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Caltabellotta
Comune
Comune di Caltabellotta
Coat of arms of Caltabellotta
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Location of Caltabellotta
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Caltabellotta is located in Italy
Caltabellotta
Caltabellotta
Location of Caltabellotta in Italy
Caltabellotta is located in Sicily
Caltabellotta
Caltabellotta
Caltabellotta (Sicily)
Coordinates: 37°35′N 13°13′E / 37.583°N 13.217°E / 37.583; 13.217
CountryItaly
RegionSicily
ProvinceAgrigento (AG)
FrazioniSant'Anna
Government
 • MayorPaolo Luciano Segreto
Area
[1]
 • Total124.09 km2 (47.91 sq mi)
Elevation
949 m (3,114 ft)
Population
 (30 April 2017)[2]
 • Total3,601
 • Density29/km2 (75/sq mi)
DemonymCaltabellottesi
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
92010
Dialing code0925
Patron saintSaint Pellegrino
Saint day18 August
WebsiteOfficial website

Caltabellotta (Sicilian: Cataviḍḍotta) is a comune (municipality) in the province of Agrigento, in the Italian region Sicily, located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) south of Palermo and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) northwest of Agrigento.

History

Caltabellotta has been identified with the ancient town of the Sicani Triocala, captured by the Romans in 99 BC. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and several centuries under the Byzantine Empire, it was stormed by the Arabs, who later built here a castle. In 1090 it was conquered by the Normans of Roger of Sicily.

The diocese of Triocala, called in Latin Trecalae in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees,[3] is mentioned in the 6th-century Synecdemus as Τρόκαλις (Trocalis).[4]

Its reputed first bishop was Saint Pellegrino, a disciple of Saint Peter. Historical documents give the names of four bishops of the see:[5]

The town was the location of the Peace of Caltabellotta (1302) which ended the War of the Sicilian Vespers.

People

References

  1. ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. ^ All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.
  3. ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 996
  4. ^ Hieroclis Synecdemus et notitiae graecae episcopatuum, accedunt Nili Doxapatrii notitia patriarchatuum et locorum nomina immutata, ex recognitione Gustavi Parthey, Berlin 1866, p. 77 (nº 586)
  5. ^ Giuseppe Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'Italia dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni, Venezia 1870, vol. XXI, pp. 606–607

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