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CARINI

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 336 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARINI  , a

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town in the
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province of
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Palermo,
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Sicily, 13 M. by
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rail W.N.W. of Palermo . Pop . (1901) 13,931 . On the
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coast are some ruins of the
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ancient Hyccara, the only Sican
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settlement (probably a fishing
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village) on the coast . It was stormed and taken by the Athenians in 415 B.C., and the inhabitants, among them the famous courtesan Lais, sold as slaves . At La Grazia
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Christian catacombs have been found (Not. degli Scavi, 1899, 362) .

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