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Caronia
Καλάκτα/Kalàkta | |
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| Comune di Caronia | |
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 Coat of arms | |
  Caronia Location of Caronia in Italy  Caronia Caronia (Sicily) | |
| Coordinates: 38°01′N 14°26′E / 38.017°N 14.433°E | |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Sicily |
| Metropolitan city | Messina (ME) |
| Frazioni | Canneto, Marina, Torre del Lauro |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Giuseppe Cuffari |
| Area | |
• Total | 226 km2 (87 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 304 m (997 ft) |
| Population (30 April 2012)[2] | |
• Total | 3,414 |
| • Density | 15.1/km2 (39.1/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Caronesi |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 98072 |
| Dialing code | 0921 |
| Patron saint | Saint Blaise |
| Saint day | February 3 |
| Website | Official website |
Caronia (Sicilian: Carunìa, Greek: Καλάκτα (Ptol.) or Καλὴ Ἀκτὴ (Diod. et al.), Latin: Calacte or Cale Acte) is a town and comune on the north coast of Sicily, in the Metropolitan City of Messina, about halfway between Tyndaris (modern Tindari) and Cephaloedium (modern Cefalù). The town has 3,555 inhabitants.
History
[edit]Kale Akte (or Caleacte, Calacta, Calacte) derived its name from the beauty of the neighboring country; the whole of this strip of coast between the Montes Heraei and the sea being called by the Greek settlers of Magna Graecia from an early period, the Fair Shore (ἡ καλὴ Ἀκτή – he Kale Akte). Its beauty and fertility had attracted the particular attention of the Zanclaeans, who in consequence invited the Samians and Milesians (after the capture of Miletus by the Persians, 494 BC) to establish themselves on this part of the Sicilian coast. Events, however, turned their attention elsewhere, and they ended with occupying Zancle itself.[3] At a later period the project was resumed by the Sikel leader Ducetius, who, after his expulsion from Sicily by Syracuse and his exile at Corinth, returned at the head of a body of colonists from the Peloponnese; and having obtained much support from the neighbouring Siculi, especially from Archonides, dynast of Herbita, according to Diodorus Siculus founded a city on the coast, which was called Kalè Akté (The Fair Shore or Beautiful Coast).[4] The date given by Diodorus is 446 BC, but in another passus the same author says that Ducetius colonised Kale Akte in 440 BC, the same year he died. In addition, recent excavations at Caronia, which is clearly the site of the Hellenistic and Roman town Kale Akte, have revealed only very sparse remains from the 5th century BC, and show that a Sikel settlement already existed here in the early 5th century BC.[5] It is possible that Ducetius founded the colony on the site of this already existing Sikel settlement, just as he had done at Menai and Paliké.
Some scholars have hypothesised that Ducetius returned without the consent of Syracuse,[6] but this is very improbable.[7] He must have had the permission of Syracuse to end the exile at Corinth (the mother city of Syracuse), and he brought according to Diodorus partly Corinthian settlers for the colonising project at Kale Akte. Syracuse would have had an interest of establishing an allied Sikel-Greek colony on the north coast, without risking too much in a potentially hostile Sikel-dominated area.[8]
There are little subsequent account of its fortunes. It appears to have been in Cicero's time a considerable municipal town.[9] Silius Italicus speaks of it as abounding in fish, litus piscosa Calacte[10] and its name, though omitted by Pliny, is found in Ptolemy, as well as in the Antonine Itineraries; but there is considerable difficulty in regard to its position. The distances given in the Tabula Peutingeriana, however (12 M. P. from Alaesa, and 30 M. P. from Cephaloedium), coincide with the site of the modern town of Caronia, on the shore below which Fazello tells us that ruins and vestiges of an ancient city were still visible in his time. Cluverius, who visited Caronia, speaks with admiration of the beauty and pleasantness of this part of the coast, littoris excellens amoenitas et pulchritudo, which rendered it fully worthy of its ancient name.[11]
The Greek rhetorician Caecilius of Caleacte, who flourished in the time of Augustus, was a native of Caleacte, whence he derived the surname of Calactinus.[12]
In 2003–2004 and 2014, two series of unusual fires were reported in the village of Canneto, 136 kilometres (85 mi) west of Messina. Officials have suggested that these fires were cases of arson and arrests were made,[13][14][15] though the arrests only related to the 2014 wave.[16][17] However, persistent speculation has ascribed the fires to other natural and supernatural causes due to anomalies reported by eyewitnesses. From December 2003 to August 2004, appliances, including a television, a cooker, and a vacuum cleaner, were reported to have caught fire spontaneously. Fires also reportedly struck wedding presents and a piece of furniture. At least one person was said to have observed an unplugged electrical cable ignite spontaneously. The outbreaks reportedly continued after ENEL, the Italian power utility, cut off the town's power supply.[18][14] In 2008, investigators suggested that the 2003–2004 fires were caused by arson.[19] Mysterious fires again occurred in mid-2014.[20] On 5 March 2015, police arrested and charged Giuseppe Pezzino, 26, with arson, conspiracy to commit fraud, and sounding a false alarm in association with the mysterious fires. His father, Antonino Pezzino, has also been implicated. The Italian military police had installed hidden cameras in the streets after the fires started again (July 2014). Video captured about 40 incidents implicating Giuseppe (and occasionally, Antonino). Further evidence was gathered by phone taps.[14][21] They were not accused of having been involved in the original 2003–2004 wave of events.[16][17]
Climate
[edit]The climate is Hot Summer Mediterranean. The station’s elevation is 302 meters above sea level.
