palermo A metropolitan city in Sicily, Italy which comprises the city of Palermo and other 82 municipalities.
palermo A city in the autonomous region of Sicily, Italy.
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palermo (anc. Panormus). A fortified city of Sicily, situated on the
north side of the island. Palermo is of Phœnician origin, and is first
brought into notice in 480 B.C., when the Carthaginians under Hamilcar
made it their headquarters against Himera. How it came into their hands
we have no means of knowing; but it continued for a long time to be
their principal naval station, and the capital of their possessions in
Sicily. With the exception of a short time, about 276 B.C., when it was
taken by the Greeks, it continued to be the headquarters of the
Carthaginians, until it was taken by the Romans during the first Punic
war (254 B.C.). When Sicily was conquered by the Goths, Palermo, along
with the rest of the island, fell into their hands; but it was recovered
by Belisarius, and the Byzantine empire retained possession of it till
855 A.D., when it was taken by the Saracens, and made the capital of
their Sicilian possessions. The Vandals and afterwards the Arabs made it
the capital of the island, and after the Norman conquest it continued to
be the seat of the king of Sicily. It still remained the royal residence
under the Aragonese kings; but the court was removed (1269) after Sicily
became united to the kingdom of Naples. In 1860 the inhabitants flocked
to the standard of Garibaldi, and in the same year the city was annexed
to the new kingdom of Italy.
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Palermo is a Italian city, the capital of Sicily, with 720,000 inhabitants and more than 1,000,000 in the metropolitan area. The city was Islamic, Normandic, and from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilys.
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