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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 132. Chapters: American Mafia, History of the Sicilian Mafia, Mafias in fiction, Christian Democracy, Enrico Mattei, Banco Ambrosiano, Pentito, Sicilian Mafia Commission, Phantom of Inferno, Reborn!, Baccano!, Mafia II, Italian American Mafia crime families, Albanian mafia, Gungrave, Antimafia Commission, The Commission, Black Lagoon, Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Salvatore Giuliano, Maxi Trial, List of victims of the Sicilian Mafia, Second Mafia War, Portella della Ginestra massacre, 1960s Sicilian Mafia trials, List of Sicilian Mafiosi by city, Pizza Connection Trial, Cesare Mori, Angelo La Barbera, Golpe Borghese, Leonardo Sciascia, Operation Old Bridge, Viale Lazio massacre, Article 41-bis prison regime, Pino Puglisi, Valachi hearings, Grand Hotel des Palmes Mafia meeting 1957, Ciaculli massacre, Israeli mafia, Gungrave: Overdose, Omerta, Silvio Milazzo, Rita Atria, Pizzo, Gaspare Pisciotta, Carmine Pecorelli, Leopoldo Franchetti, Soldato, Sicilian Center of Documentation, Zips, Sack of Palermo, Glossary of Mafia-related words, Garduna, Pizzino, Beati Paoli, Black Hand, Niccolo Turrisi Colonna, Empire Bay, Stidda, Lupara, Vincenzo Pentangeli, Chromosome 6, Collaborations between the United States government and Italian Mafia, Pizzolungo massacre, Mandamento, Vendicatori, Mafia Monograph. Excerpt: The Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra) is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct. Each group, known as a "family," "clan," or "cosca," claims sovereignty over a territory in which it operates its rackets - usually a town or village or a neighbourhood (borgata) of a larger city. The American Mafia arose from offshoots of the Mafia that emerged in the United States during the late nineteenth...