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History of Sicily Part 1!

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[worldeconomicforumbarbie]

I've been waiting for this. Sicily is never talked about. Just the mafia.

[amysofia]

Please create a part 2! My ancestors were from Sicily and it is so great to be able to learn about them!

[jondoe]

Please as an American with Sicilian blood, blood that has been lost to time, make a documentary hours long. This was exquisitely well done. It is EXTREMELY difficult to find 'good' information about 'Isola del sole' that is not tainted or bias in a particular direction. I can trace my family heritage to roughly the 1800's to Sicily. As a child always I was fascinated with this Island, and the one ting that stands out is hearing the language, compared to main land Italy, sounding very different.
Learn Sicily; You have re ignited an old passion for this beautiful Islands rich in history that I feel in my blood and soul and am truly interested in information that is unbias, as you seem to present it.
THANK YOU 'LEARN SICILIAN', from the heart.

[sutekh]

I miss Sicily so much, along with having the heritage... an island that hardly ever knew its own rulership.

[hunterdanielserpebecker]

Voggliu imparari lu sicilianu pe manteneri mo origini vivo! Grazi assaj!

[direct.skc.]

I love everything about Sicily! Wish I can visit it one day! ❤️❤️❤️

[wyleewaterwitch]

Learning so much! My great great grandfather immigrated to America from Palermo, Sicily. Now I'm obsessed with learning as much as I can about my ancestral land!

[claudemontalbano]

The origin of Elymians is mysterious! Some say that they were coming from the city of Troy and some from south France. Siculi from East Europe gave their name to the island. As regards the Phenicians, they only created some branches on the coast before being chased out by the Greeks

[fobxxl]

My dad was born in Palermo in 1903. Came to America in 1906 through Ellis Island with his mother, father and 4 brothers and sisters.

[robertmaimone]

Thanks for this videos, because my grandparents came from Taramino, but I never met them, because they passed away at a young age.

[robertedrington]

Names of numerous Greek colonies are left out. Only 3 are named and dotted on the map. Another defect of this video, and it is a terrible one, is omission of the Arab occupation, prior to the Norman one. The Arabs brought progress and prosperity.

[eelmohamed]

Death to the French, was a Sicilian chant then, I have no problem with that now: All the love from Libya to our sisters and brothers in Sicily 🇱🇾🇱🇾🇱🇾😀😀

[lizo]

I want to know more about slavery in Sicily

[josemarcano]

Where is the part of the moors in Sicily

[williamlenihan]

Sicily is at the heart of Italy as Piemonte, Veneto, Napoli, Calabria and all the rest is at the core of the identity of ‘Italian-ness’. Sicily is Roman, Greek with its Norman influence. The nature of the early tribes is nearly unknown - the Sicani, Elymian, Siculi. Rome at the center of Italy conquered the lands of the peninsula, first and for obvious reason, and went directly to its nearest island land mass, Sicilia. Sicily has been at the heart of Roman culture and the various conquerers of Rome, Napoli and all the other regions since the inception and idea of an ‘Italy’. All the Roman and medieval scholars and historians have written this. Sicily has a regional identity, yes, as does every region of Italy.
Sicily’s is mediterranean while Piemonte’s is Gaulic, as Lombardia’s was Longobardi, Germanic. Italy, like all of Europe is one of tribes and conquering peoples, acculturations, adaptations. Read what the great modern Italian historian and journalist Luigi Barzini says of Sicily in his landmark book, The Italians.. And of course, it is noteworthy that Dante himself, the instigator of the modern Italian language took his cue outright from the Sicilian School of poets as he began to form his literature in the vulgaris. As well, of the greatest of Italian writers they happen to be from Sicily - Luigi Pirandello, Leonardo Sciascia, Quasimodo, Bufalino, the poet Lucio Piccolo who the Genovese great Eugenio Montale hailed and brought to light. Then there is the great Italian writer from provincia di Catania, Giovanni Verga, whose text is the basis of one the great operas of Pietro Mascagni, ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’. Vincenzo Bellini the great opera composer is iconic in the world of Italian music. And the list goes on and on and on.

[donnafrflorida]

My great paternal great grandparents came from Sicily. I long to see my native land.

[ugurmehmet]

I'm sure there Greek by dna & Italian by culture & language I rest my case.

[michaeldudash]

Sicilian vespers started in 1282, not 1266 like you said in the video- that is when the french came to rule the island

[mickyp]

WHERE IS PART 2 3 4 ECT ???? 🤷🏽‍♂

[CommonSwindler]

Love how you don’t mention Frederick II ONE SINGLE TIME. Imagine making a Sicilian history video and not even touching on him. Crappy video.