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ENGYON , an See also: ancient See also: town of the interior of See also: Sicily, a Cretan colony, according to See also: legend, and famous for an ancient See also: temple of the Matres which aroused the greed of See also: Verres
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Its site is uncertain; some topographers have identified it with Gangi, a town 20 M
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S.S.E. of See also: Cefalu, but only on the ground of the similarity of the two names
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See C
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Hiilsen in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopddie, v
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2568
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ENID, a city and the county-seat of See also: Garfield county, Oklahoma, U.S.A., about 55 M
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N.W. of See also: Guthrie
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Pop
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(1900) 3444; (1907) 10,087 (355 of See also: negro descent); (191o) 13,799
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Enid is served by the St See also: Louis &
See also: San Francisco, the See also: Atchison, See also: Topeka & See also: Santa Fe, and the See also: Chicago, See also: Rock See also: Island & Pacific See also: railways, and by several branch lines, and is an important railway centre
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It is the seat of the Oklahoma Christian University (1907; co-educational)
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Enid is situated in a flourishing agricultural and stock-raising region, of which it is the commercial centre, and has various manufactures, including See also: lumber, brick, tile and See also: flour
.
Natural See also: gas was discovered near the city in 1907
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Enid was founded in 1893 and was chartered as a city in the same See also: year
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