Sicily | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-14

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Sicily


00:02:21 1 Geography
00:05:47 1.1 Rivers
00:06:24 1.2 Climate
00:08:18 2 Flora and fauna
00:09:52 3 History
00:10:01 3.1 Ancient tribes
00:11:56 3.2 Phoenician, Carthaginian, Greek and Roman period
00:15:23 3.3 Germanic and Byzantine periods (440–965)
00:15:36 3.3.1 Germanic (440–535)
00:16:36 3.3.2 Byzantine (535–965)
00:19:58 3.4 Arab Period (827–1091)
00:22:07 3.5 Norman Sicily (1038–1198)
00:24:19 3.6 Kingdom of Sicily
00:25:26 3.7 Hohenstaufen dynasty
00:27:06 3.8 Sicily under Aragonese rule
00:30:25 3.9 Italian unification
00:32:40 3.10 20th and 21st centuries
00:34:19 4 Demographics
00:35:49 4.1 Emigration
00:36:46 5 Politics
00:38:22 5.1 Administrative divisions
00:38:54 6 Economy
00:40:07 6.1 Agriculture
00:42:25 6.2 Industry and manufacturing
00:43:44 6.3 Statistics
00:43:52 6.3.1 GDP growth
00:44:08 6.3.2 Economic sectors
00:44:24 6.3.3 Unemployment rate
00:44:40 7 Transport
00:44:49 7.1 Roads
00:45:32 7.2 Railways
00:47:01 7.3 Airports
00:48:17 7.4 Ports
00:50:02 7.5 Planned bridge
00:51:03 8 Tourism
00:52:09 8.1 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
00:54:16 8.1.1 Tentative Sites
00:54:37 8.2 Archeological sites
00:55:59 8.3 Castles
00:56:11 8.4 Coastal towers
00:57:26 9 Culture
00:58:11 9.1 Art and architecture
00:59:03 9.1.1 Sicilian Baroque
01:00:16 9.2 Music and film
01:01:14 9.3 Literature
01:02:48 9.4 Language
01:04:22 9.5 Science
01:06:18 9.6 Education
01:07:33 9.7 Religion
01:08:57 9.8 Cuisine
01:11:19 9.9 Sports
01:13:38 9.10 Popular culture
01:16:51 9.11 Regional symbols
01:19:34 10 Notable people
01:19:44 11 See also



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Sicily (Italian: Sicilia [siˈtʃiːlja]; Sicilian: Sicilia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is an autonomous region of Italy, in Southern Italy along with surrounding minor islands, officially referred to as Regione Siciliana.
Sicily is located in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula, from which it is separated by the narrow Strait of Messina. Its most prominent landmark is Mount Etna, the tallest active volcano in Europe, and one of the most active in the world, currently 3,329 m (10,922 ft) high. The island has a typical Mediterranean climate.
The earliest archaeological evidence of human activity on the island dates from as early as 12,000 BC. By around 750 BC, Sicily had three Phoenician and a dozen Greek colonies and, for the next 600 years, it was the site of the Sicilian Wars and the Punic Wars. After 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 Kingdom of Sicily, which was subsequently ruled by the Hohenstaufen, the Capetian House of Anjou, Spain, and the House of Habsburg. It was finally unified under the House of Bourbon with the Kingdom of Naples as the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. It became part of Italy in 1860 following the Expedition of the Thousand, a revolt led by Giuseppe Garibaldi during the Italian unification, and a plebiscite. Sicily was given special status as an autonomous region on 15th May 1946, 18 days before the Italian constitutional referendum of 1946. Albeit, much of the autonomy still remains unapplied, especially financial autonomy, because the autonomy-activating laws have been deferred to be approved by the parithetic committee (50% Italian State, 50% Regione Siciliana), since 1946.
Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature, cuisine, and architecture. It is also home to important archaeological and ancient sites, such as the Necropolis of Pantalica, the Valley of the Temples, Erice and Selinunte.