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USTICA

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 811 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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USTICA  ,•an

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island off the N.
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coast of
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Sicily, Ora M . N.N.W. of
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Palermo . Pop . (1861) 2231; (1901) 1916 . It is the Osteodes of the Greeks, but in
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Roman times was known as Ustica . The island is entirely volcanic and subject to earthquakes, and is fertile . There is a considerable penal
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colony . There are some Roman tombs excavated in the
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rock .

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