CEFALU (anc. Cephaloedium)  , a seaport and episcopal see of the province of Palermo, Sicily, 42 M . E. of Palermo by rail . Pop . (1901) 13,273 . The ancient town (of Sicel origin, probably, despite its Greek name) takes its name from the headland (ice4aXij, head) upon which it stood (1233 ft.); its fortifications extended to the shore, on the side where the modern town now is, in the form of two long walls protecting the port . There are remains of a wall of massive rectangular blocks of stone at the modern Porta Garibaldi on the south . It does not appear in history before 396 B.C., and seems to have owed its importance mainly to its naturally strong position . The only ancient remains on the mountain are those of a small building in good polygonal work (a style of construction very rare in Sicily), consisting of a passage on each side of which a chamber opens . The doorways are of finely-cut stone, and of Greek type, and the date, though uncertain, cannot, from the careful jointing of the blocks, be very early . On the summit of the promontory are extensive remains of a Saracenic castle . The new town was founded at the foot of the mountain, by the shore, by Roger II. in 1131, and the cathedral was begun in the same year . The exterior is well preserved, and is largely decorated with interlacing pointed arches; the windows also are pointed .

On each side of the

facade is a massive tower of four storeys . The round-headed Norman portal is worthy of note . The interior was restored in 1559, though the pointed arches of the nave, borne by ancient granite columns, are still visible: and the only mosaics preserved are those of the apse and the last bay of the choir: they are remarkably fine specimens of the art of the period (1148) and, though restored in 1859-1862, have suffered much less than those at Palermo and Monreale from the process . The figure of the Saviour is especially fine . Thegroinedvaulting of the roof is visible in the choir and the right transept, while. the rest of the church has a wooden roof . Fine cloisters, coeval with the cathedral, adjoin it . (See G . Hubbard in Journal of the R.I.B.A. xv . 333 sqq., 1908.) The harbour is comparatively small . (T . As.) CEHEGfIN, a town of south-eastern Spain, in the province of Murcia, on the right bank of the river Caravaca, a small tributary of the Segura . Pop .

(1900) 11,6o1 . Cehegin has a thriving

trade in farm produce, especially wine, olive oil and hemp; and various kinds of marble are obtained from quarries near the town . Some of the older houses, however, as well as the parish church and the convent of San Francisco, which still has well-defined Roman inscriptions on its walls, are built of stone from the ruins of Begastri, a Roman colony which stood on a small adjacent hill known as the Cabecico de Roenas . The name Cehegin is sometimes connected by Spanish antiquaries with that of the Zenaga, Senhaja or Senajeh, a North African tribe, which invaded Spain in the 11th century .