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498–491 BCE - Hippocrates of Gela threatened the independence of Syracuse. [2] 491–478 BCE - Gelon is tyrant of Syracuse. 480 BCE - Gelon defeats Carthage at the Battle of Himera. 415–413 BCE – Syracuse besieged by Greek forces. [1] [2] 397 BCE - Siege of Syracuse (397 BC) 343 BCE - Siege of Syracuse (343 BC)
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.
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 ...
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.
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
Siege of Syracuse (415–413 BC), during the Sicilian Expedition; By, or in league with, the Carthaginians: Siege of Syracuse (397 BC) Siege of Syracuse (343 BC) Siege of Syracuse (311–309 BC) Siege of Syracuse (278 BC) By the Roman Republic: Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC), during the Second Punic War against Carthage; By the Arab Aghlabid ...
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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.