Pantelleria
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Pantelleria, known in ancient times as Cossyra or Cossura, is an island and comune in the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, 106 kilometres southwest of Sicily and 68 km east of the Tunisian c
View of Pantelleria
3rd century B.C. Cossura bronze coin showing a portrait of Isis with Punic legend (23 mm, 12.18 g)
One of the sesi (burial tombs) on Pantelleria.
Volcanic rocks in Pantelleria
Pantesco dialect
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Pantesco is the Sicilian dialect of the island of Pantelleria, between Sicily and Tunisia. It is notable among Romance varieties for an unusually high degree of influence from Arabic, originating in a
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…are present, such as hot springs and fumaroles. The highest peak, the Montagna Grande, reaches 836 m (2,743 ft) above sea level. The islanders speak Pantesco, a dialect of Sicilian influenced by Arabic. Specchio di Venere lake is a soda lake…
Several Arabic loanwords were used only as commands for, or in reference to, donkeys. These include árfa, bbarrà, harráçi and ššèkku.