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The siege of Syracuse in 278 BC was the last attempt of Carthage to conquer the city of Syracuse. Syracuse was weakened by a civil war between Thoenon and Sostratus. The Carthaginians used this opportunity to attack and besiege Syracuse both by land and sea. Thoenon and Sostratus then appealed to king Pyrrhus of Epirus to come to the aid of ...
Hiero II of Syracuse calls Archimedes to fortify the city by Sebastiano Ricci (1720s).. Sicily, which was wrested from Carthaginian control during the First Punic War (264–241 BC), was the first province of the Roman Republic not directly part of Italy.
This category includes historical battles in which city-state of Syracuse (7th century BC–211 BC) participated. Please see the category guidelines for more information. Subcategories
535 – Syracuse taken by Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire. [1] 668 – 15 September: Assassination of Byzantine emperor Constans II. [7] 827-828 - Siege of Syracuse (827–828). 877–878 – Siege of Syracuse (877–878) by Aghlabid forces. [2] 1088 – Syracuse besieged by forces of Roger I of Sicily. [8] 1140 – Earthquake. [9]
The city of Syracuse, on the island of Sicily southwest of the Italian peninsula, has been besieged repeatedly since its founding as a Greek colony, including the following: Before the Common Era, while a Greek colony or Hellenistic state: 415–413 by the Athenians during the Sicilian Expedition; 397 by the Carthaginians
Syracuse (Ancient Greek: Συρακοῦσαι) was an ancient Greek city-state, located on the east coast of Sicily, Magna Graecia. The city was founded by settlers from Corinth in 734 or 733 BCE , and was conquered by the Romans in 212 BCE, after which it became the seat of Roman rule in Sicily.
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Siege of Syracuse in 212 BC, between the city of Syracuse, and a Roman army under Marcellus sent to put down the city's uprising. The battle that Archimedes held off for two years and the battle that killed Archimedes; Battle of Syracuse (1710), a naval battle in the War of the Spanish Succession between French and British fleets.