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GRAMMICHELE , a See also: town of See also: Sicily, in the province of See also: Catania, 55 in
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S.W. of it by See also: rail and 31 M. See also: direct
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Pop
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(1901) 15,075
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It was built in 1693, after the destruction by an See also: earthquake of the old town of Occhiala to the See also: north; the latter, on account of the similarity of name, is generally identified with Echetla, a frontier city between Syracusan and Carthaginian territory in the See also: time of See also: Hiero II., which appears to have been originally a Sicel city in which See also: Greek See also: civilization prevailed from the 5th century onwards
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To the See also: east of Grammichele a cave shrine of See also: Demeter, with See also: fine votive terra-cottas, has been discovered
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See Mon
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Lincei, vii
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(1897), 201; Not. degli scavi (1902), 223
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