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| | Southern Italy |
 | | Contains: Agrigento, Amalfi, Apulia, Arborea, Aversa, Barbagia, Bari, Benevento, Cagliari, Capua, Catania, Crotone, Cumæ, Enna, Gaeta, Gallura, Gela, Gozo, Lentini, Malta, Melfi, Messina, Naples, Palermo, Reggio de Calabria, Salerno, the Samnites, Sardinia (general survey), Sassari, Segesta, Sicily, Sybaris, Syracuse, Taranto, and Torres. |
 | | A port in southern Sicily, notable as the birthplace of philosopher Empedocles. |
 | | During the first phase of independence, the city became a byword in the ancient world for wealth and luxurious decadence, a reputation which remains in the English language to this day, with the adjective "Sybaritic". |
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