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ancient town of the interior of Sicily, a Cretan colony, according to legend, and famous for an ancient temple of the Matres which aroused the greed of Verres . Its site is uncertain; some topographers have identified it with Gangi, a town 20 M . S.S.E. of Cefalu, but only on the ground of the similarity of the two names . See C . Hiilsen in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopddie, v . 2568 . ENID, a city and the county-seat of Garfield county, Oklahoma, U.S.A., about 55 M . N.W. of Guthrie . Pop . (1900) 3444; (1907) 10,087 (355 of negro descent); (191o) 13,799 . Enid is served by the St Louis & San Francisco, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railways, and by several branch lines, and is an important railway centre . It is the seat of the Oklahoma Christian University (1907; co-educational) .

Enid is situated in a flourishing agricultural and stock-raising region, of which it is the commercial centre, and has various manufactures, including

lumber, brick, tile and flour . Natural gas was discovered near the city in 1907 . Enid was founded in 1893 and was chartered as a city in the same year .