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Enna is in a position of splendid isolation: it is the highest provincial capital in Italy, in a beautiful and unusual location. Archaeological finds attest that the area has been inhabited since prehistoric times. Later it was an indigenous centre: first Sican and then Sicel. In the 7th c. BC it began to assimilate Greek culture through the influence of Gela, and in the 5th c. BC the town was completely Hellenized. In the 4th c. BC it was conquered by Dionysius I and then by Agathocles, tyrants of Syracuse. During the first Punic war, Enna was occupied first by the Carthaginians and then by the Romans (258 BC), who declared it a free municipium.
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