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VITTORIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 152 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VITTORIA  , a

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town of Sicily in the province of Syracuse, 95 m . W.S.W. of Syracuse by
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rail (42 m.
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direct), founded in 16o5 by Giovanni
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Alphonso Henriquez, who named it after his
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mother, the famous Vittoria Colonna . It is a prosperous town s Vitruvius names
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Cicero and Lucretius as
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post nostram memoriam nascentes . 3 The architect being at that time also the contractor . in the centre of a fertile
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district, with the largest wine trade in Sicily . Pop . (1901) 30,832 (town), 32,219 (commune) .

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