Province of Syracuse

Provincia di Siracusa
Province of Italy
1865–2015
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Map highlighting the location of the province of Syracuse in Italy
CapitalSyracuse
Area 
• 2005
2,124.13 km2 (820.13 sq mi)
Population 
• 2005
398,178
History 
• Established
1865
• Disestablished
4 August 2015
Today part ofFree municipal consortium of Syracuse

The province of Syracuse (Italian: provincia di Siracusa; Sicilian: pruvincia di Sarausa) was a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily, Italy. Its capital was the city of Syracuse, a town established by Greek colonists arriving from Corinth in the 8th century BC.[1] It had an area of 2,109 square kilometres (814 sq mi) and a total population of 403,985 (2016). Syracuse had 8% of the Sicilian population and 8.2% of Sicily's area.

Following the suppression of the Sicilian provinces, it was replaced in August 2015 by the free municipal consortium of Syracuse (Italian: libero consorzio comunale di Siracusa).[2]

  1. ^ Ring, Trudy; Salkin, Robert M.; Boda, Sharon La (1995). International Dictionary of Historic Places: Southern Europe. Taylor & Francis. p. 674. ISBN 978-1-884964-02-2.
  2. ^ "Città metropolitane-legge 4 agosto 2015 n 15" (PDF) (in Italian).