Palermo (Italian: [palrmo] ( listen), Sicilian: Palermu, Latin: Panormus, from Greek: , Panormos, Arabic: , Balarm; Phoenician: , Ziz) is a city in Insular Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is located in the northwest of the island of Sicily, right by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

The city was founded in 734 BC by the Phoenicians as Ziz ('flower'). Palermo then became a possession of Carthage, before becoming part of the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and eventually part of the Byzantine Empire, for over a thousand years. The Greeks named the city Panormus meaning 'complete port'. From 831 to 1072 the city was under Arab rule during the Emirate of Sicily when the city first became a capital. The Arabs shifted the Greek name into Balarm, the root for Palermo's present-day name. Following the Norman reconquest, Palermo became the capital of a new kingdom (from 1130 to 1816), the Kingdom of Sicily and the capital of the Holy Roman Empire under Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor and Conrad IV of Germany, King of the Romans. Eventually Sicily would be united with the Kingdom of Naples to form the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies until the Italian unification of 1860.

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. Palermo
2. 734 BC
3.
4. Panormos
5.
6. Balarm
7. From 831 to 1072
8. Italian unification
9. Ziz
10. flowe
11. northwest of Sicily
12. Yes
13. history, architecture and gastronomy
14. yes
15. Gulf of Palermo
1. What is the city being discussed?
2. When was it established?
3. What was the name given to it by the Greeks?
4. How does that translate?
5. Which means?
6. How did the Arabs refer to it
7. When did they rule?
8. What occured in 1860?
9. How did the Phoenicians refer to the city?
10. Which means?
11. Where is it located?
12. Is the city recognized for its cousine?
13. What else?
14. Are there any significant bodies of water nearby?
15. Can you name one?