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The Greek Tyrants
Book by A. Andrewes; Hutchinsons University Library, 1956
Subjects:	Dictators, Greece--History
...Chalcis founded her western colonies, Leontini and Catana, which share the fertile corn-plain of north-east Sicily, Rhegium and Zancle Messana , which control the sea passage between Italy and Sicily, all of them shortly before or after 730. The men of Chalcis...

Alexandrian Poetry under the First Three Ptolemies, 324-222 B.C
Book by Auguste Couat, James Loeb; W. Heinemann, Ltd., 1931
Subjects:	Greek Poetry--History And Criticism

The Greeks in the West
Book by A. G. Woodhead; Praeger, 1962
Subjects:	Magna Graecia (Italy)--History
...participation of Cumaeans in the foundation of Zancle, the later Messana, shows that the safeguarding...need be said. The eastern end was dominated by Zancle Messina , so named from a ZANCLE native word meaning sickle, and describing the...

A History of Ancient Coinage, 700-300 B.C
Book by Percy Gardner; Clarendon Press, 1918
Subjects:	Coinage, Coins, Ancient, Numismatics, Greek
...But it cannot be a mere coincidence that at just this period there appear upon the coins of Rhegium and the neighbouring Zancle quite new types, a lions scalp and a calfs head, which seem certainly derived from the coinage of Samos. Another example...

Thucydides - Vol. 2
Book by Benjamin Jowett; Clarendon Press, 1900
Subjects:	Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C, Inscriptions, Greek

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Zancle
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ZANCLE see Messina , Italy. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

Messina
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...processed food, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and construction materials. Founded (late 8th cent. b.c.) by Greek colonists and named Zancle, the city was captured (5th cent. b.c.) by Anaxilas of Rhegium and renamed Messana. It became involved in several wars, particularly...

Sicily
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Trapani ); and on the east and southeast coasts Greeks founded (8th 6th cent. b.c.) such cities as Syracuse , Catania , Zancle (now Messina ), Gela , and Selinus and settled in older towns like Segesta . The Greek cities flourished and in turn...

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