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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Corleonesi is
the name given to a faction within the Sicilian Mafia that dominated
Cosa Nostra in the 1980s and the 1990s. It was called the Corleonesi
because its most important leaders came from the town of Corleone, first
Luciano Leggio and later Totò Riina, Bernardo Provenzano and Leoluca
Bagarella, Riina's brother-in-law. The Corleonesi coalition managed to
take over the Sicilian Mafia Commission and imposed a quasi-dictatorship
over Cosa Nostra, waging war against rival factions (also known as the
Second Mafia War) from 1978-1983. The more established Mafia factions in
the city of Palermo grossly underestimated the mafiosi from Corleone and
often referred to the Corleonesi as i viddani - "the peasants".
