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WikiProject Sicily is attempting to fill in the many gaps relevant to Sicily's political structures, history, geography and culture and the related biographies of Sicilians. We would be most pleased if you could join us! Ni dassi assai piaciri siddu ni putissi junciri!

[edit] Make sure you visit:

• de:Portal:Sizilien
• Portale:Sicilia

[edit] List of members

[edit] To Do List/Lista di Chiffari

NOTE: History of Sicily is the collaboration of the weeks starting Sunday 9 July 2006. Has now been listed on Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive - please vote.

1. Translate all article names that have been copied over from it.wiki and scn.wiki, here and in the List of Sicilian municipalities.
2. Scour the various categories and sub-categories in it.wiki and scn.wiki looking for likely candidates for translation into English (see scn:Category:Sicilia and it:Categoria:Regione Sicilia).
3. Scour personal (and public) libraries for potential material to create articles on all matters Sicilian (allowing for all copyright laws and proper referencing).
4. Creation of all necessary templates, including Sicilian municipalities and other project related templates.
5. Messages sent to authors who have previously edited Sicilian related articles.
6. Scour existing Sicilian related articles for red links, add to correct sub-category below, may even need to create further sub-categories.

[edit] The Sicilian Provinces (li pruvinci siciliani) and their municipalities (li soi cumuna)

[edit] Provinces/Pruvinci

• Pruvinci siciliani: Province of Agrigento; Province of Caltanissetta; Province of Catania; Province of_Enna; Province of Messina; Province of Palermo; Province of Ragusa; Province of Syracuse; Province of Trapani
• All of these provinces could probably be expanded somewhat.
• See also scn:Category:Cumuni dâ Sicilia (a list by each Sicilian province); and it:Categoria:Province della Sicilia.

[edit] Municipalities/Cumuna

There are over 600 Sicilian municipalities, most of which are currently stubs or have not even been started yet.

• Refer to separate listing: List of Sicilian municipalities (based on tavuledda dî noma siciliani). Also describes the correct templates to use.
• See also scn:Category:Cumuni dâ Sicilia and it:Categoria:Comuni della Sicilia
• This list needs to be anglicised where necessary, otherwise it makes sense to go with the official Italian name, but including the main Sicilian variants in the actual article. We may need a Sicilian municipality template - no - we have decided to run with the general template used for Italian cities - please follow use of categories as described in Talk:List of Sicilian municipalities.

[edit] Other subjects related to Sicily and Sicilians (La Sicilia e li siciliani)

Much of what follows is still in the original Italian or Sicilian. Many titles might stay the same, others will definitely need to be anglicised. Many blue links have been left because they all need to be looked at, be they stubs or not. As articles begin to look complete, they can be deleted from this project page.

[edit] Sicilian history (La storia dâ Sicilia)

• Main article: History of Sicily (now being voted on in Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive
• Articles about the history of Sicily (see here) - check thoroughly for red links and add them here
• See also scn:Category:Storia siciliana and it:Categoria:Storia della Sicilia
• Biographies of the Sicilian monarchs, such as Simon, Count of Sicily, Roger I of Sicily, William I of Sicily, William II of Sicily, Tancred of Sicily, Roger III of Sicily, William III of Sicily ... for more names see List of monarchs of Naples and Sicily
• From scn.wiki: scn:Munarchi di Sicilia, scn:Custanza di Sicilia, scn:Enzu di Sardegna, scn:Manfredi di Sicilia; scn:Category:Re siciliani
• The main monarchs have been done reasonably well (although all should be checked), the lesser monarchs probably need a bit more info. Then there are stacks of lesser nobles that have figured in the history of Sicily. Find them and add there names here! Adelaide, Regent of Sicily, Joan of England, Queen consort of Sicily, Queen Sibylla of Sicily, Constance of Aragon, Regent of Sicily, Margaret of Austria, Yolanda of Brienne, Isabella of England, Bianca Lancia,

[edit] Cites, towns and settlements from antiquity (Li citati e paiseddi antichi)

• Cities of founded by the Greeks: Valley of the Temples (Sicily) in Agrigento (Akragas), Camarina, Selinunte, Segesta, Erice, Drepanon, Megara Iblea, Syracuse, Eloro, Hymera (Sicily), Morgantina, Piazza Armerina, Gela (list to be completed)
• Phoenician cities: Motya
• Well known ancient architectual remains: Temple of Concordia, Temple of Zeus (or Olympaeon), Temple of Heracles and Temple of Juno Lacinia,
• Cities renowned for their art, architecture and historical treasures: Noto, Cefalù, Monreale, Piazza Armerina (to be completed)

