Agrigento
Noun 1. a town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast; the site of six Greek temples (synonym) Acragas, Girgenti (hypernym) town (part-holonym) Sicily, Sicilia | ||||
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Agrigento
Agrigento (Girgenti in Sicilian) is a dense town on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, and capital of the province of Agrigento. The little city is renowned as the site of the ancient Greek city of Akragras (a.k.a. Acragas in Greek, Agrigentum in Latin, and Kerkent in Arabic), one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia, that is, during the Golden age of Ancient Greece.
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