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BRONTE

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 639 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRONTE  , a

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town of the province of Catania, Sicily, on the western slopes of Mt . Etna, 24 M . N.N.W. of Catania
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direct, and 34 M. by
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rail . Pop . (1901) 20,366 . It was founded by the emperor Charles V . The town, with an extensive estate which originally belonged to the monastery of Maniacium (Maniace), was granted, as a dukedom, to Nelson by Ferdinand IV. of Naples in 1799 .

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