Halaesa

settlement · 330 BC – 2100 AD

Halaesa is located on the north coast of Sicily between between Kalakta and Kephaloidion. The city was founded in 403 B.C. by Archonides of Herbita. The city sided with Rome during the First Punic War and was made "libera et immunis". By the Augustan period it had become a municipium.

Coordinates

37.99871, 14.26259

Also known as

Abesa (la), Abesa (la), Alesa (it), Alesa Arconidea (ita), Alesa, Alesa Arconidea (it), Alexo (la), Alexo (la), Halaisa (grc), Haleso (la), Haleso (la), Tusa (it), Tusa, Castel di Tusa (it), Ἄλαισα (grc)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• iDAI.gazetteer (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) · CC BY
  iDAI.gazetteer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (CC BY)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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