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    Porto Empedocle (Sicilian: 'a Marina) is a town and comune in Italy on the coast of the Strait of Sicily, administratively part of the province of Agrigento...
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    evident resemblance between Porto Empedocle and Vigàta prompted the city of Porto Empedocle to rename itself "Porto Empedocle Vigàta" in 2003, although...
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    Jo Prestia (category People from Porto Empedocle)
    Jo Prestia (born 5 June 1960 in Porto Empedocle) is an Italian born French kick boxer and actor. He has appeared in more than seventy films since 1996...
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    Andrea Camilleri (category People from Porto Empedocle)
    September 1925 – 17 July 2019) was an Italian writer. Originally from Porto Empedocle, Girgenti, Sicily, Camilleri began university studies in the Faculty...
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  • imaginary town of Vigàta, Sicily, which is based on Camilleri's native Porto Empedocle. The series star Salvo Montalbano is the police chief, or commissario...
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    mining entrepreneurs was to get sulfur to the coastal refineries of Porto Empedocle and Licata, seaports for the embarkation of the ore; the area around...
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  • This is a list of prominent Sicilian mobsters by city. Giuseppe Falsone (born 1970) Nicolo Rizzuto (1924–2010) Vito Rizzuto (1946–2013) Gerlando Sciascia...
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    fishing, agriculture, and tourism. A ferry service links the island with Porto Empedocle, near Agrigento, Sicily. There are also year-round flights from Lampedusa...
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    “Turkish Steps”) is a rocky cliff on the coast of Realmonte, near Porto Empedocle, southern Sicily, Italy. It has become a tourist attraction, partly...
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    ports of Trapani and Marsala the Aegadian Islands and the port of Porto Empedocle the Pelagie Islands. From Palermo there is a service to the island...
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    Castelvetrano-Porto Palo section of the Castelvetrano–Porto Empedocle railway [it] Agrigento Bassa-Porto Empedocle section of the Castelvetrano-Porto Empedocle railway...
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    refineries and milling plants in various coastal locations from Licata to Porto Empedocle and in the city of Catania. One of the problems underlying the various...
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  • Agrigento consists of 10 mandamenti: Agrigento, Santa Elisabetta, Porto Empedocle, Canicattì, Cianciana, Ribera, Sambuca di Sicilia, Casteltermini, Palma...
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  • Gerlandino Messina (category People from Porto Empedocle)
    mesˈsiːna]; born on July 22, 1972) is a member of the Mafia in Sicily from Porto Empedocle. He was on the most wanted list of the Italian ministry of the Interior...
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    Agrigento Province Agrigento Santa Elisabetta Porto Empedocle Canicattì Cianciana Ribera Sambuca di Sicilia Casteltermini Palma di Montechiaro Campobello...
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    Castelvetrano-Porto Palo section of the Castelvetrano–Porto Empedocle railway [it] Agrigento Bassa-Porto Empedocle section of the Castelvetrano-Porto Empedocle railway...
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    exported worldwide from the nearby harbour of Porto Empedocle (named after the philosopher Empedocles, who lived in ancient Akragas). In 2010, the unemployment...
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  • (C2An/C2Ar) magnetic reversal Lower boundary GSSP Punta Piccola Section, Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Italy 37°17′20″N 13°29′36″E / 37.2889°N 13.4933°E / 37...
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    Sicilian dialect lit. "Trouser", from the shape of a nearby ravine), near Porto Empedocle, a poor suburb of Girgenti (Agrigento, a town in southern Sicily)....
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    1 mi) of the line to Porto Empedocle as far as Selinunte; on December 16, 1911, construction began on the 14 km (8.7 mi) Porto Empedocle-Siculiana section...
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    18th century, when the temple was used as a quarry for the port of Porto Empedocle. Near the south-western corner of the temples is a small edifice (12...
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  • present with administrative Navy Commands in Catania, Palermo, and Porto Empedocle. Maritime Military Base Messina-Reggio Calabria, in Messina - Ammiraglio...
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    12 May 1943. The DV Trucked Group remained in Sicily in the area of Porto Empedocle until it had to retreat to mainland Italy after the successful allied...
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  • September 8, 1960, in Porto Empedocle) is a former Sicilian mafioso, considered to be head of a powerful Mafia clan based in Porto Empedocle, in the province...
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    Trapani↔Favignana↔Levanzo↔Marettimo Palermo↔Ustica Trapani↔Pantelleria Porto Empedocle↔Linosa Porto Empedocle↔Lampedusa Wikimedia Commons has media related to Siremar...
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  • Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan (10 mandamenti): Ribera Santa Elisabetta Agrigento Porto Empedocle Canicattì Cianciana Sambuca di Sicilia Casteltermini Palma di Montechiaro...
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    (C2An/C2Ar) magnetic reversal Upper boundary GSSP Punta Piccola Section, Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Italy 37°17′20″N 13°29′36″E / 37.2889°N 13.4933°E / 37...
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    Agrigento. Realmonte borders the following municipalities: Agrigento, Porto Empedocle, Siculiana. A tourist attraction in the town is the Scala dei Turchi...
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    Porto Torres Y 416 Porto Corsini Y 417 Porto Empedocle Y 421 Porto Pisano Y 422 Porto Conte Y 423 Portoferraio Y 425 Portovenere Y 426 Porto Salvo Y 428...
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    provide building materials for the modern towns of Agrigento and nearby Porto Empedocle. Today it survives only as a broad stone platform heaped with tumbled...
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