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  2. Sicily - Wikipedia

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    The Coastal towers in Sicily (Torri costiere della Sicilia) are 218 old watchtowers along the coast. In Sicily, the first coastal towers date back to the late Norman period. From 1360 the threat came from the south, from North Africa to Maghreb, mainly to Barbary pirates and corsairs of Barbary Coast.

  3. Strait of Sicily - Wikipedia

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    The Strait of Sicily (also known as Sicilian Strait, Sicilian Channel, Channel of Sicily, Sicilian Narrows and Pantelleria Channel; Italian: Canale di Sicilia or the Stretto di Sicilia; Sicilian: Canali di Sicilia or Strittu di Sicilia, Arabic: مضيق صقلية Maḍīq Ṣiqillīyah or مضيق الوطن القبلي Maḍīq al-Waṭan al-Qiblī) is the strait between Sicily and Tunisia.

  4. List of islands of Italy - Wikipedia

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    The largest island is Sicily with an area of 25,711 km 2 (9,927 sq mi). ... Italy has a coastline and border of 7,600 km (4,700 mi) on the Mediterranean Sea. The ...

  5. Geography of Italy - Wikipedia

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    Only 140 km (87 mi) separate Sicily and Africa (the Tunisian peninsula), by the channel of Sicily. [5] To the east, Salento is 70 km (43 mi) from the Albanian coast, [6] at the narrowest point of the Strait of Otranto. It is Capo d'Otranto (also called Punta Palascìa), located at 40° 7' north latitude and 18° 31' east longitude.

  6. Salina, Sicily - Wikipedia

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    Salina (Italian pronunciation:) is one of the Aeolian Islands north of Sicily, Southern Italy. It is the second largest island in the archipelago. Salina is divided between three comuni: Santa Marina on the eastern coast, Malfa to the north, and Leni to the south-west. From Leni down towards the sea is the village of Rinella.

  7. Strait of Messina - Wikipedia

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    The Strait of Messina (Italian: Stretto di Messina; Sicilian: Strittu di Missina) is a narrow strait between the eastern tip of Sicily (Punta del Faro) and the western tip of Calabria (Punta Pezzo) in Southern Italy.

  8. Southern Italy - Wikipedia

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    Also during this period, Greek colonies were established in places as widely separated as the eastern coast of the Black Sea, Eastern Libya and Massalia . The Greek Temple of Concordia, Valle dei Templi, Agrigento, Sicily. They included settlements in Sicily and the southern part of the Italian peninsula.

  9. Catania - Wikipedia

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    The city is located on Sicily's east coast, facing the Ionian Sea at the base of the active volcano Mount Etna. It is the capital of the 58-municipality region known as the Metropolitan City of Catania , which is the seventh-largest metropolitan area in Italy.

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