Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
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| city in Sicily, Italy | WIKI |
| This article is about the city in Sicily. | WIKI |
| Syracuse[a] is an historic city on the Italian island of Sicily, the capital of the Italian province of Syracuse. | WIKI |
| The city is notable for its rich Greek and Roman history, culture, amphitheatres, architecture, and as the birthplace of the preeminent mathematician and engineer Archimedes. | WIKI |
| [8] This 2,700-year-old city played a key role in ancient times, when it was one of the major powers of the Mediterranean world. | WIKI |
| The city was founded by Ancient Greek Corinthians and Teneans[9] and became a very powerful city-state. | WIKI |
| Syracuse was allied with Sparta and Corinth and exerted influence over the entirety of Magna Graecia, of which it was the most important city. | WIKI |
| Described by Cicero as "the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of them all",[10] it equaled Athens in size during the fifth century BC. | WIKI |
| In the modern day, the city is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site along with the Necropolis of Pantalica. | WIKI |
| In the central area, the city itself has a population of around 125,000 people. | WIKI |
| [12] The patron saint of the city is Saint Lucy; she was born in Syracuse and her feast day, Saint Lucy's Day, is celebrated on 13 December. | WIKI |
| There are many attested variants of the name of the city including xcexa3xcfx85xcfx81xcexacxcexbaxcexbfxcfx85xcfx83xcexb1xcexb9 Syrakousai, xcexa3xcfx85xcfx81xcexacxcexbaxcexbfxcfx83xcexb1xcexb9 Syrakosai and xcexa3xcfx85xcfx81xcexb1xcexbaxcfx8e Syrakxc5x8d. | WIKI |
| [7] A possible origin of the city's name was given by Vibius Sequester citing[13] first Stephanus Byzantius[7][14] in that there was a Syracusian marsh (xcexbbxcexafxcexbcxcexbdxcexb7) called Syrako and secondly Marcian's Periegesis wherein Archias gave the city the name of a nearby marsh; hence one gets Syrako (and thereby Syrakousai and other variants) for the name of Syracuse, a name also attested by Epicharmus. | WIKI |
| [16] The nucleus of the ancient city was the small island of Ortygia. | WIKI |
| The city grew and prospered, and for some time stood as the most powerful Greek city anywhere in the Mediterranean. | WIKI |
| The descendants of the first colonists, called Gamoroi, held power until they were expelled by the Killichiroi, the lower class of the city. | WIKI |
| Gelo himself became the despot of the city, and moved many inhabitants of Gela, Kamarina and Megara to Syracuse, building the new quarters of Tyche and Neapolis outside the walls. | WIKI |
| His program of new constructions included a new theatre, designed by Damocopos, which gave the city a flourishing cultural life: this in turn attracted personalities as Aeschylus, Ario of Methymna and Eumelos of Corinth. | WIKI |
| A temple dedicated to Athena (on the site of today's Cathedral), was erected in the city to commemorate the event. | WIKI |
| The complete population of its territory approximately numbered 250,000 in 415xc2xa0BC and the population size of the city itself was probably similar to Athens. | WIKI |
| [17] The city continued to expand in Sicily, fighting against the rebellious Siculi, and on the Tyrrhenian Sea, making expeditions up to Corsica and Elba. | WIKI |
| The following year the Corinthian Timoleon installed a democratic regime in the city after he exiled Dionysius and defeated Hicetas. | WIKI |
| After Timoleon's death the struggle among the city's parties restarted and ended with the rise of another tyrant, Agathocles, who seized power with a coup in 317xc2xa0BC. | WIKI |
| The Romans, led by consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus, besieged the city in 214xc2xa0BC. | WIKI |
| The city held out for three years, but fell in 212xc2xa0BC. | WIKI |
| In 212xc2xa0BC, the Romans received information that the city's inhabitants were to participate in the annual festival to their goddess Artemis. | WIKI |
| A small party of Roman soldiers approached the city under the cover of night and managed to scale the walls to get into the outer city and with reinforcements soon took control, killing Archimedes in the process, but the main fortress remained firm. | WIKI |
| Christianity spread in the city through the efforts of Paul of Tarsus and Saint Marziano, the first bishop of the city, who made it one of the main centres of proselytism in the West. | WIKI |
| The city was besieged by the Aghlabids for almost a year in 827xe2x80x93828, but Byzantine reinforcements prevented its fall. | WIKI |
| The city, nevertheless, maintained important trade relationships, and housed a relatively flourishing cultural and artistic life: several Arab poets, including Ibn Hamdis, the most important Sicilian Arab poet of the 12th century, flourished in the city. | WIKI |
| In 1038, the Byzantine general George Maniakes reconquered the city, sending the relics of St. Lucy to Constantinople. | WIKI |
| In 1085 the Normans entered Syracuse, one of the last Arab strongholds, after a summer-long siege by Roger I of Sicily and his son Jordan of Hauteville, who was given the city as count. | WIKI |
| After a short period of Genoese rule (1205xe2x80x931220) under the notorious admiral and pirate Alamanno da Costa, which favoured a rise of trades, royal authority was re-asserted in the city by Frederick II. | WIKI |
| The city was struck by two ruinous earthquakes in 1542 and 1693, and a plague in 1729. | WIKI |
| [21] To the west of the city is a Commonwealth War Graves cemetery where about 1,000 men are buried. | WIKI |
| Snow is infrequent; the last heavy snowfall in the city occurred in December 2014. | WIKI |
| The Temple of Olympian Zeus, about 3 kilometres (2 miles) outside the city, built around the 6th century BC. | WIKI |
| The Castle of Euryalos, built 9 kilometres (6 miles) outside the city by Dionysius the Elder and which was one of the most powerful fortresses of ancient times. | WIKI |
| The historic town of ancient Syracuse consists of Ortygia, the historic centre of the city, and today an island that has been inhabited for around 3000 years, and the archaeological area of the Neapolis. | UNESCO |
| Syracuse, the second Greek colony in Sicily was founded by the Corinthians in 743 A.D and described by Cicero as xe2x80x98the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of allxe2x80x99. | UNESCO |
| Many structures attest to the continuing development of the city through Roman times, from the Byzantines to the Bourbons, interspersed with the Arabo-Muslims, the Normans, Frederick II of the Hohenstaufen dynasty (1197xe2x80x931250), the Aragons and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. | UNESCO |
| The authenticity of Syracuse is evident in many of the cityxe2x80x99s structures, which retain the same characteristics as during the late Hellenistic period, while other buildings clearly reflect the history of successive cultures over three millennia. | UNESCO |