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Force
of Agrò is ancient earth that to the beginning of the century boasted a
population of 2,600 inhabitants and in the 1681 it counted 3,000 spirits
already. Its origin could be fenicia, if it is true that in the zone to
valley, next to the gravel bed of the torrent, called city Phoinix existed
one, commercial port of the fenici. Then the Greeks came, between the VIII
and V the century a.C. and, therefore, the Roman (135 a.C.) that they transformed
the Akron Greek (from which then Agrò) in Vicum Agrillae from which Fortilicium
Agrillae. For three centuries this earth came also dominated from the bizantini
that they imposed the ritual cult Greek-oriental, then from the Arabs, than
with their raids they forced people of navy to find shelter in inner zones,
hidden. |
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The
churches of :
SS. Apostoli Pietro and
Paolo D'Agrò
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They
were the Arabs who destroyed the first monastery of Agrò, than, second the
studies of prof. the Giuseppe Lombardo and the archaeological diggings of
years Eighty, did not rise where is today, but on the skillful side of the
torrent, in territory of Force of Agrò, to Scifi. The population, while,
had been moved in contrada Casale, where today they remain the rests of
the church of S. Michele. In year 1091 the Normans succeeded in to sweep
the Arabs, constructed the castle of Force of Agrò on the ruins, probably,
of the ancient one fortilizio, and concurred the rebuilding of the monastero
that, for choice of the monks, came on the left side, today in territory
of Casalvecchio. In the diploma of Ruggero II it is spoken for before the
time of " Vicum Agrillae ", but it is described like a village
situated to the margins of the river of Agrò and not on the hill where the
Force of Agrò is placed odierna. The population, but, little little, was
moved towards the hill and in contrada Magghia, in a protect level area
from the Fortress, it began to grow the new city, the " Earth of Agrò
", of which mention in a diploma of King Guglielmo II of the 1168 is
made. Thanks to the castle the new takeover taken the name of " Fortilicium
Agrillae " and, following all the distance through the centuries, are
joint to of to-day the Force of Agrò. To the time, the territory comprised
from the current Saint Teresa di Riva until Gallodoro. It was governed from
the " University of Agrò " and in the 1282 when it burst the revolt
of the Vespro against the angioini I manipulate of forzesi supported the
Aragoneses, as it is found from a diploma of Peter III of Aragon. Between
century XIV and XV the country began to take the shape current losing but
the prerogatives that had been granted to them from the king Norman in the
1674, when will draw up to favour of Spain against the French. |
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The
winners delivered it to Savoca, the monastero of the SS. Peter and Paul
plundered and private of its ancient books. In the 800 English succeeded
in to occupy the norman castle in order to control the French ships of Napoleone,
king Ferdinand abolish the feudalism, fall the sovereignty of Savoca.
Carbonari motions (1820 burst), come constructed street Messina-Catania
(1828), arrive Garibaldi (1860), they suppress the orders and the ecclesiastical
assets pass to the State (a law of the 1866, regarding " abolition
of the religious corporations") have allowed to the State to take possession
of the ecclesiastical assets. |
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monks Franciscan of S. Caterina and the those of Sant' Augustin they have
been forced to leave their convents) .
The new century sees the crisis agrarian, begins the emigration, the earthquake
of 1908 leaves also Force of Agrò its sign, bursts the first world war,
is the fascismo, the second world war, the Republic, the autonomy of S.
Alessio is the last blow to ancient the velleity of Force of Agrò. |
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