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Encyclopedia Britannica



RAGUSA

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 817 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PYR-RAY
RAGUSA , a town of Sicily in the province of Syracuse, 7o m. S.W. of Syracuse by rail and 32 M. direct. It consists of an upper (Ragusa Superiore) and a lower town (Ragusa Inferiore), each of which forms a
separate
  commune. Pop. (1906) of the former, 35,529; of the latter, 866. It has some churches with fine
Gothic
  architecture, and is commercially of some importance, a stone impregnated with
bitumen
  being quarried and prepared for use for paving slabs by being ex-posed to the action of fire. On the hill occupied by the castle of Ragusa Inferiore stood the ancient Hybla Heraea, a Sicel town, under the walls of which Hippocrates of Gela fell in 491 B.C. A Greek
settlement
  seems to have arisen in the neighbourhood close to the present railway station, about the middle of the 6th
century
  B.c., and to have disappeared at the end of the 5th. Orsi points out that the remains (cuttings in the
rock
  and a
part
  of the castle
wall
 ), attributed by Freeman (History of Sicily, i. 163) to Sicel times, are in reality post-Roman.
See Orsi in Notizie degli scavi (1899), 402-418.


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