Place:Polizzi Generosa, Palermo, Sicilia, Italy

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NamePolizzi Generosa
Alt namesPolizzisource: Family History Library Catalog
TypeTown
Coordinates37.817°N 14.0°E
Located inPalermo, Sicilia, Italy
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Polizzi Generosa (Sicilian: 'Pulizzi') is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Palermo on the island of Sicily, southern Italy. The town sits in the hills at above sea level.

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The site of Polizzi shows signs of human occupation dating to the 6th century BC, with archaeological finds including coins from Himera, Carthaginian remains and a Hellenistic necropolis. In the 4th century it was a Carthaginian fortress occupied by mercenaries from Campania.

The town probably developed as a population centre in the late Middle Ages, growing around the castle built by the Norman Count of Sicily Roger I in 1076.

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