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	Archdiocese of Messina
		The neighbouring seas are rich in coral, molluscs, and fish; and from the mountains are obtained calcic sulphate, alabaster, sulphates of argentiferous lead, antimony, iron, and copper.
		Messina is said to have been founded by some pirates from Cumæ, a very ancient Greek colony, and to have received from its founders the name of Zancle (sickle) on account of the semicircular shape of the port.
		Anaxilas, tyrant of Rhegium, also a Messenian colony, drove the Samians from Zancle, took the town, and called it Messana (the a of the Doric dialect, which becomes n in the Ionic coming later to be pronounced as English e).
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/messina,archdiocese_of.html (1126 words)

	Detail Page
		Located on a crescent-shaped peninsula enclosing a fine harbor, Zancle (now the modern Sicilian city of Messina), was founded ca.
		Zancle's original setters were of the Ionian-Greek ethnic group, but ca.
		Anaxilas, whose ancestral home was Messenia, then renamed Zancle as Messana (in the Doric dialect) or Messene (in Ionic form).
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0528 (182 words)

	Messina - LoveToKnow 1911
		harbour, a circular basin open on the north only, formed by a strip of land curving round like a sickle, from which it took its original name, Zancle KAov, or rather (W'yKXov, the Sicilian equivalent of the Greek S (..Eiravov, l according to Thucydides, vi.
		About 488 B.C. Anaxilas and the Samians occupied Zancle in the absence of Skythes, and it was then that the name was changed to Messene, as the existence of coins of the Samian type, bearing the new name, proves.
		Messina fell into the hands of the Carthaginians during their wars with Dionysius the elder of Syracuse (397 B.C.).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Messina (1232 words)

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		Zancle wurde zuerst, kein Zweifel auf dem Aufstellungsort einer früheren Regelung, von den Piraten von Cumae gegründet und wieder vereinbart regelmäßig, nach einem unbekannten Abstand, von den Siedleren von Cumae unter Perieres, und von Chalcis unter Crataemenes, im ersten Viertel des 8.
		Jahrhunderts B.C. Mylae muß als Outpost bald danach besetzt worden sein sehr, aber die erste regelmäßige Kolonie von Zancle war Himera, gegründet in 648 B.C. Nach der Sicherung von Miletus durch die Perser in 494 B.C. Skythes, König von Zancle, lud das Ionians ein, um am Kakipflaumenbaum zu kommen und zu vereinbaren?
		In 426 die Athenians gewonnen dem Bündnis von Zancle, aber bald wieder verloren ihm und es in 415 erreichen nicht gekonnt.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=de&content_id=44775 (1279 words)

	Sicily
		Naxos was founded in 734 B. by settlers from Chalcis, also responsible for the foundation of Leontini (around 729), Zancle (between 750 and 725) and Catania.
		Syracuse was a colony of Corinth established in 733, while a little further north, settlers from Megaris founded a city to which they gave the same name as their mother city.
		Meanwhile, Phoenicians from Carthage were settling the western part of Sicily, which eventually led to the battle of Himera in 480, won by Theron, tyrant of Acragas, allied to Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse, over the Carthaginian general Amilcar.
	plato-dialogues.org /tools/loc/sicily.htm (456 words)

	Herodotus: Book 6: Erato: 20
		The Samians as they made their way towards Sicily reached Locroi Epizephyroi, and at the same time the people of Zancle, both themselves and their king, whose name was Skythes, were encamped about a city of the Sikelians, desiring to conquer it.
		Perceiving these things, Anaxilaos the despot of Rhegion, being then at variance with those of Zancle, communicated with the Samians and persuaded them that they ought to leave the Fair Strand alone, to which they were sailing, and take possession of Zancle instead, since it was left now without men to defend it.
		The Samians accordingly did as he said and took possession of Zancle; and upon this the men of Zancle, being informed that their city was possessed by an enemy, set out to rescue it, and invited Hippocrates the despot of Gela to help them, for he was their ally.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/hh/hh6020.htm (1594 words)

