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Porto Empedocle is a municipality in Italy, located on the island of Sicily. It is notable as the birthplace of the ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles and serves as an important port town in the region.
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.comune.portoempedocle.ag.it
- Image
- PtEmpedocle.JPG
- Dialing code
- 0922
- Licence plate code
- AG
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Porto Empedocle (Sicilian: 'a Marina) is a town and comune in Italy on the coast of the Strait of Sicily, administratively part of the province of Agrigento. It was named after Empedocles, a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of the city of Akragas (present-day Agrigento), in his day a Greek colony in Sicily. The primary industries of Porto Empedocle are agriculture, fishing, ironworking, pharmaceuticals and rock salt refining.
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