• The Sicani or Sicanians were one of three ancient peoples of Sicily present at the time of Phoenician and Greek colonization. The Sicani dwelt east of...
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    The Monti Sicani are a mountain chain in central-southern Sicily, southern Italy, included between the Agrigento and Palermo. The name also indicates a...
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    for Homer, Robin Lane Fox notes. It is possible that the Sicels and the Sicani of the Iron Age had consisted of an Illyrian population who (as with the...
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    identity and culture of the Elymians. They are indistinguishable from their Sicani neighbours in the archaeological record of the early Iron Age (c. 1100–c...
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    non-Indo-European or pre-Indo-European heritage include the Etruscans, the Elymians and Sicani of Sicily, and the prehistoric Sardinians, who gave birth to the Nuragic...
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    peoples of Italy: the Sicani, the Elymians and the Sicels. The most prominent and by far the earliest of these were the Sicani, who (Thucydides writes)...
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    Stone Age hunters or farmers who had arrived from Sicily, possibly the Sicani. The extinction of the dwarf hippos, giant swans and dwarf elephants has...
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    of Italy included the Etruscans, the Ligures, the Adriatic Veneti, the Sicani and Siculi (in Sicily), the Rhaetians, the Iapygians, the Nuragic peoples...
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  • assimilated by the Volsci) Querquetulani Sicani, Latium (Latium Sicani) (not to be confused with the Sicily's Sicani) Sisolenses Tolerienses (in Toleria or...
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    seized cult images wrought by Daedalus from their local predecessors, the Sicani. Daedalus and the myths associated with him are often depicted in paintings...
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  • Germanic peoples) and Normans. Sicily: the Italic Sicels and Morgetes, the Sicani, Elymians and Greek and Phoenician colonies. Eastern Europe: the Veneti...
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    single combat. Heracles fought and killed Cacus. Heracles fought with the Sicani people, killing many including the famous Leucaspis. Heracles encountered...
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    the Adriatic Coast with settlements around the region of Ancona. Rutuli Sicani Ligures Proto-Indo-Europeans Italic and Celtic languages are commonly grouped...
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    speakers (Etruscans, Ligures, Rhaetians and Camunni in mainland Italy, Sicani and Elymians in Sicily and the Nuragic people in Sardinia). During the imperial...
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    by native Italics in three major groups: the Elymians in the west, the Sicani in the centre, and the Sicels (source of the name Sicily) in the east. It...
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    Arabic Medieval Greek Mediterranean Lingua Franca Old Norman Norman Phoenician Punic Sicani Siculian Siculo-Arabic Southern Italian Koiné Vulgar Latin...
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  • province of Agrigento, in Sicily. It is the second highest peak of Monti Sicani after Rocca Busambra. It is located in the commons of Cammarata and San...
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    (2014), "Ethnobotanical investigation on wild medicinal plants in the Monti Sicani Regional Park (Sicily, Italy)", Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 153 (3): 568–586...
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    Cammarata, elevation 1,579 metres (5,180 ft) above sea level, part of the Monti Sicani chain, is nearby. Cianciana borders the following municipalities: Alessandria...
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    Addaura from that period have been found. The original inhabitants were Sicani people who, according to Thucydides, arrived from the Iberian Peninsula...
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    and pre-Indo-European speakers (Etruscans, Ligures, Rhaetians Camunni, Sicani, Nuragic peoples, as well as settlers from Phoenicia and Carthage). Other...
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    Rocca Busambra is the highest peak in the Monti Sicani, in western Sicily, southern Italy. It has an elevation of 1,613 metres (5,292 ft). The mount has...
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  • and had settled on the banks of the river Crinisus, in the country of the Sicani. When afterwards the Trojan refugees led by Aeneas also arrived there, Elymus...
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    Leutarni), the Opicans, and the Ausones. It has been proposed that the Sicani were originally an Iberian tribe.[citation needed] The Elymi, too, may have...
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    Monti Sicani, in Sicily, southern Italy. It has an elevation of 1,420 metres (4,659 ft), giving it the fourth highest elevation in the Monti Sicani after...
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    but had never penetrated far inland. They had traded with the Elymian, Sicani and Siculi communities and ultimately withdrew without resistance to Motya...
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  • Tartessian Paleo-Corsican Paleo-Sardinian Camunic Ligurian North Picene Sicani Tyrsenian Eteocretan Eteocypriot Minoan West Asia Indo-European Afroasiatic...
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    castle. It is not certain if Forza d'Agrò area was first settled by the Sicani or by the Sicels. There may have been a village or commercial port called...
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    Arabic Medieval Greek Mediterranean Lingua Franca Old Norman Norman Phoenician Punic Sicani Siculian Siculo-Arabic Southern Italian Koiné Vulgar Latin...
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    of Trapani, first known as Drepana, then Drepanon, was inhabited by the Sicani and the Elymi becoming a prosperous Phoenician trading centre by the 8th...
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