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Generality: Siracusa Italy apartments for rent in Sicily - Syracuse (city)

City of Sicily, chief town of the homonym province, situated to 17 ms s.m. in a splendid I bring natural of the southeastern coast of the island: common of 236,24 km2s with 126.721 abs. (respect 2000). After having reached a great urbanistic expansion in the period of the maximum political and economic shine, the city reduced him to the alone island of Ortigia, that currently constitutes the more ancient urban nucleus. The island rises to few meters from the dry land, with which it is connected from a bridge, among the I Bring small to NW and the I Bring great to SW, ample closed roadstead to S from the peninsula of the Maddalena.

Siracusa Italy apartments for rent in Sicily The inhabited area, that had not overcome the limits of the island for many centuries, after the unity of Italy it started to stretch on the dry land with to regulate structure to chessboard, planned on the today's course Umberto I, and it considerably became larger subsequently toward N in the inclusive area between the coast and the archaeological zone of the latomies. It founds his/her economy on the traditional agricultural (table grape and from wine, citrus fruit, vegetables, fruit and flowers) activities and zootecniche (bovine breeding), on the fishing, on the commerce (export of the agricultural products, especially citrus fruit and tomatoes) and on the industries. These, risen out of town for the, they also develop a notable attraction of the manpower from the near centers to Syracuse; they are you mechanical industries, chemical, alimentary, paper, of the wood and of the construction materials. The fishing and the port activities have recorded in the years Seventy and Eighty a notable ridimensionamento. The city is center arcivescovile.

History: origins give to Dionisio I

Ancient Greek colony founded upon the islet of Ortigia, had subsequently called Syracusa from Archia of Corinto in 733 to. C. according to the traditional chronology testified by Tucidide. For some researchers it is acceptable also a tall chronology (756 to. C.) and for others a low chronology (710 to. C.). In the sec. You the colony had an aristocratic government constituted by land (gamóroi) owners, while the descendants of the native cilliris were you deprive of political rights. To the beginning of the sec. V, Chilblain of the family of the Dinomenidis of it Freezes it appropriated him of Syracuse gathering the territory of it with that of it Freezes, the rival Camarina destroyed and with the help of Terone, tyrant of Agrigento, won the Carthaginian ones to Imera (480 to. C.). His/her brother happened to him Gerone that he fought against Catania and you/he/she won the Etruschis in the important naval battle of Cuma (474) that you/he/she guaranteed in Syracuse the commercial hegemony in the southern Tyrrhenian. During the government of the successor Trasibulo, brother of Gerone (while his/her child Dinomene became tyrant of Etna), the overthrow of the family of the Dinomenidis was had to work of a coalition in which the Siracusanis were helped by armies of Agrigento, Imera, Freezes, Selinunte and from troops sicule. With the expulsion to Locri of Trasibulo democracy replaced the tyranny in the whole Sicily, except to Etna and Messina. Syracuse effected then an expansionistic politics against Agrigento and, in 427, against Lentini, which had stipulated an essay of friendship with Athens (how Segesta and Reggio). Sicily had involved so, at least indirectly, in the operations of the war of the Peloponneso.

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