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TERMINI IMERESE (anc. Thermae Himeraeae)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 642 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TAV-THE
TERMINI IMERESE (anc. Thermae Himeraeae) , a seaport town of Sicily, in the province of Palermo, 23 M. E.S.E. of it by rail. Pop. (
loot
 ) 20,633. It is finely situated on a promontory above its harbour, and it is possible that it was occupied by an early Phoenician
settlement
 ; as a town, however, it was not founded until 407 B.C. by the Carthaginians, after their destruction of Himera, in the vicinity of hot springs mentioned by
Pindar
  (Od. xii. 1o) which are still resorted to and are well fitted up (temp. 110 F.). It remained a Carthaginian colony, though thoroughly Greeks in character, until it was taken by Rome in the First Punic war. In the time of Cicero it was flourishing; though not of
great
  importance.
Augustus
  sent a Roman colony to it, and a Roman road ran from it to Catana. Its medieval castle was destroyed in 186o. The modern town presents no features of
interest
 ; there is a collection of antiquities and pictures, with a considerable number of Roman
inscriptions
 . Scanty remains of buildings of Roman times (an amphitheatre and a so-called basilica) exist in the upper part of the town; and outside it on the S. are considerable remains of two aqueducts of the same period crossing a deep ravine. The surrounding
district
  is fertile.
Four m. E. of Termini, about 1 m. W. of the railway station of Cerda, on an E. spur of the Monte S. Calogera, called Monte Castellaccio, is a Cyclopean
wall
 , about 66 ft. long, to ft. thick, and 30 ft. high in the middle, blocking the only access to the summit of the spur, on the N.E. Fortifications in this style are very rare in Sicily.
See B. Romano, Antichitd Termitane (Palermo, 1838) ; Mauceri, Acropoli Pelasgica nei dintorni di Termini Imerese (Palermo, 1896). T. As.)


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