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agrigento

n. Province of Sicily, Italy; the town and capital of Agrigento.

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Agrigento

Agrigento ( Sicilian: Girgenti) is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, and capital of the province of Agrigento. It is renowned as the site of the ancient Greek city of Akragas (also known as Acragas (Ἀκράγας) in Greek, Agrigentum in Latin and Kirkent or Jirjent in Arabic), one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia during the golden age of Ancient Greece with population estimates in the range 200,000 - 800,000 before 406 BC.

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Marching out of Favara down the winding road to the west, they approached Agrigento where there were sizable numbers of Italian troops.

One regiment of the 3rd Division was to capture Agrigento while the Rangers out front were swinging around it counterclockwise for a return to the coast.

The head of the bug as it faced south toward the coast was the town of Agrigento perched high on a mountain.

Artillery on Montaperto could fire eastward on the road junction and down the road to Favara, could cover Agrigento, and also the peak to its south.

Then suddenly out of Agrigento three tracked vehicles bearing guns headed toward them.

The route we followed was one normally taken by tourists driving across the island to Agrigento, certainly those in search of spectacular scenery.

Luigi Agrigento, current head of the Maffeo, saw the handwriting on the wall when nearby planets began also to be colonized.

When blame is being scattered around, Agrigento will have some claim to innocence.

For all he knew, Luigi Agrigento might have even leaked them a photograph, his fingerprints and whatever else they might have wanted the better to hunt down Billy Antrim.

She had probably written him, she would have written, but he suspected Luigi Agrigento had confiscated any such mail.

A different life than the one Luigi Agrigento had decreed for him when he’d been a boy of eleven.

The moment Luigi Agrigento dies by the hand of a citizen of another world, Article Two goes into effect.

Granted, Pantelleria was but a day's sail from Tunis, just as it was from Agrigento, and not an uncommon place for some trade between Tunisian and Sicilian merchants to take place, despite the lack of anything resembling decent-sized warehouses, or docking capable of taking a ship.

Moors, maybe, from Africa, coming through Agrigento, who knows that far back in history.

The commander of the tower garrison had sent men on horseback to Agrigento and Sciacca to inform the commanders there and ask them to send knights.