| Provincia di Siracusa | |
|---|---|
| Province of Italy | |
| 1865–2015 | |
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 Map highlighting the location of the province of Syracuse in Italy | |
| Capital | Syracuse |
| Area | |
• 2005 | 2,124.13 km2 (820.13 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• 2005 | 398,178 |
| History | |
• Established | 1865 |
• Disestablished | 4 August 2015 |
| Today part of | Free 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]
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Città metropolitane-legge 4 agosto 2015 n 15" (PDF) (in Italian).