| Climate data for Caronia (1985-2015) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 15.8 (60.4) |
16.1 (61.0) |
17.9 (64.2) |
20.8 (69.4) |
25.1 (77.2) |
28.8 (83.8) |
31.9 (89.4) |
32.5 (90.5) |
28.9 (84.0) |
25.7 (78.3) |
21.4 (70.5) |
17.0 (62.6) |
24.3 (75.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 8.9 (48.0) |
8.6 (47.5) |
9.6 (49.3) |
12.0 (53.6) |
15.4 (59.7) |
18.8 (65.8) |
21.8 (71.2) |
21.9 (71.4) |
19.7 (67.5) |
16.7 (62.1) |
13.2 (55.8) |
10.3 (50.5) |
13.1 (55.6) |
| Source: Source[22] | |||||||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ Herodotus vi. 22, 23.
- ^ Diod. xii. 8, 2.
- ^ Lentini M C - Lindhagen, A - Göransson, K 'Excavations at Sicilian Caronia, ancient Kale Akte', Opuscula Romana 21, 2002, 79-108; Lindhagen, A, Caleacte. production and exchange in a North Sicilian town c. 500 BC-AD 500, diss., University of Lund 2006.
- ^ Adameșteanu, D, 'L'ellenizzazione della Sicilia ed il momento di Ducezio', Kokalos 8, 1962, 190-196.
- ^ Rizzo, F P, La repubblica di Siracusa nel momento di Ducezio, Palermo 1970.
- ^ Rizzo 1970; Lindhagen 2006.
- ^ Cicero In Verrem iii. 4. 3, ad Fam. xiii. 37.
- ^ xiv. 251.
- ^ Cluver. Sicil. p. 291; Tommaso Fazello i. p. 383; Tab. Peut.; Itin. Ant. p. 92; where the numbers, however, are certainly corrupt.
- ^ Athen. vi. p. 272.
- ^ "Canneto di Caronia (Me): gli incendi? Opera degli uomini" [Caronia (Me): fires? Opera men]. ecodisicilia.com (webpage) (in Italian). 12 June 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-09-19. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- ^ a b c "A Decade of Mysterious Fires in a Sicilian Village". The Atavist Magazine. 2016-11-15. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
- ^ "Setter of Sicily mystery fires arrested - English". ANSA.it. 2015-03-05. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
- ^ a b "PATTI – "Misteriosi incendi di Canneto di Caronia", la procura di Patti richiede il rinvio a giudizio per i due Pezzino". Patti24. 3 June 2015. Archived from the original on 25 October 2021.
Ma questi fatti non costituiscono oggetto dell'attuale procedimento dato che il fenomeno subiva una sostanziale interruzione nel 2008.
- ^ a b "Roghi di Caronia, arrestato il figlio del presidente del comitato vittime: incendi per avere aiuti". Rai News 24. 5 March 2015. Archived from the original on 23 August 2026.
Sarebbero loro i responsabili dei ripetuti episodi nel piccolo paese del Messinese che hanno attirato a lungo l'attenzione dei media di tutto il mondo, almeno per quanto riguarda i casi del 2014.
- ^ Baker, Al (24 June 2004). "Canneto di Caronia Journal; Electricity Goes Wild. Did the Devil Make It Do It?". The New York Times.
- ^ "Canneto di Caronia (Me): gli incendi? Opera degli uomini" [Caronia (Me): fires? Opera men]. ecodisicilia.com (webpage) (in Italian). 12 June 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-09-19. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- ^ "Mysterious Spontaneous Combustions Return to Sicilian City | Mysterious Universe".
- ^ "Setter of Sicily mystery fires arrested - English". ANSA.it. 2015-03-05. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
- ^ a b Source
Sources
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
