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During the Muslim ruled period of Sicily, the island was divided into three different administrative regions: the ''Val di Noto'' in the southeast, the ''Val Demone'' in the northeast and the ''Val di Mazara'' in the west. Each zone has a noticeably different agriculture and topography and they converged near Castrogiovanni. The term ''val'' or ''vallo'' (plural ''valli'') is probably derived from the Siculo-Arabic ''wilayah'', meaning "province". There are many Arab-derived names in the Val di Mazara (and more Christians converted to Islam from this region), are more mixed in the Val di Noto, while Christian (particularly Greek) identities survived strongest in the Val Demone (with the least Arab-derived names), which was the last to fall to the Muslims, where Christian refugees from other parts of Sicily had assembled, and which furthermore remained in contact with Byzantine southern Italy.〔Metcalfe (2009), pp. 34–36, 40〕 Later Christian Lombard settlements would split the remaining Muslims of Sicily in half, separating the Val di Mazara and the Val di Noto. Even after Muslim rule, the three valli system was still continued up until 1818, when Sicily was divided into seven provinces. From the 16–17th century, the population of Val di Noto expanded the slowest of the three valli, with Val di Mazara growing fastest. The three valli are represented by the three-legged Trinacria symbol which appears on the flag of Sicily. ==See also== *Muslim conquest of Sicily 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「Three valli of Sicily」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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