Sicily (ita)

Sicily

Sicily ranks 663rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Nassau, Bahamas, Saudi Arabia, and Tripoli, Libya. Memorable people born in Sicily include Empedocles, Luigi Pirandello, and Roger II of Sicily. Memorable people who died in Sicily include Pausanias, Pope Eusebius, and Phrynichus. Sicily has been the birth place of many politicians, and writers and the death place of many military personnels, and geographers. Sicily is located in Italy.

Sicily is the largest and most populous island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 20 regions of Italy. It is one of the five Italian autonomous regions and is officially referred to as Regione Siciliana. The island has 4.8 million inhabitants. Its capital city is Palermo. It is named after the Sicels, who inhabited the eastern part of the island during the Iron Age. Read more on Wikipedia