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Siracusa Rental Homes offeres several properties for weekly rent in the heart of historical Siracusa.

Generality: Siracusa residence in Sicily houses for rent - Syracuse (city)

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).

Siracusa residence in Sicily houses for rent Sicily had involved so, at least indirectly, in the operations of the war of the Peloponneso: since 431 the Spartanis had asked helps to the launchings been Sicilian and in 427 (according to Tucidide) the Athenians they sent a small army "because they wanted to prevent that from Sicily wheat was imported in the Peloponneso and to try, if possible, to become masters of the situation in the island." The struggle interested a lot of cities (Imera, Freezes and Selinunte from the part in Syracuse; Camarina, Catania, Nasso, Athens from the part of Lentini). In 424 for initiative of it Freezes and of Camarina the Greek cities were gathered to conference to it Freezes and they decided the peace, sustained kind by the siracusano Ermocrate, to prevent the Athenian prevalence in Sicily. In 416, in the circle of a conflict between Selinunte and Segesta, Syracuse supported Selinunte and Segesta it found the support in Athens patronized by Alcibiade against the tendency contrary of Nicia. In the 415 Athens it sent the second consignment in Sicily (250 ships and 25.000 men) that assembled him in the siege in Syracuse but it resolved him in resounding failure: 7000 men done imprisoned during the siege and I confined in the latomies (cave of stone); to the surrender of the two Athenian general Demostene and Nicia, also caused by desertions of the troops and by epidemics, it followed the final disaster of the battle of the river Assinaro, in which Athenian strengths were completely you destroy. peace assigned the control of western Sicily and the Greek cities of Selinunte to Cartagine, Agrigento, Imera, Freezes and Camarina.

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