ADRANUM, or HADRANUM, (anc. geog.), now Adernæ; a town of Sicily, built by the elder Dionysius,
at the foot of mount Ætna, (Diodorus Siculus), four hundred years before Christ. So called from the temple of Adranus, or Hadranus, a god much worshipped by the Sicilians; with a river of the same name, (Stephanus,) now Fiume d'Adrano. The inhabitants, Hadranitani, and Adranite.