Porto Empedocle (Italy)
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Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
פורטו אמפדוקלה (איטליה)
Name (Latin)
Porto Empedocle (Italy)
Other forms of name
nnaa Porto Empedocle, Sicily
nne Porto Empedocle (Sicily)
Empedocle (Italy)
Coordinates
13.52722222 13.52722222 37.29444444 37.29444444 (gooearth )
Associated country
Italy
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Pirandello e la sua terra, 198-:t.p. verso (Porto Empedocle)
- LC data base, 3-8-88(hdg.: Porto Empedocle, Sicily)
- BGN(Porto Empedocle, ppl., 37p0s17ʹN, 13p0s32ʹE)
- U.S. Defense Mapping Agency. Mediterranean Sea, Italy, Sicilia--west coast, approaches to Empedocle and Licata, 1996.
Wikipedia description:
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. It was named after Empedocles, a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of the city of Akragas (present-day Agrigento), in his day a Greek colony in Sicily. The primary industries of Porto Empedocle are agriculture, fishing, ironworking, pharmaceuticals and rock salt refining.
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