Sicilian

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Sicily is an autonomous Italian island. The adjectival form
Sicilian can also refer to:

• Sicilian language
• Sicilian Baroque, baroque architecture in 17th & 18th centuries on Sicily
• Sicilian cart, an ornate, colorful style of horse-drawn cart native to Sicily
• Sicilian Defence, in chess
• Sicilian derby, an annual football (soccer) match in Sicily
• Sicilian Expedition, an abortive military filibuster from Athens in 415 BCE
• Sicilian Fir, Abies nebrodensis, an evergreen tree native to northern Sicily
• Sicilian octave, an Italian verse form consisting of eight lines of eleven syllables each
• Sicilian people,
• Sicilian pizza, pizza with ingredients incorporated into the dough
• Sicilian revolt, (44BCE - 36BCE)
• Sicilian School, poetry (1230 - 1266)
• Sicilian Stage, faunal stage in Europa (0.781-0.26 mya)
• Sicilian Vespers, a rebellion in Sicily in 1282
• Sicilian Wars, a series of wars between Carthage and Greeks (480 BCE - 307 BCE)
• The Sicilian, a novel by Mario Puzo

[edit] See also

• Caecilian, an order of amphibians, occasionally pronounced Sicilian