Milena, Sicily
Milena | |
|---|---|
| Comune di Milena | |
Location of Milena  | |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Sicily |
| Province | Caltanissetta (CL) |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Giuseppe Vitellaro |
| Area | |
| • Total | 24.5 km2 (9.5 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 423 m (1,388 ft) |
| Population (30 November 2011)[2] | |
| • Total | 3,171 |
| • Density | 130/km2 (340/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Milenesi ("Milucchisi" in local dialect) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 93010 |
| Dialing code | 0934 |
| Website | Official website |
Milena (Sicilian: Milocca) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Caltanissetta in the Italian region Sicily, located about 80 kilometres (50 miles) southeast of Palermo and about 30 kilometres (19 miles) west of Caltanissetta.
Formerly known as Milocca, it was the subject of a book, Milocca: A Sicilian Village by Charlotte Gower Chapman, who in 1935 detailed everyday life in the small rural Sicilian town, one of the earliest cultural anthropology studies of a semi-literate people.
Its name is a form of homage to the Queen Milena of Montenegro, the mother of the Queen Elena, wife of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.
International relations
Milena is twinned with:
References
- ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ Demographics data from ISTAT