The Greek cities and building in Sicily

[Tiberio]

Segesta were apparently an indigenous city but the art and the culture were Hellenic. So i guess the indigenous italic-ligurian tribes were Hellenized and absorbed in the Greek-Siceliot population. The same is for Morgantina.

[Tiberio]

Tyndaris, modern Tindari, founded by Dionigi of Siracusa in 396 a.C and populated with Corinthians and Spartans mercenaries.

[Tiberio]

Morgantina located in center Sicily, this city was founded by an Italic tribe called Morgeti and Hellenized under the Syracusan influences in the whole Sicily with the Tyrants.

[Ianus]

Realy a nice thread Tiberio up

[Tiberio]

Documentary of Segesta.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFG0i__FpY8

[Sikeliot]

Another important point is we don't know, during Byzantine rule, how many Greeks settled Sicily. It is likely that all of the major coastal cities, from Trapani to Messina to Palermo and so on, received influxes of Greeks. Though I am still partial to the idea that pre-Greek central and southern Italians were similar to Greeks in many ways.

[Tiberio]

Pope Agatone was of Greek origins in Palermo.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Agatone

[Tiberio]

Solunto, near Santa Flavia. Generally this ancient city is consider the third phoenician emporium in Sicily with Palermo and Mozia/Lilibeo. In fact was initially an emporium but in 396 a.C the original emporium was razed by the Syracusans and they founded a sub-colony with Siceliots and Italiots mercenaries and family.