MODICA  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily, in the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• SYRACUSE
• SYRACUSE (Gr. Mvpaaovoat; Lat. Syracusae, Ital. Siracusa)

Syracuse, 57 M . W.S.W. of Syracuse by See also:

• RAIL

rail and 33 M. See also:

• DIRECT

direct . Pop . (1901), 48,962 . It lies on a See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill between two valleys; the hill, crowned by the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church of S . Giorgio, reconstructed in the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, was the site of the Sicel town of Motyca, while the See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• PART

part of the town extends along the See also:

• RIVER

river Mauro, an inundation of which did much damage in See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1902 . Remains of megalithic buildings, apparently, however, houses of the See also:

• BYZANTINE

Byzantine See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period, are described in Notizie degli Scavi, 1896, 242 seq . Six See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles to the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east is the valley known as the Cava d'Ispica. with hundreds of grottoes cut in its rocky sides; of these only few are Sicel tombs, the See also:

• MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority being catacombs or open tombs of the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian and Byzantine periods, or even See also:

• CAVE (Lat. cavea, from caves, hollow)
• CAVE, EDWARD (1691–1754)
• CAVE, WILLIAM (1637–1713)

cave-dwellings of the latter See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age . See P . Orsi in Notizie degli Scavi (1905), 431 .