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The first to colonise Southern Italy were the Euboeans, who with
Colonies in the Ionian Sea and Illyria[edit] the move to Pithecusae (on the isle of Ischia), founded a series of
cities in that region. The second city that they founded
The region of the Ionian Sea and that of Illyria were colonized was Cumae, nearly opposite Ischia. The colonists from Cumae
strictly by Corinth. The Corinthians founded important overseas founded Zancle in on Sicily, and nearby on the opposite
colonies on the sea lanes to Southern Italy and the west which coast, Rhegium. Further, the Euboeans founded Naxos, which
succeeded in making them the foremost emporia of the western became the base for the founding of the cities
side of the Mediterranean. Important colonies of Corinth of Leontini, Tauromenion and Catania. In this effort they were
included Leucada, Astacus, Anactoreum, Actium, Ambracia, accompanied by small numbers of Dorians and Ionians; the
and Corcyra. The Corinthians also founded important colonies Athenians had notably refused to take part in the colonisation.[quotes
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Notes[edit] 1. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Nikolaos Papahatzis; et al. (1971).
[History of the Greek Nation]. 2. Ekdotike
Athenon.
1. Jump up^ 2. Jump up^ Eleni Triakoupoulou-Salakidou (June
1997). "--" [Acanthus-Erissus-
...and on this coast are the outlets of the Symaethus and all
Hierissus] (PDF). (Archaeology &
rivers that flow down from Aetna and have good harbors at
Art) (in Greek). Vol. 63.
their mouths; and here too is the promontory of Xiphonia.
According to Ephorus these were the earliest Greek cities to be 3. Jump up^ Strabo (1903). "6.2.2". Geographica. Translated
founded in Sicily, that is, in the tenth generation after the Trojan by W. Falconer. in Perseus Project 6.2
war; for before that time men were so afraid of the bands 4. Jump up^ Strabo (1903). "6.2.6". Geographica. Translated
of Tyrrhenian pirates and the savagery of the barbarians in this by W. Falconer. in Perseus Project 6.2
region that they would not so much as sail thither for trafficking; 5. ^ Jump up to:a b c *Demetriadou, Daphne (May 9,
but though Theocles, the Athenian, borne out of his course by 2003). " " ["The Colonisation of
the winds to Sicily, clearly perceived both the weakness of the the Black Sea"]. Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Asia
peoples and the excellence of the soil, yet, when he went back, Minor. Translated by Kalogeropoulou, Georgia.
he could not persuade the Athenians, and hence took as 6. Jump up^ Strabo, Geographia 17.1.18, cited in "The Archaic
partners a considerable number of Euboean Chalcidians and Period:Economy:Trade Station". Hellenic History on the Web.
some Ionians and also some Dorians (most of whom were The Foundation for the Hellenic World.
Megarians) and made the voyage; so the Chalcidians founded
Naxus, whereas the Dorians founded Megara, which in earlier
times had been called Hybla. The cities no longer exist, it is Further reading[edit]
true, but the name of Hybla still endures, because of the
excellence of the Hyblaean honey.[3] Bosher, Kathryn (2016). Theater outside Athens: Drama in
Greek Sicily and South Italy. Cambridge University
2. Jump up^ Press. ISBN 978-1107527508.
But the rest of the settlements as well as most of the interior
have come into the possession of shepherds; for I do not know Irad, Malkin (2013). A Small Greek World: Networks in the
of any settled population still living in either Himera, or Gela, Ancient Mediterranean. Oxford University Press; Reprint
or Callipolis or Selinus or Euboea or several other places. Of edition. ISBN 978-0199315727.
these cities Himera was founded by the Zanclaeans of Mylae,
Callipolis by the Naxians, Selinus by the Megarians of the
Sicilian Megara, and Euboea by the Leontines. Many of the Tsetskhladze, Gocha (2011). The Black Sea, Greece,
barbarian cities, also, have been wiped out; for example Anatolia and Europe in the First Millennium BC. Peeters
Camici, the royal residence of Cocalus at which Minos is said Publishers. ISBN 978-9042923249.
to have been murdered by treachery.[4]
Rhodes, P. J. (2010). A History of the Classical Greek World:
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