Zancle/Messana

settlement · 750 BC – 2100 AD

Zancle was founded as Greek colony in the eighth century B.C. Home of the Mamertines who called for Roman assistance against Carthaginian forces in 264 B.C., sparking the First Punic War.

Coordinates

38.19225, 15.55663

Also known as

Mamertina, Messana (la), Messana (la), Messina (it), Messina (it), Messḗnē (grc), Zánklē (grc), Ζάγκλη (grc), Μεσσήνη (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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