[edit] Main epochs (L'èbbichi principali)

These epochs quite possibly merit their own separate articles, all linked to a good summary of Sicily's history: History of Sicily:

• History of Sicily (prehistory).
• History of Sicily (early Greek period).
• History of Sicily (Roman period).
• History of Sicily (Gothic period).
• History of Sicily (Byzantine period).
• History of Sicily (Arab period).
• History of Sicily (Norman period).
• History of Sicily (Swabian period). (brief Angevin period could be covered in the Sicilian Vespers and as the introduction to the Aragonese period).
• History of Sicily (Aragonese period).
• History of Sicily (Spanish period).
• History of Sicily (Bourbon period). (Two Sicilies and period of the Risorgimento and immediate aftermath)
• History of Sicily (modern period). (from late 1800s, through armed struggle for indpendence after World War II, the granting of regional autonomy, to the present day).

[edit] Historical figures (Pirsunaggi dâ storia)

• Bianca of Navarra, Ernesto Basile, Ferdinando Fuga, Francesco Laurana, Al-Idrisi, Asad ibn al-Furat, Belisarius, Diodorus Siculus, Fatimid, Hassan al-Kalbi, Ismâ`îl al-Mansûr bi-Nasr Allah, Ibn ath-Thimnah, Ibn Jubayr, Jawhar as-Siqilli, Yusuf al-Kalbi, George Maniakes, Margarite of Navarra, Robert Guiscard, Santa Eustochia Calafatu di Messina, Santa Lucia, Sant'Agatha, Euphemius of Sicily, Stephen du Perche, Richard Palmer, Markward of Anweiler, Walter of Palear, Diepold of Vohburg, Walter of Brienne, Gerard, Cardinal of Sant'Adriano, Morabit, Berthold of Hohenburg, Peter Ruffo, Edmund Crouchback, John of Procida, Walter Ophamil (Walter of the Mill), John of Saint-Rémy, William Porcelet, Palmieri Abbate, Alaimo of Lentini, Walter of Caltagirone, Bartholomew of Neocastro, Machalda of Scaletta, Asad ibn al-Furat, Gelo, Salvatore Giuliano

[edit] Other (Autri quistioni stòrichi)

• Tyrants of Akragas, Tyrants of Catania, Tyrants of Gela and Siracusa
• Triskelion (scn:Trisceli); Trinacria; Kingdom of Trinacria
• Jews in Sicily
• History of Palermo, History of Catania, History of Messina, History of Syracuse
• Peace treaty of Caltabellota
• Elymians, Sicani, Siculi
• Massacre of Biscari
• Sikelia
• Earthquake of Messina of 1908
• Earthquake of Val di Noto

[edit] Sicilian cuisine and produce

• DOP and IGP products: Pecorino siciliano, Ragusano, Olio Monti Iblei, Olio Valli Trapanesi, Olio Val di Mazara, Arancia rossa di Sicilia, Cappero di Pantelleria, Nocellara del Belice, Oliva da Tavola Nocellara del Belice, Uva da tavola di Canicattì, Cucuzza - should these be anglicised at all?? It would surely be churlish so not to do - Jigsawpuzzleman
• Presìdi Slow Food: Aglio rosso di Nubia, Asino Ragusano, Bottarga di Favignana, Capra Girgentana, Fava di Leonforte, Lenticchia di Ustica, Maiorchino, Mandorla di Noto, Manna delle Madonie, Melone d'inverno, Pane nero di Castelvetrano, Pesca tardiva di Leonforte, Pesca tabacchiera dell'Etna, Pistacchio di Bronte, Provola dei Nebrodi, Provola delle Madonie, Sale di Trapani, Suino nero dei Nebrodi, Vastedda del Belice
• Typical cuisine: Arancini (scn:Arancina), Pasta con le sarde, Sarde a beccafico, Pane ca meusa, Caponata, Cassata, Cannoli, Frutta martorana (also named "pasta reale"), Biancomangiare, Cubbaìta, Giuggolena, Granita, Latte di mandorla, Buccellato, Pignolata, Alivi a lu furnu, Biancu e Nero
• See also it:Categoria:Cucina siciliana

