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Sambuca di Sicilia (Sicilian: ''Sammuca'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Agrigento in the Italian region Sicily, located about southwest of Palermo and about northwest of Agrigento. As of 31 December 2010, it had a population of 6207 and an area of .〔All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.〕 Sambuca di Sicilia borders the following municipalities: Bisacquino, Caltabellotta, Contessa Entellina, Giuliana, Menfi, Santa Margherita di Belice, Sciacca. ==History== The origins of the name are uncertain. The main assumptions: Sambuca as a Greek musical instrument in the shape of a harp or the implantation of the old town. Sambuca from the elderberry plants, widespread in antiquity in the valley of Lake Orange. Leonardo Sciascia breaks down the current name Sambuca in as-Sabuqah and interprets it as a "remote place". Vincenzo Navarro decreed that "Sambuca", "Zabut" is nothing but an "Arpette" and until 1928 the town was called Sambuca Zabut. in 1928, Benito Mussolini removed Zabut and added "of Sicily". Sambuca, was founded by the Arabs around 830, a few years after their landing in Sicily and was called Zabuth (in remembrance of the same name Zabut Al-Arab emir who had built a castle at that place) and built the slopes of Mount Genuardo, between the rivers Belice and Sosius, 350 meters above sea level Zabut Al-Maghrebi was a follower of the ascetic Ibn Mankud Conqueror 's "Burning Warrior of faith," Lord of the independent Kabyle of Trapani, Marsala, Sciacca. Zabut was inhabited by Muslim population until the thirteenth century until was conquered by Frederick II. From the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, Sambuca experienced vicissitudes of prosperity and plagues, prosperity and misery, splendor and earthquakes. Despite all Sambuca progressed. The court passed the Roman family Barberini and new neighborhoods were built, widened the city wall were built palaces and baronial mansions, churches, monasteries, convents. The Land of Sambuca was promoted from Barony to Marquess with the privilege of Philip II of Spain (Madrid 15 November 1570). The Marquess of Sambuca, the 16 September 1666, passed to Beccadelli family from Bologna risen to the rank of princes of the Principality of Camporeale. Sambuca in the nineteenth century is rich with culture. In those years it formed an enlightened middle class, which the animator Vincent Navarro was more qualified as a medical time out, writer, poet and patriot. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sambuca di Sicilia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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