Termini

Termini, a scaport on the north coast of Sicily, 23 miles ESE. of Palermo by rail. Pop. 22,733. The industries are tinning and sardine fishing. The ancient Thermæ Himerenses here was founded by the Carthaginians in 408 B.C., after the destruction of the Greek city of Himera. Under the Roman rule it flourished through its baths. Of these some fragments still exist, as well as of a theatre, an aqueduct, &c.