Sicily
- Ancient name
- Sicilia
- Modern name
- Sicily
- Modern country
- Italy
- Coordinates
- 37.54, 14.09
Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, was controlled in the later Middle Ages by the Aragonese, who had claimed it in 1282 during the War of the Sicilian Vespers and finally incorporated it into the Crown of Aragon in 1409. Its city of Messina was a major port. See also Sardinia, Mallorca.
The toponym Sicily appears in La Sfera in the following places:
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Map of the location P127
Variant spellings of Sicily in Sfera manuscripts
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Sicily.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, February 10, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/sicily/.