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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 318 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAXOS , the earliest See also:

Greek See also:colony in See also:Sicily, was founded by Theocles from See also:Chalcis in 735 B.C., on the E. See also:coast, S. of Tauromenium (mod. See also:Taormina), in a See also:low-lying situation just N. of the mouth of the See also:river See also:Alcantara, where the See also:castle of Schiso now stands. The See also:adoption of the name of Naxos, the See also:island in the See also:Aegean See also:Sea, seems to indicate that there were Naxians among its founders. Within a few years it became strong enough to found See also:Leontini and Catana. Naxos was the warmest ally of See also:Athens in the Sicilian expedition. In 403 B.C. it was destroyed by See also:Dionysius and handed over to the Sicels, but was never rebuilt. Its See also:place was supplied in 358 by Tauromenium. Scanty traces of its walls are to be seen, of irregular blocks of See also:lava, especially on the See also:south, parallel to the river (E. A. See also:Freeman, Inst. of Sic. i. 323). Without the See also:city stood the See also:altar of See also:Apollo Archegetes, at which all sacred embassies that See also:left Sicily sacrificed before their departure (Thuc. vi.

3).

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