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| 900-700 Carthaginians (Phoenicians
from eastern Mediterranean) replace the Mycenaean and settled Panormus
(Palermo), Solunto and Mothya. Both the Greeks and the Phoenicians arrived in Sicily in the 8th century BC. The Greek opted for a full-scale colonisation and various Greek city states founded and populated in a period of 250 years a number of cities on the E. and S. coast of Sicily, including Zancle (Messina), Naxos, Syracuse, Catania, Megara, Gela, Imera, Selinunte and Akragas (Agrigento). |
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The Phoenicians preferred
an approach based on cooperation and trade. They founded few, small and
coastal cities that were more like trading stations for exchange with the
indigenous people than colonisation. The most important cities founded by
the Phoenicians are Motya (Mozia), Palermo and Solunto. While the Greeks
were often in conflict with the Sicani and the Siculi, the Phoenicians
generally had peaceful relations with the indigenous. |
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