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ENGYON

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 646 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EMS-EUD
ENGYON , an ancient town of the interior of Sicily, a Cretan colony, according to legend, and famous for an ancient temple of the Matres which aroused the greed of
Verres
 . Its site is uncertain; some topographers have identified it with Gangi, a town 20 M. S.S.E. of
Cefalu
 , but only on the ground of the similarity of the two names.
See C. Hiilsen in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopddie, v. 2568. ENID, a city and the county-seat of Garfield county, Oklahoma, U.S.A., about 55 M. N.W. of
Guthrie
 . Pop. (1900) 3444; (1907) 10,087 (355 of negro descent); (191o) 13,799. Enid is served by the St Louis & San Francisco, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and the Chicago,
Rock
 
Island
  & Pacific railways, and by several branch lines, and is an important railway centre. It is the seat of the Oklahoma Christian University (1907; co-educational). Enid is situated in a flourishing agricultural and stock-raising region, of which it is the commercial centre, and has various manufactures, including
lumber
 , brick, tile and flour. Natural gas was discovered near the city in 1907. Enid was founded in 1893 and was chartered as a city in the same year.


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