Asinaro
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The Asinaro is a river in Sicily in the province of Syracuse. It is 22 km long, flowing from the Hyblaean Mountains into the Ionian Sea. It passes through the UNESCO World Heritage city of Noto. The river was known as the Assinaros in antiquity; in 413 BC it was the site of the final crushing defeat of the retreating Athenian expeditionary force which had been besieging Syracuse.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in river_region, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Drainage basins of the Ionian Sea, Rivers of Italy and Rivers of the Province of Syracuse.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- mouth of the watercourse
- Ionian Sea
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- Asinaro
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- located in/on physical feature
- Sicily
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The Asinaro is a river in Sicily in the province of Syracuse. It is 22 km long, flowing from the Hyblaean Mountains into the Ionian Sea. It passes through the UNESCO World Heritage city of Noto. The river was known as the Assinaros in antiquity; in 413 BC it was the site of the final crushing defeat of the retreating Athenian expeditionary force which had been besieging Syracuse.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asinaro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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