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ELEA (Ancient city) ITALY
At the end of the 5th c. the Carthaginians, resuming their attempt to conquer Sicily, captured Himera and Selinus and marched quickly toward Akragas. After a long siege the city was taken in 406 B.C.; temples and shrines were burnt and sacked, the whole city was razed to the ground. For many decades Akragas lay abandoned; it was rebuilt and repopulated only after 338 B.C. by the new lord of Syracuse, the Corinthian Timoleon, who defeated the Carthaginians and restored peace and democratic governments in the Sicilian towns. Akragas' new colonists, who were joined by the former inhabitants of the city, came from Elea and were led by Megellus and Pheristos.
POSSIDONIA (Ancient city) CAMPANIA
NEAPOLIS (Ancient city) CAMPANIA
It was founded about B.C. 1056 by Aeolian Chalcidians of Cumae,
on the site of an ancient place called Parthenope (Parthenope), after the Siren
of that name. Hence we find the town called Parthenope by Vergil and Ovid. The
year of the foundation of Neapolis is not recorded. It was perhaps called the
"New City," because regarded simply as a new quarter of the neighbouring
city of Cumae. When the town is first mentioned in Roman history it consisted
of two parts, divided from each other by a wall, and called respectively Palaeopolis
and Neapolis.
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
POSSIDONIA (Ancient city) CAMPANIA
Poseidonia was established and fortified by Greek colonists from the city of Sybaris, farther S, in the 7th century B.C. At ca. 400 B.C. the city was conquered by the Lucanians who renamed it Paiston or Paistos.
KYMI (Ancient city) CAMPANIA
Palaeopolis was a city not far from the present site of Neapolis. The two cities formed one community. The original inhabitants came from Cumae; Cumae traced its origin to Chalcis in Euboea. The fleet in which they had sailed from home gave them the mastery of the coastal district which they now occupy, and after landing in the islands of Aenaria and Pithecusae they ventured to transfer their settle- ments to the mainland. (Perseus Project - Livy, History of Rome (ed. Rev. Canon Roberts): book 8, chapter 22 ).
Zancle was originally founded by pirates from Cuma, the Chalcidian town in the country of the Opicans: afterwards, however, large numbers came from Chalcis and the rest of Euboea, and helped to people the place; the founders being Perieres and Crataemenes from Cuma and Chalcis respectively.
NEAPOLIS (Ancient city) CAMPANIA
Palaeopolis was a city not far from the present site of Neapolis The two cities formed one com- munity. The original inhabitants came from Cumae; Cumae traced its origin to Chalcis in Euboea. The fleet in which they had sailed from home gave them the mastery of the coastal district which they now occupy, and after landing in the islands of Aenaria and Pithecusae they ventured to transfer their settle- ments to the mainland. (Perseus Project - Livy, History of Rome (ed. Rev. Canon Roberts): book 8, chapter 22 ).
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Liv.+8.22
PYXOUS (Ancient city) ITALY
Pyxus was peopled with new settlers by Micythus, the ruler of the Messene in Sicily, but all the settlers except a few sailed away again
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