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	Sicani - LoveToKnow 1911
		SICANI, in ancient geography, generally regarded (together with the Elymi) as the oldest inhabitants of Sicily.
		Sicania (the country of the Sicani) and the Siculi or Siceli are mentioned in Homer (Odyssey, xx.
		At first the Sicani occupied nearly the whole of the island, but were gradually driven by the Siceli into the interior and the N. and N.W. They lived chiefly in small towns and supported themselves by agriculture.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sicani (154 words)

	Sicilian Peoples: The Sicanians - Best of Sicily Magazine - Sikania, Sikelia, Thapsos, Castelluccio, Prehistoric Sicily.
		Though largely hypothetical, a logical theory has been advanced that the Sicanians were not initially part of any Indo-European population, though recent discoveries imply at least isolated contact with some Mycenean and Minoan cultures --probably on the basis of trade.
		Living independently of other societies, the earliest Sicani naturally would have developed as a unique population lacking clearly-defined cultural links to the Indo-European cultures of Italy, Greece and the eastern Mediterranean.
		Sicani, Elymians, Sicels), if possible, must be postponed to the analysis of more samples and hopefully more informative uniparental DNA markers such as the recently available DHPLC-SNP polymorphisms of the Y chromosome.
	www.bestofsicily.com /mag/art141.htm (2219 words)

	Sicani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thucydides (6.2) writes that, after the Cyclopes and Laestrygones, the Sicani were the next to settle in Italy.
		The Sicani are purported to have settled in Latium along the river Tiber, but were again driven from there by aboriginal groups, and headed to the south of Italy.
		With the arrival of the Sicels, the Sicani would chiefly inhabit northwestern Sicily, which would become known as Sicania, while the rest of the island became known as Sicily.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sicani (259 words)

	SICANI - Online Information article about SICANI
		country of the Sicani) and the See also:
		opinion among the ancients as to the origin of the Sicani.
		At first the Sicani occupied nearly the whole of the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SHA_SIV/SICANI.html (385 words)

	Untitled Document
		The Sicilians of today are said to be a "mixed race" descended from early Sicilians (Sicani, Siculi, Elymi), and the peoples who subsequently conquered or colonized Sicily: Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantine Greeks, Saracen Arabs, Normans, and to some extent Longobards, Goths, Angevin French, Aragonese and Spanish.
		There is evidence to suggest that the Sicani were of western European origin, possibly Iberian, while the Siculi may have arrived from mainland Italy, having some of the same roots as certain mainland Italic groups such as the Lucanians.
		Alternatively, both the Sicani and the Siculi may have been indigenous peoples whose art and culture were influenced by an influx of settlers from these other regions.
	www.geocities.com /~baadguy/sicily/ancienttoearly.html (1013 words)

	Early Settlement of Sicily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Sicani were soon followed by Siculi, who came across the Strait of Messina from the Italian mainland.
		The arrival of the Siculis, and their settlement along the island's eastern and southeastern coast, pushed the Sicani settlements further inland and toward the north and northwest of the island.
		In the same general period a third tribal group, the Elymni, began settlement at the western end of Sicily, with towns at Erice and Segesta.
	www.boglewood.com /sicily/siculi.html (137 words)

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		During this period the Sicani settled there, and Sicily was named Sicania from them.
		The Sicani were Mediterranean farmers and breeders coming from the far Iberian peninsula and settling down in the area of Valdesi, under Mount Pellegrino and also at Carini, in the province of Palermo, where the remains of an ancient urban centre have been found.
		The Sicani, the Siculi and the Elimi were addicted to work and to the cult for divinity, and they have lived for a long time in peace, but soon trade reasons forced them to come up against other Mediterranean people coming to the Palermitan area, such as, first of all, the Phoenicians.
	spazioinwind.libero.it /webmattew/Sicily/istory.htm (4657 words)