	The History of the Peloponnesian War eBook
		Near one hundred and eight years after the foundation of Gela, the Geloans founded Acragas (Agrigentum), so called from the river of that name, and made Aristonous and Pystilus their founders; giving their own institutions to the colony.
		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.
		Himera was founded from Zancle by Euclides, Simus, and Sacon, most of those who went to the colony being Chalcidians; though they were joined by some exiles from Syracuse, defeated in a civil war, called the Myletidae.
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	Termini Imerese, Himera, Caccamo - Best of Sicily
		The story of Imera is the only historically noteworthy episode that can be linked to the ancient history of Termini Imerese.
		Imera was founded in 678 BC by Greek colonists from Zancle (Sickle), modern Messina.
		Zancle itself had been founded in the previous century by Greek colonists.
	www.bestofsicily.com /termini.htm (1325 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 525 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		with the Samians at Zancle, afterwards called Messene.
		§ 4, note q.) thinks that this Cadmus was the son of the Scythes, tyrant of Zancle, who was driven out by the Samians (b.
		If this conjecture is correct, Cadmus probably resigned the tyranny of Cos through desire of returning to his native town, Zancle.
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		Zancle S.I. è una società per la fornitura di servizi informatici ad aziende e studi professionali a prezzi altamente concorrenziali, operante principalmente nel campo dell'editoria su Internet, con la realizzazione di siti pubblicitari e sistemi per E-commerce.
		Zancle S.I. si prefigge come obiettivo il mettere a disposizione della propria Clientela le migliori soluzioni informatiche nei campi commerciali, pubblicitari e dell'Office Automation con particolare riguardo all'impatto economico sull'azienda.
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	web.tiscali.it /andyasi/home.htm (199 words)

	Thucydides-Passages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Exactly a hundred and eight years after their own foundation the inhabitants of Gela founded Agrigentum (Acragas), which they named from the river Acragas; they appointed Aristonous and Pystilus founders of the place, and gave to it their own institutions.
		(12) Zanclè was originally colonised by pirates who came from Cymè, the Chalcidian city in Opicia; these were followed by a large body of colonists from Chalcis and the rest of Euboea, who shared in the allotment of the soil.
		Zanclè was the original name of the place, a name given by the Sicels because the site was in shape like a sickle, for which the Sicel word is zanclon.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/thucydides/thucydides-passages.php?pleaseget=6.4-8 (1245 words)

	Metamorphoses Tales by Ovid, part 6 - The Gold Scales
		Zancle was left behind as well, and the walls of Rhegium opposite, and the dangerous strait, hemmed in between twin coastlines, that marks the boundary between Sicily and Italian Ausonia.
		Wrapping herself in a dusky cloak, she made her way from the palace, through the crowd of fawning beasts, and sought out Rhegium opposite Zancle's cliffs, travelling over the seething tidal waters, as if she trod on solid ground, crossing dry-footed over the surface of the sea.
		Zancle also is said to have been joined to Italy, till the waves washed away the boundary, and the deep sea pushed back the land.
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	History of Herodotus by Herodotus
		The Samians on their voyage reached the country of the Epizephyrian Locrians, at a time when the Zanclaeans and their king Scythas were engaged in the siege of a Sicilian town which they hoped to take.
		The Samians followed this counsel and possessed themselves of the town; which the Zanclaeans no sooner heard than they hurried to the rescue, calling to their aid Hippocrates, tyrant of Gela, who was one of their allies.
		Darius thought him the most upright of all the Greeks to whom he afforded a refuge; for with the king's leave he paid a visit to Sicily, and thence returned back to Persia, where he lived in great comfort, and died by a natural death at an advanced age.
	www.4literature.net /Herodotus/History_of_Herodotus/117.html (1219 words)

	town
		On the shores of the Straits, Greeks from Khalis in Euboea, led by Periere and Cratemene, founded Zancle, one of the first western colonies (8th century B.C.).
		The original population of Zancle was however conquered by other peoples from Greek Messenia, which explains why the name of the city was changed into Messene (in the 5th century B.C.).
		This name remained until the city was occupied by the Mamertines, mercenaries from Campania in the pay of Syracuse (3rd century B.C.).
	www.scillaecariddi.com /english/town.htm (591 words)

