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- proper noun A town and province in
Sicily
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Examples
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I had to go to Caltanissetta, which is on a line that branches off at S. Caterina Xirbi from the main line between Palermo and Catania.
Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889
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SCIOLINO: Well, my mother's family comes from close to Taormina, which is on the coast, and my father's family comes from Caltanissetta, which is in the center.
The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein's Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis 1991
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I was in Caltanissetta one Saturday evening and saw the funeral of two who had been killed in this way that morning.
Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889
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At Caltanissetta they told me that the trains were bringing fugitives from Messina all day and all night.
Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889
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Caltanissetta is a busy town of some 45,000 inhabitants near the middle of the island and about 2000 feet above the sea.
Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889
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But Beppe objected that the nearness of Caltanissetta was no advantage because it induces a feeling of "Well, it doesn't matter; I can always go to town for that," and so they put up with much that they might remedy if they were really beyond the reach of civilisation.
Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889
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I got there from Caltanissetta just before the train from Palermo arrived, and the buffo was looking out of the window.
Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889
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His father went from Caltanissetta to look for him and returned after four days, during which he had searched for his son and suffered mental anguish and physical discomfort.
Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889
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It all seemed to me very healthy and like the accounts one reads and the illustrations one sees of life in a new country, with the advantage that Caltanissetta is only about eight kilometres away.
Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889
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One Saturday, in the street at Caltanissetta, Beppe showed me marks of bullets on the wall.
Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889
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