	QB10 - I Sicani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I pochi siti riproduttivi del Capovaccaio sui Sicani coincidono con la totalità di quelli siciliani, 5-7 coppie, con un discreto tasso riproduttivo, anche se non sempre costante.
		L’area dei Sicani ospita diverse colonie, allocate su pareti rocciose alte e strapiombanti o basse e friabili, talvolta in cave abbandonate, da poche coppie ad almeno 30-40 nei casi più felici.
		Ai margini dei Sicani pochi ambienti umidi e riparali, originati da corsi d’acqua anche importanti (come il Platani, il Magazzolo e il Verdura-Sosio) sottoposti a sbarramenti o a pesanti prelievi idrici per usi civili e agricoli.
	xoomer.virgilio.it /qbnumero10/QB010/sicani.htm (1627 words)

	Origine di Siciliano
		Da un lato, Tucidide sostiene che i Sicani siano stati i primi abitanti della Sicilia, ma dall’altro sostiene che essi siano venuti dall’ Iberia e che derivassero il loro nome dal fiume chiamato Sicano.
		The Sikels, led by Ducetius is defeated in the neighborhood of Palagonia (Naftia) and exiled to Corinth in 446.
		Instaurarono (i Siculi e i Sicani) un unico sistema di vita, i loro linguaggi si amalgamarono, e per la prevalenza dei Siculi, sorse quella lingua che si poté chiamare "sicula", o, per rifarci alla espressione greca, "siciliota".
	www.dieli.net /SicilyPage/SicilianLanguage/OrigineSaggio.html (2249 words)

	Sicani
		Dei due popoli autoctoni siciliani, i Sicani e gli Elimi, sappiamo soprattutto che furono influenzati dalle culture del Mediterraneo orientale.
		Soppiantando lentamente i sicani, questo popolo, che risale al II millennio a.C. si è insediato nella parte orientale dell'isola.
		Passati dunque in Sicilia in gran numero, vinsero in battaglia i Sicani, che confinarono nelle regioni meridionali e occidentali e fecero sì che l’isola, da Sicania, si chiamasse Sicilia.
	spazioinwind.libero.it /popoli_antichi/Italici/Sicani.html (543 words)

	Sicily, Italy (Photo Archive)
		The Sicani had settled in the central and S. parts of the island, while the Siculi lived on the E. side.
		While the Greeks were often in conflict with the Sicani and the Siculi, the Phoenicians generally had peaceful relations with the indigenous, particularly with the Elymians.
		Greek and Phoenician interests, the former expressed mostly by the rulers of Syracuse, the latter by Cartage, soon collided violently, and for centuries Sicily was regularly ravaged by war, between the the cities of Greek origin and Cartage or between the Greek cities themselves.
	sights.seindal.dk /sight/613_Sicily.html (3754 words)

	Taormina's history amid tales and legends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Anthropologists almost all agree that the part of Sicily to be inhabited first was the west since utensils of the Palaeolithic era have been found in the areas surrounding both Palermo and Trapani.
		The first people to settle in Sicily were the Sicani from a district to the north of Valencia in Spain.
		The Sicani led a peaceful existence, which is more than what can be said of the Siculi who came to Sicily from the ltalian peninsular.
	www.taormina-ol.it /taormina/taormina_02.htm (762 words)

	ANTICHI POPOLI DELLA SICILIA - MORGENTI - FENICI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I Sicani, che abitavano la Sicilia centrale e sudoccidentale, non erano indoeuropei e subirono l'invasione di un popolo di questo ceppo linguistico.
		Provenienti con probabilita' dalla Spagna, i sicani fecero di Iccara, Inico e Indara i loro centri principali.
		Espugnata che fu Ilio, alcuni dei Troiani sfuggiti agli Achei approdarono con le loro imbarcazioni in Sicilia, ove si stabilirono ai confini dei Sicani; e tutti insieme ebbero il nome di Elimi: Erice e Segesta furono le loro città.
	www.dacostantino.com /antichi_popoli_sicilia.htm (4018 words)

