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Sicily was merged with the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. Although today an Autonomous Region, with special statute, of the Republic of Italy, it has its own distinct culture. Sicily is both the largest region of the modern state of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
11 de may. de 2024 · Sicily was inhabited 10,000 years ago. Its strategic location at the centre of the Mediterranean has made the island a crossroads of history, a pawn of conquest and empire, and a melting pot for a dozen or more ethnic groups whose warriors or merchants sought its shores.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
29 de may. de 2014 · Early History. There were three indigenous groups on ancient Sicily: the Elymi in the western part of the island, the Sicani in the centre, and the Sicels in the east - the latter being the root of the island's name. According to Thucydides, the origins of these groups could be traced back to Troy, Iberia, and mainland Italy ...
- Mark Cartwright
The history of Sicily has seen it usually controlled by greater powers—Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, Islamic, Hohenstaufen, Catalan, Spanish —but also experiencing periods of independence as under the Greeks and later as the Emirate then Kingdom of Sicily.
La historia de Sicilia ha visto a esta isla del Mediterráneo, actual región de Italia, controlada normalmente por grandes potencias— Roma, vándalos, bizantinos, sarracenos, los Hohenstaufen, los aragoneses, los españoles —pero también experimentó breves períodos de independencia, como bajo los griegos y más tarde como el Emirato y luego Reino de...
Sicily was ruled during the Early Middle Ages by the Vandals, the Ostrogoths, the Byzantine Empire, and the Emirate of Sicily.
29 de may. de 2014 · El legado histórico de Sicilia hoy en día incluye algunos de los monumentos antiguos más impresionantes y mejor preservados en el Mediterráneo, que son testimonio de la rica historia cultural de la isla.
