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CALATAFIMI

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 968 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CALATAFIMI  , a

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town of the province of Trapani, Sicily, 30 M . W.S.W. of Palermo
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direct (511 M. by
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rail) . Pop . (1901) 11,426 . The name of the town is derived from the Saracenic castle of
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Kalat-al-Fimi (castle of Euphemius), which stands above it . The
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principal church contains a
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fine Renaissance reredos in marble .
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Samuel Butler, the author of Erewhon, did much of his
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work here . The battlefield where Garibaldi won his first victory over the Neapolitans on the 15th of May 1860, lies 2 M . S.W .

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