Scordiaball

"commune of Scordiaball Scordiaball, or COMMUNE OF SCORDIABALL, is a communeball
THE ORIGINS OF THE NAME:
The origins of the name are not certain.
A Greek-Byzantine origin would refer to the term σκόρδον (skórdon) – a variant of the form σκόροδον (skórodon) – which means very simply "garlic". In this regard, it is useful to at least refer to the ritual use that garlic had during schirophoria (σκιροφορια) or thesmophoria. From here we could therefore hypothesize an unattested and reconstructed entry in *Σκορδία (Skordía).
Another hypothesis was put forward starting from the rereading of Aeschylus's Le etnae, where the story told is set half in a city called Ξουθία (Xoûthia) in ancient Greek and Latinized as Xuthia. This toponym originates from the name of the hero Ξοῦθος (Xoûthos).
This last hypothesis has also been suggested with reference to the etymology of Χurtinu, an ancient Sicilian spelling of Sciurtinu (Italianized today as Sortino). The natural phonetic evolution of Sicilian in fact sees a passage of Latin and Greek sounds from ⟨x⟩ /ks/ transforming into ⟨sc⟩ /ʃ/ (see Sciacca, Craxi).
Its Sicilian form still remains Scurdìa today, from which the Italian form of Scordia consequently descends. Its inhabitants are currently known in Sicilian as scurdiotu (m.s.), scurdiota (f.s.) and scurdioti (m. and f. pl.), whose ending -ώτης (-ṓtēs) is notably of Greek derivation, first adapted into Vulgar Latin and then in Sicilian. The Italian demonym was instead adapted into Scordian.
==History==
Archaeological evidence, present in the surroundings of the town (Cava, Grotta del Drago, Puleri, Casale San Basilio, Scordia Soprana, etc.), demonstrates the human presence of the area since the Bronze and Iron Ages by the Sicani and the Sicels, as well as in the Greek-Sicilian, Roman and Byzantine eras. Seat of a lordship of the Kingdom of Sicily, in the mid-12th century, the hamlet of Scordia saw some of its lands granted to the Templars.
Disputed between the pope and the heirs of Frederick II of Swabia, the fiefdom was assigned in 1255 to Nicolò di Sanducia, who was succeeded by Giacomo and Virgilio di Scordia. In 1308, the church of S. Maria was registered in this small rural center by the pontifical collectors. During the 14th century, perhaps due to the unfortunate political-administrative choices of the feudal lord Rosso Rosso, the farmhouse declined, until it disappeared completely, reducing itself to the status of a "flat" (i.e. uninhabited) fiefdom. The attempts at repopulation, promoted by the lords of the day in 1399, 1457 and 1508, proved useless.
The re-foundation of the center in the modern age is due to the initiative of Antonio Branciforte, first prince of Scordia. Having obtained the licentia populandi from Philip III, king of Sicily, in 1628 through the payment of 400 onze, the prince managed to promote, thanks to an intelligent attraction policy, the rebirth of the village, laying the foundations for future demographic and urban growth. The noble Branciforte and Trabia family governed Scordia until the abolition of feudalism (Sicilian Constitution of 1812). Following the suppression of the Kingdom of Sicily and its unification into the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, in 1816, and the subsequent administrative reform of 1819, Scordia, until then a fraction of Militello, obtained municipal autonomy.
During the 19th century, a new class of entrepreneurs was formed in the town, as well as a class of professionals and intellectuals who contributed significantly to the economic and cultural development of the town. Among the emerging families of the period were the De Cristofaro and Vecchio-Majorana families. A figure of great importance, advocate of policies serving the territory, was Ippolito De Cristofaro, deputy of the Kingdom of Italy from 1879 to 1892, and subsequently president of the Provincial Council of Catania (1896-1905). He promoted the construction of the Scordia railway station, an important infrastructure destined to play a key role in the development of the citrus fruit trade throughout the twentieth century. In the second half of the nineteenth century Scordia was involved in the spread of spiritualism in Sicily through the activity of the Spiritist Society founded by the British Elena Thovez, married to a De Cristofaro.
Today Scordia is one of the largest municipalities in the Caltagirone district, and among the main citrus growing centers in Sicily, both for the quality of the product and for its marketing. Over thirty companies are involved in the processing of oranges in the winter season. The economy is also supported by various types of craft activities, including manufacturing industries.
FRIENDS:
* Cataniaball friends coz is my metropolitan city and we hate Palermoball 
 
NEUTRAL:
* Acirealeball mmmmmmhh...friend whit palermo?
ENEMIES:
* Palermoball IS ARANCINO NOT ARANCINA
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scordia(page of the info i founded)
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