	Sicilia - Province of the Roman Empire
		The first known inhabitants of the important Mediterranean island were the Elymi, Sicani, and Siculi.
		The original tribes of Sicilia, the Elymi, Sicani, Siculi and Brutti were nearly completely absorbed by Phoenician, Greek and then Roman culture.
		Greek mythology and folklore would assert the greatest influence on Sicily, and Sicily's museums are filled with religious artifacts and statues reflecting the important culture whose language, philosophy and law would form the very foundations of Western civilization.
	www.unrv.com /provinces/sicilia.php (835 words)

	A Brief History of Italy \| Bethesda Travel Center
		When thinking in terms of Italy it is important to push back our concept of “the olden days” about 4,000 years to 2,000 B.C. From this time, the tribes of Italy began engaging in the trade that was to earmark the country’s history.
		Recognizable groups were the Celts, Sicani, Ligurians, Umbrians, Sabines, and Campanians.
		The Phoenician civilization was pivotal, and the Etruscans were contemporaries of the Greeks, whose presence in the south and Sicily peaked in the VIII century B.C. The region was known as Magna Grecia, and still today contains many remains of the Greek civilization.
	www.travelfavorites.com /IT/IThist.asp (561 words)

	Classical Gazetteer, page 317 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sicani, a Celto-Ligurian people, who settled in w.
		Named Sicilia from the Siculi, Sicania from the Sicani, and Trinacria from the three great promontories marking its triangular outline.
		Italy, coming next in order of colonization to the Sicani.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /gazetteer/0319.html (452 words)

	Taormina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Anthropologists almost all agree that the part of Sicily to be inhabited first was the west since utensils of the Palaeolithic era have been found in the areas surrounding both Palermo and Trapani.
		The first people to settle in Sicily were the Sicani from a district to the north of Valencia in Spain.
		The Sicani led a peaceful existence, which is more than what can be said of the Siculi who came to Sicily from the ltalian peninsular.
	www.gate2taormina.com /fr_taoHist_en.htm (6082 words)

	Enna and Morgantina - Best of Sicily
		The name "Enna" supposedly derives from the Sicani term "Henna." Enna's early history sheds a rare light on the obscure origins of the three indigenous Sicilian peoples: The Elami, the Sicani and the Siculi.
		Since Enna was an established native center, the early Greeks were able to record the precious little history that exists regarding these peoples, in an epoch before extensive contact and conquest by the Greeks and other outsiders influenced their culture.
		This accord established Eastern Sicily as a "permanent" Siculi territory, relegating the Sicani to Western Sicily, with Enna acting as the boundary.
	www.bestofsicily.com /enna.html (1883 words)

	La Bedda Sicilia
		The name Sicani is derived from the Greek word 'sika' (Italian 'selce'), meaning chalcedony, a quartz-based type of rock that includes agate and tiger's eye, and which was plentiful in the areas inhabited by the Sicani.
		Some sources say the Sicani were the dominant culture for about 4,500 years until being joined by the Siculi (SEE-kew-lee), or the Sikels, Sicels or Siculiani, in about 1,400 BC (the time of Moses).
		Serradifalco and its provincial capital Caltanissetta are essentially at the geographic center of the island, the lands of the ancient Sicani.
	www.conigliofamily.com /LaBeddaSicilia.htm (10715 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On the ancient origin of Bronte from a historical point of view, there is little documented information and, in any case only few ruins exist to testify the ancient birth.
		These, the Siculi, with the force of arms, occupied the oriental part of Sicily and relegated the Sicani in the western part of mount Etna.
		Our progenitors, Sicani and Siculi, probably began this way their relation to life, trying to copy what nature had offered them with natural caves.
	web.tiscali.it /Bronteinsieme/BrIns_en/2st_en/origini_en.html (1126 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This rule is not broken even by Nino Belvedere with his novel "L'Isola dei Sicani" ("The Island of the Sicani"), published.
		"The Island of the Sicani" is therefore an internal pathway of a soul returing to its own origins.
		After overcoming the dangers of a whole lot of nostalgia and oleography in literature, it takes us along the path of experimenting immediate effects and great modernity, (above all in moments, as in mountain climbing or descending into the basements of monasteries...) in the moments of greater and warmest participation.
	www.arpnet.it /torre/be2.htm (475 words)

