Termini Imerese

Fishing port and resort in northern Sicily, on the Tyrrhenian coast, 335 km/22 m southeast of Palermo; population (1990 est) 27,000. There is a trade in agricultural produce, olive oil, and fish. It has Roman remains, a 16th-century cathedral, and there are hot mineral springs nearby.

The Greek city of Himera (founded 648 BC) was destroyed in 408 BC by the Carthaginians, who built a new town on the opposite bank of the San Leonardo River. Agathocles, tyrant of Syracuse 317–289 BC, was born here in 361 BC.