The Dittaino (

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: Chrysas) is a river of central

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which rises in the Heraean Mountains, not far from the modern towns of Gangi and

Enna Enna ( or ; grc, Ἔννα; la, Henna, less frequently ), known from the Middle Ages until 1926 as Castrogiovanni ( scn, Castrugiuvanni ), is a city and located roughly at the center of Sicily, southern Italy, in the province of Enna, towering ...

. It is long. After flowing through the territory of Assorus, where its tutelary divinity was worshipped with peculiar honors during the Greek civilization, and afterwards through that of

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, it joins the Simeto in the plain of

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, about from its mouth.

Hydronym

The modern name is the Sicilian version of Arab vocable ''Wādī al-tīn'', namely "The River of Sandstone".

References

* Rivers of Italy Rivers of Sicily Rivers of the Province of Enna Rivers of the Province of Catania {{Italy-river-stub