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Hippana
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🏛️ Ancient ruins

Hippana

Ancient city · Italy

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
37.703, 13.436
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Why it was abandoned

🏛️ Ancient ruins

Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Palermo, Sicily, Italy

History

Hippana or Hyppana, was an ancient town of Sicily. It sat astride the main road from Panormus to Agrigentum upon Monte dei Cavalli, in the modern comune of Prizzi. It is an important archaeological site in situated in a central position between the Tyrrhenian coast and the Mediterranean Sea, halfway between Palermo and Agrigentum.

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