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Caltanissetta

American  
[kal-tuh-nuh-set-uh, kahl-tah-nees-set-tah] / ˌkæl tə nəˈsɛt ə, ˌkɑl tɑ nisˈsɛt tɑ /

noun

  1. a city in central Sicily: cathedral; Norman monastery.


Caltanissetta British  
/ kaltanisˈsɛtta /

noun

  1. a city in central Sicily: sulphur mines. Pop: 61 438 (2001)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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On the road from Caltanissetta to Palermo, Mamud Shamsu watches the cars speed by.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2018

In Mussomeli, an ancient town near Caltanissetta in the middle of Sicily, orange waste products are used to make biogas which is turned into electricity.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2017

Ofner spent the year entirely on the Challenger Tour, playing in spots such as Poprad Tatry, Slovakia, and Ostrava, Czech Republic, and Caltanissetta, Italy.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2017

Most of them would be taken to Sicily’s expulsion center, in Caltanissetta, and flown home.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2017

It all seemed to me very healthy and like the accounts one reads and the illustrations one sees of life in a new country, with the advantage that Caltanissetta is only about eight kilometres away. 

From Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions by Henry Festing Jones

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