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Corinthians led by the aristocrat Archias settle …
Years: 741BCE - 730BCE
Corinthians led by the aristocrat Archias settle Syracuse on the east coast of Sicily in 734 BCE; the city soon dominates the coastal plain and hill country beyond.
The original Greek settlers of the city form an elite (gamoroi), while the Sicel natives (Siculi) work the land as an oppressed class.
These settlements set the trend for the earliest colonization movement to the west.
Southern Italy and Sicily will become known as Magna Graecia (Great Greece) because of the extent and density of colonization that follow the initial ventures.
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- Sicels
- Greece, classical
- Sicily, classical
- Italy, classical
- Corinth, City-State of
- Magna Graecia
- Syracuse, Corinthian city-state of
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Years: 741BCE - 730BCE
Locations
Groups
- Sicels
- Greece, classical
- Sicily, classical
- Italy, classical
- Corinth, City-State of
- Magna Graecia
- Syracuse, Corinthian city-state of
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions