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	Sicily Hotels and tourist information guide
		Sicily, Sicilia in Italian, is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 sq.
		The Sicily is the greater island of the Mediterranean and is the region more extended and more meridional of Italy.
		The position of Sicily as a stepping stone of sorts in the center of the Mediterranean Basin has lent it strategic importance throughout history, resulting in an endless procession of settlers and conquerors.
	www.sicily-hotels.it /guide/sicily.htm (696 words)

	Bronte, Sicily - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The district of Bronte in Sicily lies near Mount Etna.
		It is slightly northwest of Mount Etna, on the side of the valley of the Simeto river.
		Bronte is mostly reliant on farming for its economy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bronte,_Sicily (210 words)

	Sicily Encyclopedia Article @ KarrNet.com (Karr Net) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sicily is connected to the Italian peninsula by the national railway company, Trenitalia, though trains are loaded onto ferries for the crossing from the mainland.
		Sicily is well known as a country of art: many poets and writers were born on this region, starting from the Sicilian School in the early 13th century, which inspired much subsequent Italian poetry and created the first Italian standard.
		Sicily was then ruled by the Byzantine Empire until the Muslim Arab conquest of AD Up until the 10th century, Sicialians primarily spoke Greek or Italo-Greek dialects.
	www.karrnet.com /encyclopedia/Sicily (2072 words)

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		The Aeolian IslandsAeolian islands to the north are administratively a part of Sicily, as are the Aegadian Islands to the west, Ustica Island to the north-west, and the Pelagian Islands to the south-west.
		Sicily is also home to two prominent folk art traditions, both of which draw heavily on the island's norman peopleNorman influence.
		Conflict between the Hohenstaufen house and the Papacy led in 1266 to Sicily's conquest by Charles I of NaplesCharles I, duke of Anjou: opposition to French officialdom and taxation led in 1282 to insurrection (the Sicilian Vespers) and successful invasion by king Peter III of AragonPeter III of AragonAragón.
	www.dancinglessonsfromgod.co.uk /holiday-destinations/holiday-destinations_0196.txt (2260 words)

	Bronte Insieme/Economy - Bronte's pistachio, green gold of Bronte
		Bronte is the Italian capital of the pistachio.
		The "green gold of Bronte" ("l'oro verde") in the various phases of ripening and (low to the right) an old machine, invented by the brontese Nunzio Di Bella, to separate ("sgrollare") the husk, the leathery wrapping that covers the fruit.
		In Bronte there are Cooperatives for the working and marketing of pistachio and a confectioners association that utilize the fruit for their products as pastry, cakes, ice cream, fillette, doves, nougat, creams and crushed pistachio sauce.
	www.bronteinsieme.it /BrIns_en/4ec_en/pist_en.html (1394 words)

	:::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Aeolian Islands Aeolian islands to the north are administratively a part of Sicily, as are the Aegadian Islands and Pantelleria Island to the west, Ustica Island to the north-west, and the Pelagian Islands to the south-west.
		Sicily was colonized by Phoenicians and Punic settlers from Carthage and by Greece Greeks, starting in the 8th century BC.
		Conflict between the Hohenstaufen house and the Papacy led in 1266 to Sicily's conquest by Charles I of Naples Charles I, duke of Anjou: opposition to French officialdom and taxation led in 1282 to insurrection (the Sicilian Vespers) and successful invasion by king Peter III of Aragon Peter III of Aragon Aragón.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Sicily.html (2608 words)

	999 Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Aeolian islands to the north are administratively a part of Sicily, as are the Aegadian Islands and Pantelleria Island to the west, Ustica Island to the north-west, and the Pelagian Islands to the south-west.
		Sicily is well known as a country of art: many poets and writers were born on this region, starting from the Sicilian School in the early 13th century, which inspired much subsequent Italian poetry and created the first Italian standard.
		Conflict between the Hohenstaufen house and the Papacy led in 1266 to Sicily's conquest by Charles I, duke of Anjou: opposition to French officialdom and taxation led in 1282 to insurrection (the Sicilian Vespers) and successful invasion by king Peter III of Arag³n.
	www.999sicily.com (2480 words)

	Bronte Village in West Oakville, Ontario - History of Bronte
		Officially founded in 1834, the Village of Bronte was named as a tribute to British Naval Hero, Admiral Nelson, who was granted the "Duchy of Bronte" in Sicily for his naval victories.
		Bronte's first harbour was completed 22 years after the village was founded.
		Today, Bronte is in the midst of a renaissance as a thriving centre of commerce, tourism, and development.
	www.brontevillage.net /history.php (299 words)

	Waverley Library - Bronte Historical Walk
		Bronte and Tamarama, popular for surfing and picnics, are part of the beach culture of Waverley, with marine life and vegetation being just as important to the area's heritage as is historic Bronte House.
		Bronte Park, sometimes called "Bronte the Beautiful", is set in a sheltered valley behind the beach and is ideal for family picnics.
		Bronte Baths was built in 1887 and the Bond family were its lessees for many years.
	www.waverley.nsw.gov.au /library/localstudies/walks/bronte.asp (872 words)

	Sicily - Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sicily (Sicilia in Italian and Sicilian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 sq.
		Sicily was the scene of major revolutionary movements in 1820 and 1848 against Bourbon denial of constitutional government.
		Sicily's population is approximately 5 million, and there are an additional 10 million people of Sicilian descent around the world, mostly in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Australia and fellow EU countries.
	amandadaybook.blogmobs.com /Current_events/Sicily (2957 words)

	Best of Sicily - Modern History, Culture, Genealogy, Language
		A number of citizens who remained in Sicily actively opposed Fascism, and at great personal risk; the writer Vitaliano Brancati was an outspoken opponent, while Luigi Pirandello was an advocate of the regime, and owed his Nobel Prize for Literature, at least in part, to Mussolini's coercive efforts with several members of the Nobel Foundation.
		To a great extent, the history of Sicily is the history of families, and a few of the island's aristocratic houses, such as the Lanza and Alliata, trace their lineages from the Norman era.
		Although Sicily boasts the best genealogical resources in Italy, access to those resources is not always a simple matter, and the work of tracing a lineage usually takes a great deal of time and a certain amount of money.
	www.bestofsicily.com /history3.htm (3095 words)

	Sicily Encyclopedia Article @ TellyBellies.com (Telly Bellies) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Officially, the Stretto di Messina, S.p.A. is scheduled to commence construction of the world's longest suspension bridge, the Strait of Messina Bridge, in the second half of 2006.
		Sicily is also home to two prominent folk art traditions, both of which draw heavily on the island's Norman influence.
		For a brief period (662 - 668) during Byzantine rule Syracuse was the imperial capital, until Constans II was assassinated.
	www.tellybellies.com /encyclopedia/Sicily (2076 words)

	Wikipedia: Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
		In 1799 he was promoted to Rear Admiral of the Red, the fifth highest rank in the Royal Navy.
		In July, he aided with the reconquest of Naples, and was made Duke of Bronte by the Neapolitan king.
		His personal problems, and upper-level disappointment at his professional conduct caused him to be rotated back to England, but public knowledge of his affection for Lady Hamilton eventually induced the Admiralty to send him back to sea if only to get him away from her.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/h/ho/horatio_nelson__1st_viscount_nelson.html (1747 words)

	The Brontes : Horatio Nelson : Napoleonic Wars : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Brontë enthusiasts have in their customary rush for romantic intrigue overlooked the role his love of classic literature may have played in the transition of Brunty to Brontë.
		The village of Bronte in Sicily, where Nelson was bestowed an estate as part of his dukedom, sits in the shadow of the western slope of Mt Etna and was named Bronte in deference to this Greek god, interpreted locally to mean "thunder" or "the god of thunder" whose volcanic rumblings can still be heard.
		The dieresis "ë" in Brontë is historically and grammatically incorrect, it is not derived from the ancient Greek, nor do Italian maps list the town of Bronte in Sicily as Brontë.
	www.napoleonguide.com /bronte2.htm (606 words)

	HORATIO NELSON, VISCOUNT NELSON - LoveToKnow Article on HORATIO NELSON, VISCOUNT NELSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		(1758-1805), duke of Bronte in Sicily, British naval hero, was born at the parsonage house of Burnham Thorpe, in Norfolk, on the 29th of September 1758.
		Racked by anxiety and deprived of his best means of obtaining information by the disappearance of his frigates, he remained cruising till he was joined, on the 7th of June, by Troubridge with ten sail of the line.
		The duchy of Bront was in 1910 held by Baroness Bridports grandson, Arthur Wellington Nelson Hood, 2nd Viscount Bridport (b.
	96.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NELSON_HORATIO_NELSON_VISCOUNT.htm (7965 words)

	The Classics Pages - Sicily: Bronte
		But the father of the novelists, a loyal Ulsterman called Brunty, allegedly changed the spelling of his name to Brontë in honour of the great sailor (though where he got the diaeresis from is more problematical).
		A later Duca di Bronte, Viscount Bridport, descended from Lord Nelson through his sister, features in Daphne Phelps' memoirs: after seemingly being desperate to buy Casa Cuseni after the death of Daphne's uncle, the Duca suddenly withdrew his offer without explanation.
		Many of the smaller towns of Sicily claim to be the home of this or that item - Bronte is the world capital of the Pistachio Nut (pistaccio in Italian).
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~loxias/sicily/bronte.htm (355 words)

	Vilage of Bronte on Lake Ontario (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For years it was a commercial shipping center for grain and timber but with the coming of the railway, the villagers turned to commercial fishing and, in the late 18th century, Bronte became a fishing port.
		This home has been preserved and is home to the Bronte Historical Society and is open to the public.
		From its small beginnings and the changes that have passed through the village, it is a pleasant mix of old and new and is now a very fashionable place to live.
	www.bronte-marina.com /brontevillage.htm (216 words)

	What's In A Name -the Duality of Brontë (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		One of the more intriguing involves the famous Brontë Sisters, arguably England's most famous literary family, and the transition of their surname from Brunty to Brontë prior to their birth at the instigation of their father allegedly inspired by one of the honours bestowed on Nelson.
		Brontë enthusiasts have in their rush for romantic intrigue overlooked the role his love of classic literature may have played in the transition of Brunty to Brontë.
		However in the final analysis the desire of Patrick Brunty to change his name to Brontë had a lot more to do with discontentment, a desire to recreate himself, to rise above the class into which he was born by severing links to his Irish peasant origin.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /Bronte.htm (861 words)

	Sicily Hotel Rooms Reservation - Hotels Hotel Sicily - Hotels Hotel in Sicily - Farm Holiday Sicily - Hotel Sicily - ...
		The B&B is situated on the south west coast of Sicily, in the midst of one of the most beautiful and interesting archaeological areas worldwide, the very...
		The property dates from the 18th century during the "Kingdom of the Two Sicilies" is owned by the same family since 1830, the new country home which originally...
		Apartments are composed with one living room with a single sofabed, one bedroom with a matrimonial bed and one bedroom with two twin bed.
	www.hotelsearch.it /en/hotel/sicily9.htm (510 words)

	Farm Holidays Sicily - Hotel Hotels Sicily - Residence Hotel Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The old olive trees of Sicily overlooking a landscape filled with the unique scent of jasmine and fruit trees are the background to "Baglio Costa di Mandorla", just 5 km from Trapani and a few meters...
		Spontaneously risen in the legendary district of Drauth, an arabian pirate who in past times came to this strip of paradis to abduct maidens of rare beauty in homage to the capricious...
		On the coast of the Sicily, to Sciacca, city between the most ancient dell'Island, in flood Magna Greece, lodgings in bed and-break fast to 30 meters from the beach of "Lido", one of beautifulst of...
	www.accommodations.it /hotel/sicily9.htm (675 words)

	Kristie's Sicily Web Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		With bare hands we women and men of Sicily turn out onto the streets to talk to people, to help the women and their children in the suburbs, those who are homeless, and the migrants.
		Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica - Sicily
		Tags:Google Earth, Italy, ;Sicily, Syracuse Syracuse was founded in 734 or 733 BC by Greek settlers from Corinth.
	candy.onlinetradingcoach.biz /Carmelite/Sicily (550 words)

	The Brontes : Horatio Nelson : Napoleonic Wars : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		John Godl looks at the story that the father of the Bronte sisters, Patrick Brunty, changed his surname to celebrate Nelson becoming the Duke of Bronte in 1799.
		He was certainly one of the most inspirational men in world history and his fame became a repository of all manner of legend and consequence.
		One of the more intriguing involves the famous Brontë Sisters, arguably England's most famous literary family, and the transition of their surname from Brunty to Brontë.
	www.napoleonguide.com /bronte.htm (377 words)

	Bronte Family
		The Brontë Family is best known for Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, famous English writers of the 1840s and 1850s.
		They were three of the six children of the Rev. Patrick Brontë and his wife Maria Branwell.
		The Rev. Brontë, a native of County Down in Ulster, was the eldest son of Hugh Prunty, also known as Hugh Brunty, and changed the orthography of his last name several times during his lifetime, from Brunty to Branty to Bronte to Bronté to Brontë.
	www.haworthonline.co.uk /the_bronte_family/the_bronte_family.htm (288 words)

	Giuseppe Castiglione (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Giuseppe Castiglione (born on 5 October 1963 in Bronte, Sicily) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Islands with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
		1996-1999: Member of Regional Executive with responsibility for industry in the 50th, 51st and 52nd governments of the Region of Sicily
		2001-2004: Member of Regional Executive with responsibility for agriculture and Vice-Chairman of the Regional Council of Sicily
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giuseppe_Castiglione_(politician) (279 words)

	GROM - italian ice cream - Bronte pistachio
		his variety of pistachio grows on the rugged soils of Bronte and nowhere else in Europe.
		Perched on the steep roads between Etna and the Park of the Nebrodi, Bronte's livelihood depends on pistachios: there, people grow them, sell them and make them into confectionery, creams and sauces.
		There is no secret: you just have to go and look for the best pistachios in the world, without any doubt the "Smeraldo" (emerald) variety that is harvested every two years in Bronte in Sicily, paying their right price (like exclusive jewellery…) and use a lot.
	www.grom.it /eng/pages/pistacchio.htm (272 words)

	Delicious Italy - pistacchio nuts from Bronte in Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bronte for the nuts, but also 'paste con sarde' at Palermo (sardines, raisins, pine nuts, over a saffron pasta), couscous (Marsala, Trapani) and sorbet ice creams (everywhere).
		Production of pistacchio in Bronte has tripled since the Second World War.
		The web site is courtesy of the Associazione Bronte Insieme, but the fabulous images need no translation.
	www.deliciousitaly.com /prodotto.php?id=9®ione_id=14 (263 words)

	Recommended Places to Eat in Italy
		From the traditional cassatina made from Bronte pistachio (certified as a superior variety unique to this region) to the gelato flavoured with oregano, you'll never forget this culinary treasure.
		Due to the extremely warm summer climate (not to mention Etna's smoldering crater), the Sicilians are sensible enough to avoid drinking hot coffees in the mornings, preferring a white almond granita topped with either coffee or chocolate granita, together with a fresh brioche.
		From Sicily comes the nero d'avola, which is one of the main varieties used in the "Corvo" wine which we highly recommend.
	home.iprimus.com.au /fsc/eating.htm (1323 words)

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		After this the admiral for a time signed his papers as Bronte Nelson,[1] changed subsequently to Bronte Nelson of the Nile, and finally settled down to Nelson and Bronte, which was his form of signature for the last four years of his life.
		There can be no question, however, that all his faculties were constantly on the alert; and that his administration of the station until Keith's return was characterized by the same zeal, sagacity, and politic tact that he had shown in earlier days.
		The points of principal importance were the consolidation of the royal power in the continental territory of the Two Sicilies, the reduction of Malta, and the retention of the French army in Egypt in entire isolation from France.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16915/16915.txt (13722 words)

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