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	Battle of Cape Ecnomus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Due to the amount of ships and crews involved (about 100 rowers and 150 combat troops per ship), this battle was the largest naval battle of the ancient world, and by some definitions the (additional info and facts about largest naval battle in history) largest naval battle in history.
		Following the (additional info and facts about conquest of Agrigentum) conquest of Agrigentum, the Roman Republic decided to build a fleet and threaten Carthage's supremacy in the (The largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia) Mediterranean Sea.
		Rome's initial disadvantage in experience was compensated by the use of (Type genus of the Corvidae: crows and ravens) corvus in the ship's prows.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/battle_of_cape_ecnomus.htm (695 words)

	MSN Encarta - Sicily
		Agrigentum and Gela early became prominent; under the rule of Phalaris, Agrigentum became for a short time probably the most powerful colony in Sicily.
		In 1061 the Normans, under Robert Guiscard and his brother Roger I of Sicily, began the conquest of Sicily, completed in 1091.
		In 1127 Roger II, count of Sicily, was recognized as duke of Apulia and Calabria, and in 1130 he assumed the title of king of Sicily.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564985/Sicily.html (1208 words)

	ipedia.com: Carthage Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		By the beginning of the 5th century BC, Carthage was the commercial center of the region (a position it would retain until overthrown by the Roman Republic).
		During the Siege of Agrigentum, the Carthaginian forces were ravaged by plague and Hannibal Mago died of it.
		Although Hannibal Mago's successor, Himilco, successfully extended the campaign by breaking a Greek siege, capturing the city of Gela, and repeatedly defeating the army of Dionysius, the new Tyrant of Syracuse, he, too, was weakened by the plague and forced to sue for peace before returning to Carthage.
	www.ipedia.com /carthage.html (2374 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: History of Medicine
		The schools of the philosophers likewise exerted no small influence upon development, medical problems being studied by Pythagoras of Samos, Alcmaeon of Crotona, Parmenides of Elea, Heraclitus of Ephesus (sixth century B.C.), Empedocles of Agrigentum, and Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (fifth century B.C.).
		After the expulsion these Nestorians settled in Dschondisapor in 489, and there founded a medical school.
		After the conquest of Persia by the Arabs in 650, Greek culture was held in great esteem, and learned Nestorian, Jewish, and even Indian physicians worked diligently as translators of the Greek writings.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10122a.htm (17358 words)

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