Sicilian refers to the Italian island of
Sicily
Sicily (Italian language, Italian and ), officially the Sicilian Region (), is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy, regions of Italy. With 4. ...
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Sicilian can also refer to:
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Sicilian language
Sicilian (, ; ) is a Romance languages, Romance language that is spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands.
It belongs to the broader Extreme Southern Italian language group (in Italian ).
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, a Romance language spoken on the island of Sicily, its satellite islands, and southern Calabria
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Sicilians
Sicilians () are a European ethnographic group who are indigenous to Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, as well as the largest and most populous of the autonomous regions of Italy.
History
The Sicilian people are indigenous to ...
, people from or with origins in Sicily
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Sicilian Defence
The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves:
:1. e4 c5
The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4. The opening 1.d4 is a statistically more successful opening for Whi ...
, a chess opening
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The Sicilian
''The Sicilian'' is a novel by American author Mario Puzo. Published in 1984 by Random House, Random House Publishing Group (), it is based on the life of Sicilians, Sicilian Banditry, bandit Salvatore Giuliano. It is set in the same universe ...
'', a 1984 novel by Mario Puzo
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''The Sicilian'' (film), a 1987 action film based on the novel
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Caecilian
Caecilians (; ) are a group of limbless, vermiform (worm-shaped) or serpentine (snake-shaped) amphibians with small or sometimes nonexistent eyes. They mostly live hidden in soil or in streambeds, and this cryptic lifestyle renders caecilians ...
, an order of amphibians, occasionally pronounced ''Sicilian''
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Sicily (disambiguation)
Sicily is a region of Italy comprising the island of the same name.
Sicily or may also refer to:
History
* Sicilia (Roman province)
* Sicily (theme), the Byzantine province
* The Emirate of Sicily, a 10th-century Islamic state
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Siciliano (disambiguation)
Siciliano may refer to:
*Siciliana or siciliano (also known as sicilienne or ciciliano), a musical style or genre
* Siciliano (surname), surname
* Siciliano indigeno, breed of horse from Sicily
* Nero Siciliano, breed of domestic pig from of Sicil ...
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