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AGIRA (formerly SAN FILIPPO D'ARGIRO)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 376 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
AGIRA (formerly SAN FILIPPO D'ARGIRO) , a
town
  of the province of
Catania
 ,
Sicily
 , with a railway station 44 M. to the
south
  of the
town
 , 35 M. W. of
Catania
 . Pop. (Igo') 17,738. It occupies the site of Agyrion, an
ancient
  Sicel cityvhich was ruled by tyrants, one of whom, Agyris, was the most powerful ruler in the centre of
Sicily
 . He was a contemporary of
Dionysius
  I., and with him successfully resisted the Carthaginians when they invaded the territory of Agyrium in 392 B.C.
Agira
  was not colonized by the Greeks until
Timoleon
  drove out the last
tyrant
  in 339 B.C. and erected various splendid buildings of which no traces remain. Agyrion was the birthplace of the historian Diodorus Siculus.


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