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The Trinacria

Can't find it here? The "Peoples of Sicily" series and "Biography" links follow... More articles about history, people, places, culture, art and society are presented in the Magazine, a great page to visit if you don't find a certain topic in the main history section --kings, queens, artists, musicians, wildlife, personalities, legends and much more. Or try searching in the site index. The locality pages link to histories of particular cities and towns.

Peoples of Sicily Series
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Biography
Eleonora Abbagnato (ballerina)
Aeschylus (classical playwright)
Agathocles (Greek tyrant of Syracuse)
Antonello da Messina (Renaissance artist)
Archimedes (scientist)
Giuseppe Balsamo ("Cagliostro")
Vincenzo Bellini (composer)
Paolo Borsellino (jurist)
Bourbon-Two Sicilies Dynasty
Andrea Camilleri (novelist)
Stanislao Cannizzaro (chemist)
Ciullo d'Alcamo (medieval poet)
Pompeo Colajanni (partisan)
Constance of Aragon (queen of Sicily)
Francesco Crispi (prime minister)
Maria Grazia Cucinotta (actress)
Danilo Dolci (social activist)
Diodorus Siculus (historian)
Dion (tyrant of Syracuse)
Ducetius (Sicel leader)
Empedocles (philosopher)
Hugo Falcandas (medieval chronicler)
Giovanni Falcone (jurist)
Gorgias of Lentini (sophist philosopher)
Marella Ferrera (fashion designer)
Ignazio Florio (industrialist)
Frederick II (king and emperor)
Johann W. von Goethe (writer)
Libero Grassi (entrepreneur)
Abdullah al Idrisi (geographer)
Jawhar as-Siqilli (Fatimid general)
Joan (Plantagenet) of England (queen of Sicily)
Ibn Jubayr (geographer)
Guido Jung (politician)
Francesco Laurana (sculptor)
Laura Lanza (Baroness of Carini)
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (novelist)
Francesco Lo Jacono (painter)
Louis IX of France
Manfred (king of Sicily)
Maria Sophia of Bavaria (queen of Sicily)
Francesco Messina (sculptor)
Mario Minniti (painter)
Nicodemus of Palermo (bishop)
Peter of Eboli (medieval chronicler)
Luigi Pirandello (writer)
Salvatore Quasimodo (poet)
Roger II (first king of Sicily)
Savoy Dynasty
Alessandro Scarlatti (composer)
Leonardo Sciascia (writer)
Emilio Segré (physicist and Nobel laureate)
Giacomo Serpotta (sculptor)
Giuseppe Di Stefano (operatic tenor)
Stesichorus (Greek lyric poet)
Luigi Sturzo (statesman)
Giuseppe Tornatore (movie director)
Fulco de Verdura (jewelry designer)
Giovanni Verga (writer)
William II (king of Sicily)

The three legs of the Trinacria, the heraldic symbol of Sicily, are said to represent the island's three points. The head depicted in the center is that of Medusa. The Trinacria is quite similar to the three-legged heraldic symbol of the Isle of Man, another medieval Norman dominion.