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AEGADIAN ISLANDS (Ital. Isole Egati; anc. Aegates Insulae)  , a

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group of small mountainous islands off the western
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coast of
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Sicily, chiefly remarkable as the
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scene of the defeat of the Carthaginian
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fleet by C . Lutatius
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Catulus in 241 B.C., which ended the First Punic
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War . Favignana (Aegusa), the largest, pop . (1901) 6414, lies 10 m . S.W. of
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Trapani; Levanzo (Phorbantia) 8 m . W.; while Maritimo, the
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ancient leper vi
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ros, 15 m . W. of Trapani, is now reckoned as a
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part of the group . They belonged to the Pallavicini
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family of
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Genoa until 1874, when they were bought by Signor
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Florio of
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Palermo .

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