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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 152 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VITTORIA , a See also:

town of See also:Sicily in the See also:province of See also:Syracuse, 95 m. W.S.W. of Syracuse by See also:rail (42 m. See also:direct), founded in 16o5 by Giovanni See also:Alphonso Henriquez, who named it after his See also:mother, the famous Vittoria See also:Colonna. It is a prosperous town s See also:Vitruvius names See also:Cicero and See also:Lucretius as See also:post nostram memoriam nascentes. 3 The architect being at that See also:time also the contractor. in the centre of a fertile See also:district, with the largest See also:wine See also:trade in Sicily. Pop. (1901) 30,832 (town), 32,219 (See also:commune).

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