[edit] Culture/Arts/Cinema/Folklore

• Movies about or set in Sicily ([http://www.grifasi-sicilia.com/cinematografia.html See here for a complete list)
  

I cento passi by Marco Tullio Giordana, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore, Placido Rizzotto by Pasquale Scimeca, La terra trema and The Leopard by Luchino Visconti, Salvatore Giuliano and Cadaveri eccellenti by Francesco Rosi, The Sicilian by Michael Cimino, In nome della legge and Sedotta ed abbandonata by Pietro Germi, L'avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni, Mimì metallurgico ferito nell'onore by Lina Werthmuller, Johnny Stecchino by Roberto Benigni, Sicilia! by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, A ciascuno il suo byi Elio Petri, Don Giovanni in Sicilia by Alberto Lattuada; Il Postino;

• Personalities of Sicilian cinema:
  • Actors: Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Lando Buzzanca, Leo Gullotta, Salvatore Gioncardi, Angelo Musco, Salvo Randone, Turi Ferro, Saro Urzì, Tony Sperandeo, Enrico Lo Verso, Luigi Burruano, Pino Caruso
  • Directors: Vittorio De Seta, Pasquale Scimeca, Giuseppe Tornatore
    • of Sicilian heritage: Frank Capra, Martin Scorsese

[edit] Music/Mùsica

• Composers/Cumpusitura: Pietro Floridia;
• Songs/Canzuni: Ciuri Ciuri; A Luna Ammenzu u Mari; Si Maritau Rosa; Vitti na Crozza; U Sciccareddu;
• Musicians: Canterini di Ortigia; Orazio Strano;
• Singer-songwriters: Franco Battiato (stub)

[edit] Architecture/Famous buildings/Other man made features

• Sicilian Baroque;
• Filippu Juvarra;
• Cathedral of Palermo (Palermo Cathedral);
• Piano di Sant'Erasmo

[edit] Great artists

• Antonello da Messina, Pietro Novelli, Domenico Gagini, Guglielmo Borremans, Renato Guttuso, Oliviu Sozzi ...
• A connection with Sicily: Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel; Jean Claude Richard abbati di Saint Non;

[edit] Folklore

• See also scn:Folklori sicilianu and scn:Category:Folklori sicilianu
• Sicilian cart (scn:Carettu sicilianu)
• Sicilian riddles (scn:Nniminagghia}
• Marranzanu (sicilian version of the Jew's harp)
• Tarantella
• Sicilian mythology (scn:Mituluggìa siciliana)
• Sicilian puppets

[edit] Sicilian festivals and celebrations

[edit] Literature/Language

• Articles about Sicilian language, to be developed even on the other international Wiki (such as en:Sicilian language), scn:Lingua siciliana, scn:Pitrè:Tiuria dî soni, scn:Wikipedia:Grammatica, scn:Lingui siciliani prima dî nurmanni - translations of latter three required in English as Pitrè's theory of sounds, Sicilian grammar, Sicilian languages before the Normans
• See also scn:Category:Lingua siciliana; scn:Category:Littirati siciliani; scn:Littiratura Siciliana;
• Gallo-siculo;
• Sicilian dialects: Western Sicilian dialects, Central Sicilian dialects, Southeast Sicilian dialects, Eastern Sicilian dialects, Northeast Sicilian dialects, Aeolian dialects, Pantesco dialect, Southern Calabro dialects, Southern Pugliese dialects

[edit] Writers (Li scrittura siciliani)

• Michele Amari, Vincenzo Ancona, Filippo Benenati, Michelangelo Balistreri, Giuseppe Bonaviri, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, Vitaliano Brancati, Gesualdo Bufalino, Ignazio Buttitta, Edoardo Cacciatore, Alissandru Caldiero, Ursula Cottone, Santu Calì, Andrea Camilleri, Salvatore Camilleri, Tommaso Campailla, Luigi Capuana, Lara Cardella, Bartolo Cattafi, Enrico Cavacchioli, Giuseppi Cavallaru, Gaetano Cipolla, Vincenzo Consolo, Cielo d'Alcamo, Giacomo da Lentini, Stefano D'Arrigo, Federico De Roberto, Pier della Vigna, Giuseppe Dessì, Calogero Di Giuseppe, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Roberto Di Marco, Mazzeo di Ricco, Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo, Sebastiano Di Stefano, Ciullu di Vincenzullu, Giuseppe Fava, Angelo Fiore, Petru Fudduni, Carru Gemmillaru, Giovanni Gentile, Natalia Ginzburg, Jolanda Insana, Turi Lima, Pietro La Genga, Lina La Mattina, Augusto Manna, Dacia Maraini, Nino Martoglio, Giovanni Meli, Melissa Panarello, Ercole Patti, Ianu Pepe, Michele Perriera, Giorgio Piccitto, Luigi Pirandello, Giuseppe Pitrè, Antonio Pizzuto, Renzo Porcelli, Joseph F. Privitera, Stefano Protonotaro, Antonino Provenzano, Giacomino Pugliese, Salvatore Quasimodo, Gianni Riotta, Leonardo Sciascia, Sicilian School, Nat Scamacca, Marco Scalabrino, Giuseppe Scianò, Maria Sciaravallo, Domenico Tempio, Antonio Veneziano, Giovanni Verga, Elio Vittorini

