Zancle

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Zancle was an ancient Greek city in Sicily, known later as Messana (modern Messina), and was one of the key colonies of Magna Graecia.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek city
polis
archaeologicalRemainsAt Messina area
belongsToCategory Ancient Greek cities in Sicily
Former populated places in Italy
conflictedWith indigenous Sicel populations
culture Ancient Greek
economyBasedOn agriculture
maritime trade
ethnicGroup Chalcidian Greeks
foundationPeriod 8th century BC
foundedBy Greek colonists
settlers from Chalcis
settlers from Euboea
hadColonialRelationsWith Rhegion
hadHarbor important commercial port
hadPoliticalForm oligarchy
tyranny
influenced urban development of Messana
language Ancient Greek
laterKnownAs Messana
locatedIn Italy
Magna Graecia
Mediterranean region
Sicily
locatedOn Strait of Messina
northeastern coast of Sicily
modernCountry Italy
modernLocation Messina
modernRegion Sicily
nameEtymology possibly derived from a word meaning "sickle"
partOf Greek colonial network in the western Mediterranean
Greek world
region Magna Graecia
religion ancient Greek polytheism
renamedTo Messana
strategicImportance control of sea routes between Italy and Sicily
timePeriod Archaic Greece
Classical Greece
topography harbor shaped like a sickle
wasConqueredBy Anaxilas of Rhegion
Samians
wasDestroyedOrTransformed absorbed into Messana
wasImportantFor Greek expansion in western Mediterranean
wasRenamedBy Anaxilas of Rhegion

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