Girgenti

Girgenti, a town of Sicily, built on an eminence overlooking the sea, near the site of the ancient Agrigentum (q.v.), and situated on the south coast, 84 miles by rail SSE. of Palermo. The town is the seat of a bishop and of the prefect and other officials of the province, and has a trade in grain, oil, fruit, sulphur, sumach, salt, and fish. Its port is Porto Empedocle. Pop. 20,000. The province, with an area of 1172 sq. m., has a pop. (1895) 345,700.