	Sicani Gebirge auf Sizilien
		Das Sicani Gebirge befindet sich zwischen Palermo und Agrigent und erreicht eine maximale Höhe von 1578 Metern mit dem Monte Cammarata nahe dem gleichnamigen Dorf Cammarata.
		Der Gebirgszug der Monti Sicani erstreckt sich vom bekannten Bergdorf Corleone bis nach Casteltermini welches zur Provinz von Agrigent gehört.
		Zu den schönsten Schmetterlingen gehört der sogenannte Silvano azzurro und Vanessa Multicolore.
	www.italien-inseln.de /berge/sicani.html (161 words)

	Sicani - Wikipedia
		Da quanto riportato dagli storici greci e latini, possiamo dedurre che i Sicani, comparvero in Sicilia nel Neolitico (civiltà di Stentinello), furono una popolazione autoctona, o giunta dall'Iberia.
		Dopo i Sicani giunsero dalla Libia, stanziandosi nell'estrema parte occidentale dell'isola (Erice, Segesta), una mescolanza di esuli troiani e focesi, sfuggiti agli Achei, i quali si fusero con gli insediamenti sicani presenti in quella parte del territorio.
		Tutti gli storici concordano sul fatto che i Sicani fossero un gruppo etnico precedente ai Siculi e molto probablmente anche degli Elimi.
	it.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sicani (1488 words)

	Gay Today at Badpuppy
		The suspects, Salvatore Sicani, 21, and Charles Jaynes, 22, both have records of violence.
		Sicani is reported to have already confessed, blaming Jaynes for both the killing and, afterwards, an act of necrophila.
		Before the boy's body had been found Sicani had confessed what he and Jaynes had done with it, a story now verified with a videotape from Home Depot and with the body's recovery.
	www.gaytoday.com /garchive/events/101397ev.htm (765 words)

	Gela - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The town is a resort and fishing port, as well as an industrial centre,...
		Sicily was inhabited at the beginning of historical times by a people called the Siculi or Sicani.
		It is believed that they crossed over to the...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Gela.html (101 words)

	Sicily - Personages
		Bernabò Brea, the museum founder, thought that the most ancient Sicilian in habitants -the "Siculi"- came from Liguria in northern Italy, while the "Sicani" came from Spain.
		Recent studies revealed that the "Sicani" had fair eyes and fair hair.
		After 1908's earthquake, he began designing the mosaics for the Cathedral but was unable to finish due to a serious illness that eventually caused his death.
	www.messinacity.com /Sicilia/Inglese/sicilia_personag.htm (521 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Antica popolazione probabilmente non indoeuropea, secondo Tucidide di origine iberica; si stanziò nella Sicilia centroccidentale, ma già in Omero il termine Sikaníe (terra dei sicani) indicava tutta l'isola.
		La successiva immigrazione dei siculi avvenuta prima del 1000 a.C. (secondo Tucidide trecento anni prima della colonizzazione greca) spinse i sicani verso la parte sudoccidentale dell'isola.
		Solamente con la colonizzazione cartaginese (V secolo a.C.) i sicani furono parzialmente sottomessi e nel 241 a.C., dopo la fine della prima guerra punica, caddero sotto il dominio romano.
	web.tiscali.it /Selinunte/sicani.htm (83 words)

	bosco dei Sicani
		Bosco dei Sicani e Riserva Naturale Orientata “Monti di Palazzo Adriano e Valle del Sosio”
		Il Bosco dei Sicani è molto grande; si estende per tutta la provincia di Agrigento e copre parte della provincia di Palermo.
		Fu il luogo in cui si insediarono alcuni tra i primi abitanti della Sicilia : i Sicani.
	www.comune.burgio.ag.it /bosco.htm (559 words)

	Amazon.com: Sicani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		the massif of the Monti Sicani, with the high summits of...
		These were the Sicani, named after their curved-bladed daggers."...
		In Sicily the Elymni, Sicani and Siculi held sway.
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Sicani&tag=lexico&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (1098 words)

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