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Finally the city destroyed.
LOKRI EPIZEFIRIOI (Ancient city) ITALY
Since Locri Epizephyrii, in the south of Italy, claimed to be a colony
from Naryx, in Greece, we find the town of Locri called Narycia by the poets,
and the pitch of Bruttium was also named Narycia (...)
This extract is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
KROTON (Ancient city) CALABRIA
The only ones living beyond these to help Hellas in its danger were the Crotonians, with one ship. Its captain was Phayllus, three times victor in the Pythian games. The Crotonians are Achaeans by birth.
Achaeans settled at Sybaris jointly with Troezenians, and afterwards the Achaeans having become more numerous expelled the Troezenians. (The Troezenian population when expelled were received at Croton, which made war on Sybaris and destroyed it 510 B.C.).
RIGION (Ancient city) CALABRIA
The inhabitants of Rhegium, who were colonists of Chalcis (Diodorus Siculus, Library: book 14, chapter 40, section 1).
Messenians of Naupactus, being expelled by Lacedaemonians, go to Sicily and Rhegium
PETELIA (Ancient city) CALABRIA
Himilco. An officer in the army of Hannibal, who reduced the town of Petelia in Bruttium (B. C. 216), after a siege of several months' duration, during which the inhabitants had suffered the greatest extremities of famine. (Liv. xxiii. 20, 30.) This conquest is ascribed by Appian (Annib. 29) to Hanno, who, in fact, held the chief command in Bruttium at this time.
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