Agrigento | Scopello | Segesta | Selinunte | Sicily

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Located on a plateau about 30 meters above sea level, Selinunte takes its name from Selinon, wild parsley. It was founded by colonists from Megara Hyblaea led by the oecist Pammilos, in the 7th century BC. Subsequent migrations of Megarian Sicilian colonists occurred both in the last decades of the 7th and throughout the 6th century up to the early 5th. Selinunte attempted to found colonies in western Sicily (Eraclea Minoa). When, at the beginning of the 5th century, the war between the Greeks of Sicily and the Carthaginians broke out, ending with the Battle of Himera in 480, Selinunte, strangely, preferred to ally with Carthage.

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