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Following the
suggestion of
Andrea Camilleri, a
Sicilian writer of
Agrigentine origin, the
historic city
centre was
renamed to the
Sicilian name "Girgenti"...
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after a
battle in
which he
defeated the
Agrigentines and
their allies; but was
recovered by the
Agrigentines in the
course of the
following summer. (Diod...
- (on his father's suggestion) a shy,
withdrawn girl of a good
family of
Agrigentine origin educated by the nuns of San Vincenzo:
Maria Antonietta Portulano...
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against Hiero, but was
defeated after a
stubborn and
bloody struggle. The
Agrigentines immediately took
advantage of this
disaster to
expel him from
their city...
- Sicily,
Cicero found what was
presumed to be Archimedes' tomb near the
Agrigentine gate in Syracuse, in a
neglected condition and
overgrown with bushes...
- city by
betrayal in 397 BC.
Agathocles later controlled Enna. When the
Agrigentines under Xenodicus began to
proclaim the
restoration of the
other cities...
- he
elsewhere includes the Himeraeans, as well as the
Selinuntines and
Agrigentines,
among the
exiled citizens that were
allowed by the treaty, concluded...
- 1863, the town
changed its name into
Porto Empedocle in
memory of the
Agrigentine philosopher Empedocles. In 2003, the town
changed its
official denomination...
- Great, and Himilco, son of
Hanno the Great, set out at dawn, and took Agrigentum; and they [the
Agrigentines] surrendered,
including those who had fled....
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defeated Agis in 331 BC. He was thus glad to
accept the
offer from the
Agrigentines who had
asked Sparta for ****istance in 314 BC
against Agathocles of Syracuse...
