1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Licodia Eubea

by Thomas Ashby

LICODIA EUBEA, a town of Sicily in the province of Catania, 4 m. W. of Vizzini, which is 39 m. S.W. of Catania by rail. Pop. (1901) 7033. The name Eubea was given to the place in 1872 owing to a false identification with the Greek city of Euboea, a colony of Leontini, founded probably early in the 6th century B.C. and taken by Gelon. The town occupies the site of an unknown Sicel city, the cemeteries of which have been explored. A few vases of the first period were found, but practically all the tombs explored in 1898 belonged to the fourth period (700–500 B.C.) and show the gradual process of Hellenization among the Sicels.

See Römische Mitteilungen, 1898, 305 seq.; Notizie degli scavi, 1902, 219.  (T. As.)