[edit] Playwrights who wrote in Sicilian

• Dafni Michele Abruzzo, Tommaso Aversa, Vincenzo Belando, Roberto Cassia, Enrico Cavacchioli, Giovanni Alfredo Cesareo, Angelo Fiore, Giovanni Girgenti, Filippo Maria Jelo, Orazio La Rosa, Antonio Leontini, Giuseppe Litrico, Aldo Lo Castro, Mauro Longo, Giuseppe Macrì, Antonino Giuseppe Marchese, Gaspare Mosca, Toni Musumeci, Ercole Patti, Orazio Rapisarda, Giuseppe Rizzotto, Antonino Russo Giusti, Francesca Agnetta Sabato, Enzo Sanfilippo, Nino Savarese, Santi Savarino,

Enrico Serretta, Ciccino Sineri, Giuseppe Sinopoli Giusti, Salvatore Sottile, Giuseppe Spampinato

[edit] Writers from antiquity

• Ibn Hamdis, Ibn Jobair, Parmenide and Zenone, Evemero from Messina, Timeo from Tauromenio (today Taormina), Empedocles from Agrigento, Gorgia from Leontini (today Lentini), Diodoro Siculo from Agyrion (today Agira), Teocrito and Giulio Firmico Materno from Syracuse.

[edit] Literary works

• La Barunissa di Carini (The Baroness of Carini);

[edit] Sicilian scientists/mathematicians/other scholars/general biographies

• Archimedes, Antonino Zichichi, Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Ettore Majorana, Francesco Maurolico, Santi Correnti, Cannizzaro, Stanislao, Brother Giordano of Santo Stefano, Andrea of Burgio
• See also it:Categoria:Siciliani

[edit] Chronological listing of the directors of the Palermo Botanical Garden

[edit] Geography of Sicily (La giografìa dâ Sicilia)

• Geography of Sicily
• seas/other marine features: Mediterranean Sea; Straits of Messina; Tyrrhenian Sea; Ionian Sea; Gulf of Catania;
• rivers: Alcantara River, Le Gole Dell'Alcantara, Anapo, Belice, Calcinara, River Crinisus (if indeed it exists), Dittaino River, Drago River, Gela (river), Gornalunga River, Oreto River, Platani River, Salso River (or Imera Meridionale), Sant'Anna River (currently at Hypsas), Simeto River, Torto river
• lakes: Pergusa Lake, Pozzillo
• mountains: Nebrodi, Peloritani, Iblei, Madonie
• volcanoes: Etna, Stromboli, Vulcano, Ferdinandea Island
• islands: Aeolian Islands (Lipari, Vulcano, Stromboli, Alicudi, Filicudi, Panarea, Salina Island), Aegadian Islands (Favignana, Levanzo and Marettimo), Pelagian Islands (Lampedusa, Linosa, Lampione), Ustica, Pantelleria, Stagnone Islands
• promontories and peninsulas: Pelorus, Pachynus, Lilybæum, Ragusan peninsula

[edit] Sicilian sport/sportspeople

• stubs to be expanded: Amatori Catania, Calcio Catania, F.C. Messina Peloro, U.S. Ragusa, Orizzonte Geymonat Catania, Paternò Calcio, Gela J.T., F.C. Vittoria, A.S. Acireale, F.C. Igea Virtus Barcellona, Modica Calcio
• biographies to write: Giusi Malato, Salvatore Antibo, Giuseppe Gibilisco, Valerio Vermiglio
• requested articles: Cus Palermo, U.S. Siracusa, A.S. Trapani

