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Autostrada A19 (Italy)

controlled-access highway

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ789060 ↗
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The Autostrada A19 is an autostrada (Italian for "motorway") 199.6 kilometres (124.0 mi) long in Italy on the island of Sicily that links Palermo to Catania. The motorway from Palermo follows the Tyrrhenian coast and then turns south to go over the Madonie mountains and across the centre of the island to descend into the plain of Catania. It is a part of the E90 and E932 European routes.

The motorway is connected to the A20 Messina-Palermo and is linked to the A18 Catania-Messina by the RA15 (Catania's Ring Road-West).

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 90-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Autostrada, Italy and controlled-access is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Autostrada A19 (Italy)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.