Gangi, Sicily Gangi, Sicily Gangi is a "comune" (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Palermo in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo. Gangi borders the following municipalities: Alimena, Blufi, Bompietro, Calascibetta, Enna, Geraci Siculo, Nicosia, Petralia Soprana, Sperlinga. The town straddles the Madonie mountains of central Sicily. Gangi's origins have been connected to the ancient Greek city of "Engyon", or "Herbita", but this theory remains unconfirmed. Traces of Roman presence are instead testified by archaeological excavations under the Abbey of Gangivecchio ("Old Gangi").<But according to Glenn Storey, Francesca Spatafora and other archeologists and a consolidated historiography, Engio was near
Kingdom of Sicily Succession. The kingdom was a reward to the Savoyards, who were thus elevated to royal rank. The new king, Victor Amadeus II, travelled to Sicily in 1713 and remained a year before returning to his mainland capital, Turin, where his son the Prince of Piedmont had been acting as regent. In Spain the results of the war had not been truly accepted, and the War of the Quadruple Alliance was the result. Sicily was occupied by Spain in 1718. When it became evident that Savoy had not the strength to defend as remote a country as Sicily, Austria stepped in