CORLEONE

city, Palermo provincia, western Sicily, Italy. The name Qurliyun is found in Arab sources of the 9th century AD; the city was probably an earlier Byzantine foundation. Made a military centre by the Hohenstaufen rulers of Sicily from the 10th century, it later passed under Spanish rule. Corleone took an active part in the anti-Bourbon revolutions of 1820 and 1848 and rallied to Giuseppi Garibaldi in 1861, when Sicily became part of the kingdom of Italy. Economically, Corleone is the centre of an agricultural and pastoral area and has food-processing plants. Pop. (1989 est.) mun., 11,554.