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Agrigento

American  
[ah-gree-jen-taw] / ˌɑ griˈdʒɛn tɔ /

noun

  1. a city in southern Italy.


Agrigento British  
/ aɡriˈdʒɛnto /

noun

  1. Former name (until 1927): Girgenti. a town in Italy, in SW Sicily: site of six Greek temples. Pop: 54 619 (2001)

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“Our aim is to transfer them as fast as possible,” said Filippo Romano, the prefect of Agrigento, the province in Sicily which includes Lampedusa.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

"In the nearby provinces of Palermo and Agrigento, five out of 10 of the arrested become turncoats," he told Reuters speaking from his home in Marsala, on the western tip of Sicily.

From Reuters ● Jan. 25, 2023

Greek forces from Himera and the neighboring colonies of Agrigento and Syracuse battled their great rivals, the Carthaginians, who hailed from the African coast of the Mediterranean.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 2, 2022

In a 2014 Facebook post Calogero Pisano, a party co-ordinator in Agrigento in Sicily, compared leader Giorgia Meloni to "a great statesman of 70 years ago".

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2022

These grillo grapes are grown organically on a steep slope in the Agrigento region of southern Italy.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2020

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