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