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Lentini (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 37 17 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 37.2833 decimal degrees |
Long: 015 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 15.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Town on the site of a Greek colonial city founded by Naxians in 729 BCE. Became subject to Syracuse, then Rome. Destroyed by the Saracens in 848 CE. |
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Lentini (preferred,C,V)
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Leontini (H,V)
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Leontium (H,V,Latin,U)
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Leontinoi (H,V)
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Λεοντῖνοι (H,V,Greek,U)
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Sicilia (region (administrative division)) (P,C) part of unified Italy from 1861 |
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Lentini (inhabited place) (P) |
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