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Comiso
Italy, officially the Italian Republic or Repubblica Italiana, is a Southern European country comprising of the Po River valley, the Italian Peninsula and the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. It is shaped like a boot and for this reason Italians commonly call it lo Stivale, the boot or, due to its prevalent peninsular geographical nature, la Penisola, the Peninsula.
Comiso is an Italian municipality in the Province of Ragusa in Sicily. Comiso consists of three boroughs Comiso, Pedalino, and Quaglio. As of December 31, 2004 the total population of Comiso was 29,402. It lies some 22 kilometer west of Ragusa in the South of Sicily. The main productive sectors are agriculture mainly wine and vegetables and trades, including smithery, cabinet making and marble work. The neighboring communities are Chiaramonte Gulfi, Ragusa and Vittoria.
In ancient times, Comiso was a Greek colony. The town was established from Syracuse around 642 BC, Before Crist and in 212 BC it was destroyed by the Romans. Under the Byzantinesa new borough began to grow around the monasteries of St. Nicolo and Saint Blaise, expanding further under the later Norman and Aragonese domination of Sicily. It was later a fief of the Chiaromonte, Cabrera and Naselli families the latter, counts of the city from 1571, boosted the economy of the city and built new district outside the ancient walls.
Comiso was devastated by an earthquake in 1693 and rebuilt on the same spot as the old ruins in the Sicilian Baroque style. The United States Air Force deployed GLCM, Ground Launched cruise missiles to Comiso Air Base in June 1983. The missiles were eventually dismantled after the Intermediate-Range and Short-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed by the former Soviet Union and the United States on 8 December 1987. The last 16 GLCMs left Comiso Air Base in 1991. Comiso is one of Italy’s most popular destinations and is well known for the quantity of cultural related attractions and monuments that the city has embraced.
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