سسلي

سسلي (اطالوي ۽ سسلي: Sicilia)، سرڪاري طور تي سسلي علائقو (اطالوي: Regione Siciliana؛ سسلين: Riggiuni Siciliana)، وچ ميڊيٽرينين سمنڊ ۾ هڪ ٻيٽ آهي ۽ اٽلي جي ويهن علائقن مان هڪ آهي، جيڪا مکيه يورپ کنڊ ۾ اطالوي جزيري نما جي ڏکڻ ۾ واقع آهي. 47 لک جي آبادي سان، جن ۾ هن جو گاديءَ واري شهر پاليرمو ۽ ان جي چوڌاري علائقي جي 12 لک جي آبادي شامل آهي، اهو ميڊيٽرينين سمنڊ ۾ سڀ کان وڏو ۽ سڀ کان وڌيڪ آبادي وارو ٻيٽ آهي. Sicily (Italian and ), officially the Sicilian Region (; ), is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea and one of the twenty regions of Italy, situated south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe. With 4.7 million inhabitants, including 1.2 million in and around the capital city of Palermo, it is both the largest and most populous island in the Mediterranean Sea. Sicily is named after the Sicels, who inhabited the eastern part of the island during the Iron Age. Sicily has a rich and unique culture in arts, music, literature, cuisine, and architecture. Its most prominent landmark is Mount Etna, the tallest active volcano in Europe, and one of the most active in the world, currently 3,403 m (11,165 ft) high. The island has a typical Mediterranean climate. It is separated from Calabria by the Strait of Messina. It is one of the five Italian autonomous regions and is generally considered part of Southern Italy. The earliest archaeological record of human activity on the island dates to around 14,000 BC. By around 750 BC, Sicily had three Phoenician and a dozen Greek colonies along its coasts, becoming one of the centers of Magna Graecia. The Sicilian Wars of 580–265 BC were fought between the Carthaginians and Greeks, and the Punic Wars of 264–146 BC were fought between Rome and Carthage. The Roman province of Sicilia ended with the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. Sicily was ruled during the Early Middle Ages by the Vandals, the Ostrogoths, the Byzantine Empire, and the Emirate of Sicily. The Norman conquest of southern Italy led to the creation of the County of Sicily in 1071, which was succeeded by the Kingdom of Sicily in 1130. In 1816, the kingdom unified with the Kingdom of Naples to form the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Following the Sicilian Vespers in 1282, Sicily was ruled by Aragon and then Spain, either in personal union with the crown or by a cadet branch, except for a brief period of Savoy and then Habsburg rule in 1713–1735. Following the Expedition of the Thousand, an invasion led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, and a subsequent plebiscite, the island became part of the newly unified Italy in 1860. Sicily was given special status as an autonomous administrative division on 15 May 1946, 18 days before the 1946 Italian institutional referendum. حوالا ٻاهريان ڳنڍڻا