[edit] Politics/Pulìtica and contemporary society

• Modern political processes of Sicily
• Sicilian regional assembly; Special autonomy statutes of Sicily;
• President of Sicily: Salvatore Cuffaro, Rita Borsellino, Sicilian regional election, 2006
• Other politicians from Sicily: Salvatore Cardinale, Ferdinando Latteri, Diego Cammarata, Leoluca Orlando, Enzo Bianco, Umberto Scapagnini, Gianfranco Micciché, Luigi Cocilovo, Claudio Fava, Rosario Crocetta, Marcello Dell'Utri, Sergio D'Antoni, Ignazio La Russa, Calogero Mannino, Nicolò Nicolosi
• Flag of Sicily
• Mafia: Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino, Rocco Chinnici, Rosario Livatino, Antonino Caponnetto, Libero Grassi, Salvo Lima

[edit] Presidents of Sicily (Prisidenti dâ Sicilia)

• Francesco Musotto
• Giuseppe La Loggia
• Silvio Milazzo
• Benedetto Majorana della Nicchiara
• Salvatore Corallo
• Giuseppe D'Angelo
• Francesco Coniglio
• Vincenzo Carollo
• Mario Fasino
• Vincenzo Giumarra
• Angelo Bonfiglio
• Gaetano Giuliano
• Mario D'Acquisto
• Calogero Lo Giudice
• Santi Nicita
• Modesto Sardo
• Rosario Nicolosi
• Vincenzo Leanza
• Giuseppe Campione
• Francesco Martino
• Matteo Graziano
• Giuseppe Provenzano

[edit] Economy and Industry (L'econumìa e la nnustria)

• Modern economy of Sicily
• Windjet, Palermo International Airport, Catania-Fontanarossa Airport, Vincenzo Florio Airport
• Newspapers of Sicily: Giornale di Sicilia, La Sicilia

[edit] Sicilian organisations and institutions

• Arba Sicula; Sicilia Parra
• University of Palermo, University of Catania, University of Messina
• Fronte Nazionale Siciliano; L'Altra Sicilia

[edit] Gardens, parks, nature reserves

• Orto botanico di Palermo (Palermo Botanical Garden) - currently being translated from it:Orto botanico di Palermo

[edit] Templates

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{{Sicily-geo-stub}} Talk	This Sicilian location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	Use for articles on Sicilian municipalities (comuni o cumuna).
{{Scn icon}} Talk	(Sicilian)	Put after an external link to denote that it is written in the Sicilian language.
{{Infobox CityIT}} Talk	{{{city}}} Country Italy Region {{{region}}} Province {{{province}}} Mayor {{{mayor}}} Elevation {{{altitude}}} m Area {{{area_cityproper}}} km² Population  - Total {{{populationdensity}}}  - Density {{{populationdensitymetric}}}/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Coordinates {{{coordinates}}} Gentilic {{{gentilic}}} Dialing code {{{telephone}}} Postal code {{{postalcode}}}	To be used for articles on all Sicilian municipalities (comuni or cumuna; see List of Sicilian municipalities)
Example of the Infobox CityIT template:	Mazara del Vallo Municipal coat of arms Country Italy Region Sicily Province Trapani (TP) Mayor Giorgio Macaddino (since June 26, 2004) Elevation 8 m Area 275 km² Population  - Total (as of 2001) 50,377  - Density 175/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Coordinates 37°39′N 12°35′E Gentilic Mazaresi Dialing code 0923 Postal code 91026 Frazioni Mazara Due, Borgata Costiera Patron St. Vito  - Day June 15 Website: www.comune.mazara-del-vallo.tp.it

[edit] External links

• (Italian) Almanacco Siciliano (Sicilian Almanac) Piccola Enciclopedia popolare di storia Siciliana di tutti i tempi (A small popular Encyclopedia of Sicilian history)
• Sicily General site dedicated to Sicily. Dozens of topics. Updated often.
• (Italian) Carnevale di Acireale il piu bel carnevale di Sicilia (the most beautiful carnival in Sicily)
• Images
  • Images of Sicily travel photos from destinations all around the island
  • More Images of Sicily
  • Artistic Photos of Sicily
• Location, maps and aerial imagery: 37°36′0″N, 14°10′0″E
• Map of Sicily
• Sicilian Culture The Food, People, History, Culture, Wine, Language, Traditions, News & Views!
• Sicilian Origins in Europe arguing that Sicilians are descended from Ancient Greek and Italic settlers, with minimal foreign admixture

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