Etienne
ST., a town of southern France, in the department of the Loire, on the Furens, 32 miles S. W. of Lyons.
The principal buildings and institutions in the province of Catania, Sicily; height, 10,874 feet. It rises immediately from the sea, has a circumference of more than 100 miles, and dominates the whole N. E. of Sicily, having a number of towns and villages on its lower slopes.
The top is covered with perpetual snow; midway down is the woody or forest region; at the foot is a region of orchards, vineyards, olive groves, etc. A more or less distinct margin of cliff separates the ETNA ETRURIA mountain proper from the surrounding ETRURIA, the name anciently given plain; and the whole mass seems formed of a series of superimposed mountains, the terminal volcano being surrounded by a number of cones, all of volcanic origin, and nearly 100 of which are of considerable size. The eruptions of Etna have been numerous, and many of them destructive. That of 1169 overwhelmed Catania and buried 15,000 persons in the ruins. In 1669 the lava spread over the country for 40 days, and 10,000 persons are estimated to have perished. In 1693 there was an earthquake during the eruption, when 60,000 lives were lost. Among more recent eruptions are those of 1852, 1865, 1874, 1879, 1886, 1892, 1909, and 1911.