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
Expulsion of the Jews from Sicily Expulsion of the Jews from Sicily The expulsion of the Jews from Sicily began in 1493 when the Spanish Inquisition reached the island of Sicily and its population of more than 30,000 Jews. At the time of expulsion from Sicily, the Jewish community in Sicily dated back to early Roman times, and they were relatively untroubled on the island until the acceptance of the Crown of Aragon in Sicily in 1412. A great number of Jews had reached Sicily after Pompey's 63 BC sacking of Jerusalem. After the enslavement under Roman rule, Jews in Sicily eventually assimilated into society, working