History of Sicily - Wikipedia
WEBSicily was merged with the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. Although today an Autonomous Region, with special statute, of the Republic of Italy, it has its own distinct culture. Sicily is both the largest region of the modern state of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
Sicily | History, Geography, & People | Britannica
WEB5 days ago — Sicily was inhabited 10,000 years ago. Its strategic location at the centre of the Mediterranean has made the island a crossroads of history, a pawn of conquest and empire, and a melting pot for a dozen or more ethnic groups whose warriors or merchants sought its shores.
Sicily - Wikipedia
WEBThe earliest archaeological record of human activity on the island is from around 14,000 BC. By around 750 BC, Sicily had three Phoenician and a dozen Greek colonies along its coasts, becoming one of the centers of Magna Graecia.
History of Sicily - New World Encyclopedia
WEBThe history of Sicily has seen it usually controlled by greater powers—Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, Islamic, Hohenstaufen, Catalan, Spanish—but also experiencing periods of independence as under the Greeks and later as the Emirate then Kingdom of Sicily.
Ancient Sicily - World History Encyclopedia
WEBMay 29, 2014 — There were three indigenous groups on ancient Sicily: the Elymi in the western part of the island, the Sicani in the centre, and the Sicels in the east - the latter being the root of the island's name.
Sicily History Timeline - Time for Sicily
WEBSicily is a land full of history from Greek cities to Roman rule and the Punic Wars to the Arab period. Explore Sicilian history with Time For Sicily's guidebooks. Sicily is more than you heard!
HISTORY OF SICILY | Historyworld
WEBColonized by Phoenicians and Greeks, and fought over between Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans in the Punic wars, its architectural and artistic remains bear witness to its past grandeur - in the great series of Greek temples, or the Roman mosaics at Piazza armerina.
History of Sicily - The Thinking Traveller
WEBOver 2,500 years at a strategic crossroads of the western world have left Sicily with an unparalleled historical legacy. Discover Sicily's history here.
History of Sicily - di Casa in Sicilia
WEBSicily is a land of myths and legends, a treasure trove of history, art, culture, tradition and folklore: let yourself be seduced by its amazing history.
Sicily: culture and conquest — Google Arts & Culture
WEBSicily’s unique multicultural milieu, shaped by tolerant rulers who were also philosophers and scientists, poets and academics, disappeared before the start of the Italian Renaissance, around...