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Temple of Segesta. The history of Sicily has been influenced by numerous ethnic groups. It has seen Sicily controlled by powers, including Phoenician and Carthaginian, Greek, Roman, Vandal and Ostrogoth, Byzantine, Arab, Norman, Aragonese, Spanish, Austrians, British, but also experiencing important periods of independence, as under the indigenous Sicanians, Elymians, Sicels, the Greek ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "History of Sicily" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 ...
The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250: A Literary History. University of Pennsylvania Press. Mendola, Louis. The Kingdom of Sicily 1130-1266: The Norman-Swabian Age and the Identity of a People, Trinacria Editions, New York, 2021. Metcalfe, Alex. Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily: Arabic Speakers and the End of Islam, Routledge, 2002. Metcalfe ...
The Kingdom of Trinacria was established in 1282, the year of the coronation of King Peter III of Aragon, and was consolidated in 1302, the year of the Peace of Caltabellota when, at the conclusion of the first phase of the War of the Sicilian Vespers, the Kingdom of Sicily was officially divided into two parts, one of which was the island part of Sicily, officially called the Kingdom of ...
Early Modern period in the history of Sicily — 16th−18th centuries on the island and its territories in southwestern Italy See also the preceding Category:Medieval Sicily and the succeeding Category:Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Sicilia (/ s ɪ ˈ s ɪ l i ə /; Classical Latin: [sɪˈkɪ.li.a]; Ancient Greek: Σικελία, romanized: Sikelía) was the first province acquired by the Roman Republic, encompassing the island of Sicily.
The first Greek colonies were founded in eastern Sicily in the 8th century BC when the Chalcidian Greeks founded Zancle, Naxos, Leontinoi and Katane; in the south-east corner the Corinthians founded Syracuse and the Megareans Megara Hyblaea, while on the western coast the Cretans and Rhodians founded Gela in 689 BC, with which the first Greek colonisation of Sicily ended.
History of Syracuse: fascist period (in Italian) History of Syracuse: contemporary period (in Italian) List of mayors of Syracuse, Sicily; List of bishops of Syracuse; History of Sicily; Timelines of other cities in the macroregion of Insular Italy: Sardinia: Timeline of Cagliari; Sicily: Timeline of Catania, Messina, Palermo, Trapani