By the 12th century, Swabian kings granted immigrants from northern Italy ( particularly Piedmont, Lombardy and Liguria ), Latium in central Italy, and the south of France settlement into Sicily, re-establishing the Latin element back to Sicily, a legacy which can be seen in the many Gallo-Italic dialects found in the interior and western parts of Sicily, brought by these settlers.

* Gallo-Italic of Sicily, a group of Gallo-Italic dialects spoken in central-eastern Sicily

Varieties of Gallo-Italic languages are also found in Sicily, corresponding with the central-eastern parts of the island that received large numbers of immigrants from Northern Italy, called Lombards, during the decades following the Norman conquest of Sicily ( around 1080 to 1120 ).

* Gallo-Italic of Sicily

Aidone ( Gallo-Italic of Sicily: Aidungh, Dadungh ; ) is a town and comune in the province of Enna, in region of Sicily in southern Italy.

** Gallo-Italic of Sicily

Other varieties of Gallo-Italic languages, locally spoken from 13th and 14th century, are also found in Basilicata, more precisely in the province of Potenza ( Tito, Picerno, Pignola and Vaglio Basilicata ), Trecchina, Rivello, Nemoli and San Costantino.

Traditionally spoken in Northern Italy, Southern Switzerland, San Marino and Monaco, most Gallo-Italic languages have given way in everyday use to Standardized Italian.

In the case of San Fratello, some linguists have suggested that the Gallo-Italic dialect present today has Provençal as its basis, having been a fort manned by Provençal mercenaries in the early decades of the Norman conquest ( bearing in mind that it took the Normans 30 years to conquer the whole of the island ).

The Venetian language is usually considered to belong to a different dialect community, but some scholars include it too among Gallo-Italic dialects.

Lombard is a member of the Cisalpine or Gallo-Italic group within the Romance languages.

* Most Gallo-Italic languages delete all unstressed final vowels except / a /, e. g. Lombard òm " man ", füm " smoke ", nef " snow ", fil " wire ", röda " wheel " ( Italian uomo, fumo, neve, filo, ruota ).

* as an independent Northern Italian language, belonging neither to the Venetian language nor to the Gallo-Italic group ( opinion shared by linguists Tullio De Mauro and Maurizio Dardano );

The Gallo-Romance branch of Romance languages include French and the other langue d ' oïl dialects, Occitan ( langue d ' oc ), Catalan, Franco-Provençal, Gallo-Italic, and other languages ( sociolects )

In 1865, Italy formed part of the Latin Monetary Union in which the lira was set as equal to, among others, the French, Belgian and Swiss francs: in fact, in various Gallo-Italic dialects in north-western Italy, the lira was outright called " franc ".

Given the time that has lapsed and the cross-fertilisation that has occurred between these varieties and the Sicilian language itself, these dialects are best described as Gallo-Italic.

The Emiliano-Romagnolo ( also known as Emilian-Romagnolo ) language group is a genetic subgroup of the Gallo-Italic languages.

* Gallo-Italic or Gallo-Italian language, a branch spoken in Northern Italy of the Romance languages

A further use of the term Padania was limited to some linguistic research, in relation to Gallo-Italic languages, sometimes even extended to all regional languages which divide Northern from Central Italy along the La Spezia-Rimini Line.

: For the Italian town, see: Nicosia, Sicily.

During July and August 1943 Capa was in Sicily with American troops, near Sperlinga, Nicosia and Troina.

He married Constanza of Sicily ( 1303 / 1307 – in Cyprus after 19 June 1344 ), daughter of Frederick III of Sicily and Eleanor of Anjou, at Santa Sophia, Nicosia, on 16 October 1317 but they didn't have any children.

* Villa Romana del Casale in Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy

In size, it is approximately equivalent to Nero's Golden House in Rome or to the Roman villa at Piazza Armerina in Sicily, and in plan it closely mirrors the basic organisation of the emperor Domitian's palace, the Domus Flavia, completed in AD 92 upon the Palatine Hill in Rome.

Populations of Piazza live in Calabria, Sicily, and Venice.

Other notable sites include Svartifoss in Skaftafell National Park in Iceland, Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, Fingal's Cave in Scotland, Titan's Piazza of the Mount Holyoke Range in Massachusetts, the Garni Gorge in Armenia, the Cyclopean Isles near Sicily, Sheepeater Cliff at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, Prismas Basálticos in Huasca de Ocampo, Mexico, the " Organ Pipes " formation on Mount Cargill in New Zealand, Gilbert Hill in Mumbai, Organ Pipes National Park in Australia and the " Column Cape " ( Russian: Mis Stolbchaty ) on Kunashir Island, the southernmost of the Kuril Islands.

