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Agrigento (Girgenti in Sicilian) is an Italian town of 59,108 inhabitants, capital of the province of Agrigento in Sicily.
Throughout its history has had four names: º Á ¬ ³ ± Â for the Greeks, Agrigentum for the Romans, Kerkent or Gergent for the Arabs, for the Normans was Girgenti, the official name of the city until 1929, when, during the period Fascist un'italianizzazione name was used that had the city during the Roman Empire, Agrigento.
The site where the city of Akragas then arose, may have been the site of the city of Kamikos, first and most powerful city sicana led by legendary Kokalos, the king who hosted Daedalus after his escape from the labyrinth of Minos on Crete. The legend says that Minos, Daedalus traced to the court of Kokalos, left for Sicania to hand over the brilliant architect and killed, being killed by the king's daughters Sican after being caught with a trap.

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