	Xenophanes
		Xenophanes of Colophon, the reputed founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy, is supposed to have been born in the third or fourth decade of the 6th century BC.
		An exile from his Ionian home, he resided for a time in Sicily, at Zancle and at Catana, and afterwards established himself in southern Italy, at Elea, a Phocaean colony founded in the sixty-first Olympiad (536-533).
		In one of the extant fragments he speaks of himself as having begun his wanderings sixty-seven years before, when he was twenty-five years of age, so that he was not less than ninety-two when he died.
	www.nndb.com /people/896/000087635 (1123 words)

	Herodotus - The Histories - Page 915
		The Samians on their voyage reached the country of the Epizephryian Locrians, at a time when the Zanclaeans and their king Scythas were engaged in the siege of a Sicilian town which they hoped to take.
		Anaxilaüs, tyrant of Rhegium, who was on ill terms with the Zanclaeans, knowing how matters stood, made application to the Samians, and persuaded them to give up the thought of Calé-Acté, the place to which they were bound, and to seize Zanclé itself, which was left without men.
		The reward of his treachery was to be one-half of the goods and chattels, including slaves, which the town contained, and all that he could find in the open country.
	www.galileolibrary.com /ebooks/eu04/herodotus_page_915.htm (279 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sicily : History, Italy (Italian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Phoenicians later settled on the west coast, notably at Panormus (now Palermo); Carthaginians founded Lilybaeum and Drepanum (now Trapani); and on the east and southeast coasts Greeks founded (8th–6th cent.
		B.C.) such cities as Syracuse, Catania, Zancle (now Messina), Gela, and Selinus and settled in older towns like Segesta.
		The Greek cities flourished and in turn founded such cities as Acragas (now Agrigento) and Himera.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Sicily-history.html (1033 words)

	Ancient coins of Sicily
		The standard here is certainly not (with one possible exception) the Aeginetic but the Euboïc-Attic, which was soon universally adopted throughout the island, even by those Chalcidian colonies which had begun to coin on the supposed Aeginetic standard.
		The definite change to the Attic standard took place at Naxus some time after B.C. 498, at Zancle between B.C. 493 and 480, and at Himera in B.C. The original Sikel and Sicanian population of Sicily possessed, how- ever, a standard of their own, based on the pound or litra of bronze.
		Himera (Termini), on the north coast of Sicily, was an ancient Chalcidic colony from Zancle, founded in the middle of the seventh century B.C. Its coinage has been studied by Gabrici, Topogr.
	snible.org /coins/hn/sicily.html (8974 words)

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		One of the smaller Greek centers along the tirreniche coasts: founded from the Calcidesi di Zancle (Messina puts into effect them) and then probably last in orbit of Locri and the Medma neighbor, Matauros decayed and scomparve before the roman conquest.
		The archaeological testimonies of Matauros regard the necropoli archaic in contrada Stone (VII and VI century a.C.) that it has supplied many data on the commerce and the culture of this city.
		a.C. show luminosity relationships with the city-mother Zancle (Messina): several tombe to inumazione and incinerazione of the second half of VI century a.C. they contained vases to fl figures, sayings "calcidesi", a lot probably produced in the Reggio neighbor, which represent the most remarkable production of vases figured I arched to us in Magna Greece.
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	Welcome to Sicily Bella - About the province of Messina
		Founded as Zancle in the second half of the 8th century BC.
		Located on the edge of town, the castle was one of the first Norman buildings erected in Sicily.
		Milazzo itself was founded as Mylae by Greeks from Zancle (Messina) in 716 BC.
	www.sicilybella.com /about_messina.html (3479 words)