* Piazza Armerina, Sicily

Terranova was born in Corleone, Sicily in 1890 to parents Bernardo Terranova and Angelina Piazza.

The Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele is an opera house and opera company located on the Piazza Verdi in Palermo, Sicily.

Landing in Sicily, Grammichele, Valguarnera, ASSORO, Agira, Adrano, Regalbuto, SICILY 1943, Landing at Reggio, Motta Montecorvino, Campobasso, Torella, THE MORO, San Leonardo, The Gully, Ortona, CASSINO II, Gustav Line, Liri Valley, HITLER LINE, GOTHIC LINE, Lamone Crossing, Misano Ridge, RIMINI LINE, SAN FORTUNATO, Bulgaria Village, Naviglio Canal, Fosso Vecchio, ITALY 1943-1945, Apeldoorn, NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1945

Sicily became the first Roman province ( Sicilia ) governed by a former praetor, instead of an ally.

Importantly, Syracuse was granted nominal independent ally status for the lifetime of Hiero II, and was not incorporated into the Roman province of Sicily until after it was sacked by Marcus Claudius Marcellus during the Second Punic War.

His father's parents emigrated from Polizzi Generosa, in the province of Palermo, Sicily, and his mother was also of Italian descent.

Syracuse ( ; ; ; Syrakoúsai ) is a historic city in Sicily, the capital of the province of Syracuse.

In 2007, there were 122, 972 people residing in Syracuse, located in the province of Syracuse, Sicily, of whom 48. 7 % were male and 51. 3 % were female.

At the end of that same summer when M. Marcellus had come to the City from Sicily province the Senate was given for him at the temple of Bellona by the praetor C. Calpurnius.

It was recovered by the Byzantine general Belisarius in 533, along with the other Vandal possessions, and remained a part of the Byzantine province of Sicily for the next 340 years.

Alcamo ( Sicilian: Àrcamu ) is the fourth largest city in the province of Trapani, in north-western Sicily, southern Italy.

Segesta () was the political center of the Elymian people, located in the northwestern part of Sicily, in what are now the province of Trapani and the comune of Calatafimi-Segesta.

Erice (, ) is a historic town and comune in the province of Trapani in Sicily, Italy.

After the Norman conquest of Sicily in the late 11th century, Palermo replaced Melfi ( just west of present day Apulia ) as the center of Norman power, and Apulia became a mere province, first of the Kingdom of Sicily, then of the Kingdom of Naples.

Milazzo ( Sicilian: Milazzu, Latin: Mylae ) is a town ( comune ) and is the third-largest city in the province of Messina, and is one of the most important cities of Sicily.

Termini Imerese is a town and comune in the province of Palermo on the northern coast of Sicily, southern Italy.

Frutta martorana ( also frutta di Martorana or in sicilian frutta Marturana ) are traditional marzipan sweets, in the form of fruits and vegetables, from the province of Palermo, Sicily.

Selinunte ( Greek: ; Latin: Selinus ) is an ancient Greek archaeological site on the south coast of Sicily, southern Italy, between the valleys of the rivers Belice and Modione in the province of Trapani.

* Syracuse, Sicily, the capital of Syracuse province

Agrigento ( Sicilian: Girgenti ), is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, and capital of the province of Agrigento.

Mozia ( Sicilian: Mozzia ) is a small island, formerly known as Motia and San Pantaleo in the Trapani province, in Sicily, Italy, lies in the Stagnone Lagoon, and is generally included as a part of the comune of Marsala.

Mazara del Vallo ( Sicilian: Mazzara ) is a town and comune in southwestern Sicily, Italy, which lies mainly on the left bank at the mouth of the Mazaro river, administratively part of the province of Trapani.

The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe who in 429 under king Genseric entered Africa and by 439 established a kingdom which included the Roman Africa province, besides the islands of Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Malta and the Balearics.

Monreale ( Sicilian: Murriali ) is a town and comune in the province of Palermo, in Sicily, Italy, on the slope of Monte Caputo, overlooking the very fertile valley called " La Conca d ' oro " ( the Golden Shell ), famed for its orange, olive and almond trees, the produce of which is exported in large quantities.

* Catania, the capital city of the province of Catania, in Sicily, Italy

According to statements from Joe's brother Tom to biographer Maury Allen, Rosalia's father wrote to her with the advice that Giuseppe could earn a better living in California than in their native Isola delle Femmine, an Italian town in North-Western Sicily, administratively part of the province of Palermo.

Messina (;, Sicilian: Missina ; ) is the capital of the Italian province of Messina and the third largest city on the island of Sicily, with a population of more 240, 000 inhabitants in the city proper and about 650, 000 in the province.