Sicily, an island in southern Italy, the largest and one of the most
densely populated islands in the Mediterranean Sea. Sicily was inhabited
10,000 years ago. Its strategic location at the centre of the
Mediterranean has made the island a crossroads of history, a pawn of
conquest and empire, and a melting pot for a dozen or more ethnic groups
whose warriors or merchants sought its shores. Sicily’s strong cultural
traditions could be seen in the development of Italian lyrical poetry as
well as in the works of some modern writers like Giovanni Verga and Luigi
Pirandello.
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