	Il blog della riviera jonica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Di giugioni (del 19/09/2005 @ 11:37:09, in L'origine di Zancle, linkato 134 volte)
		Zancle Le prime frequentazioni, come attestano vari ritrovamenti sul territorio, risalgono all'età del bronzo, ma è solo con l'arrivo dei greci (740 ca.) che la città assume quel ruolo marinaro segue...
		Sulla fondazione di Zancle (Messina) siamo informati dal grande storico greco Tucidide che così si esprime: “ Zancle inizialmente fu fondata da predoni giunti da Cuma, città calcidiese nel territ segue...
	www.zancle.it /dblog/storico.asp?s=L'origine+di+Zancle (120 words)

	Driver In Italy
		Messina is the third largest city of Sicily and the capital of the province which bears its name, founded by Greek colonists in the 8th century BC, it was originally called Zancle (scythe) because of the shape of its natural harbor.
		On this leisurely excursion you will depart the pier area and be lead through the heart of town with its wide avenues, Piazza Municipio, Via Garibaldi and Piazza Cairoli.
		Experience the -great living clock- as it is referred to by locals, for the time piece features statues representing historical, religious and astronomical figures that become animated on the hour.
	www.driverinitaly.com /tours.asp?uid=861&p=27 (133 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Reggio di Calabria
		About the close of the sixth century B.C., Alcidamas became tyrant of the city, and his son Anaxilas planned to obtain control of all Graecia Magna, but was unsuccessful.
		He was more fortunate in his attack on Zancle in Sicily, which he named Messana (Messina).
		His sons were expelled (461) from the city, which again became a republic.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12717a.htm (680 words)

	Silver ? stater of Zancle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Coins were first issued by the Greek cities in Sicily from around 525 BC.
		One of these was the city of Zancle, situated at the modern town of Messina, on the strait between the town and the toe of Italy.
		Zankle is the Greek word for 'sickle', and the city took its name from the distinctive shape of its harbour.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ4392 (195 words)

	Find in a Library: Rhégion et Zancle; histoire, commerce et civilisation des cités chalcidiennes du détroit de ...
		Find in a Library: Rhégion et Zancle; histoire, commerce et civilisation des cités chalcidiennes du détroit de Messine.
		Rhégion et Zancle; histoire, commerce et civilisation des cités chalcidiennes du détroit de Messine.
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	Pausanias : La Messénie Livre 4 : Chapitre 23.
		Il leur répondit que tant qu'il conserverait un souffle de vie, il ferait la guerre aux Lacédémoniens, et qu'il était bien assuré de faire encore beaucoup de mal à Sparte ; et il leur donna pour chefs Gorgos et Manticlos.
		Zancle au commencement avait servi de retraite à des corsaires, qui, trouvant le pays désert, s'étaient bornés à fortifier le port, qui leur servait de place d'armes pour se livrer à la piraterie sur terre et sur mer.
		Cela se passa dans la vingt-neuvième olympiade, en laquelle Chionis de la Laconie fut vainqueur pour la seconde fois.
	www.mythes.net /textes/pausa423.htm (537 words)

	Sicilian Culture: News: Messina In Old Times & Today
		Messina was once a Sicil territory, colonized by the Calcidians in about 730 BC.
		and having the name Zancle, which in Greek means Sickle+ ?, perhaps an allusion to the shape of the peninsula that closes the natural harbour.
		The town later on became for some time a possession of Anaxilas, tyrant of Reggio Calabria.
	www.sicilianculture.com /news/messina.htm (592 words)

	The history of one eroic city
		According to Diodoro the name has had to its foundation from part of Zancleo king of the Sicilian ones.
		Zancle, favorite from its strategic geographic position, to the center of the Mediterranean, very soon was developed founding in its turn other colonies (Mylae and Hymera between the VIII and the VII century a.C.).
		Anassila, tyrant of Reggio, wanting to extend its dominion on both the sides of the Strait, got hold of the city it was appropriated of the city and to the place of the Samis and Milesi exiled Messeni installed you Zancle assumed therefore the name of
	www.torrese.it /english/The_history.htm (2935 words)

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