Morgantina

settlement · 750 BC – 2100 AD

An indigenous Sicilian site founded by the Morgeti, according to Strabo, Morgantina was eventually defeated by Syracuse and thus, in turn, passed into Roman hegemony in the third century B.C.

Coordinates

37.42885, 14.47698

Also known as

Morgantium (grc), Morgetes (grc), Morgyna, Murgentia, Serra Orlando (it), Serra Orlando, Sella d'Orlando (it), Μοργάντιον (grc), Μοργαντίνα (grc), Μόργητες (grc)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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