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Aeolian Islands

Mount Etna

Syracuse & Necropolis of Pantalica

Villa Romana del Casale

Late Baroque Towns of Val di Noto

Valley of the Temples, Agrigento

Arab-Norman Palermo, Cefalù & Monreale

Heritage & Identity

History Deep Dives

Epilogue — Sicilian Life Today

Rise of the Sicilian People

Post War Sicily

Sicily During World War II

Sicily in Early 20th Century

Sicilian Life at Turn of 20th Century

Union with Kingdom of Italy

Fall of the Bourbons & Risorgimento

Revolution & Invasion of Sicily

Revolutions of 1848

Bourbon Kingdom of Two Sicilies

Sicily in Transition

Submission to Spanish Rule

The Angevins & the Aragonese

Sicily Under Hohenstaufen Rule

The Lengthening Shadow

Norman Succession

Norman Kingdom — Golden Age

Norman Invasion of Sicily

The Normans in Italy

Rebirth Under Arab Rule

Sicily in the Byzantine Empire

Christianization & Fall of Rome

Arrival of the Romans

Greek Tyrants of Sicily

Golden Age of the Greek World

Earliest Inhabitants– Greek Colonization of Sicily

Unification & Modern Era

Bourbon Kingdom

Aragonese & Spanish Rule

Hohenstaufen & Angevin

Norman Kingdom

Arab Revival

Barbarian and Byzantine Rule

Roman Sicily

Greek Colonization and Rule

Prehistoric & Early Inhabitants

Author’s Notes

Sicilian Culture & Traditions

Travel & Places