See also:wall, about 66 ft. See also:long, to ft. thick, and 30 ft. high in the See also:middle, blocking the only See also:access to the See also:summit of the spur, on the N.E. Fortifications in this See also:style are very rare in Sicily. See B. Romano, Antichitd Termitane (Palermo, 1838) ; Mauceri, Acropoli Pelasgica See also:nei dintorni di Termini Imerese (Palermo, 1896). T.

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