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Canicatti

Sicily, Italy
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Canicatti is a town and comune municipality inside the Province of Agrigento inside the Italian area Sicily, placed approximately 90 kilometers southeast of Palermo and approximately 34 kilometers east of Agrigento. In 2016, it had a population of 35,698. The archaeological remains within the city and in the community testify the presence of an agreement earlier than the Roman age. The name of Canicatti is of Arabic starting region from Khandaq al áš­in that means clay ditch.

During the conquest of Sicily through using the Normans, the community Muslim lord was besieged and defeated via Baron Salvatore Palmer 1087 a follower of Roger I of Sicily the latter as praise supplied him a sword and the lordship over the fief. Under the Palmieri rule the Arab fortress become enlarged turning into a actual fortress with a tower.

The Normans have been observed by using manner of the Hohenstaufen and the French Angevines in flip ousted by way of the Aragonese. In 1448 the fief of Canicatti changed into ceded through Antonio Palmieri, who have become heirless to his nephew Andrea De Crescenzio, who received by means of way of King John II of Aragon the Licentia populandi the permission to increase the fief boundaries, boom its populace and administers justice.

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