The Kingdom of Sicily was a state that existed in Sicily and the south of the Italian Peninsula plus, for a time, in Northern Africa from its founding by Roger II of Sicily in 1130 until 1816. It was a successor state of the County of Sicily, which had been founded in 1071 during the Norman conquest of the southern peninsula. The island was divided into three regions: Val di Mazara, Val Demone and Val di Noto.
Roger II, the first King of Sicily
The royal mantle
Imperial troops storming Salerno in 1194
Triumph march of Henry VI into Palermo
Sicilian is a Romance language that is spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands.
It belongs to the broader Extreme Southern Italian language group.
A sign in Sicilian at Santo Stefano di Camastra, Messina
Minchia: graffiti in Turin, January 2017