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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 726 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THAPSUS , a See also:

low See also:peninsula, now known as Magnisi, joined by a narrow See also:isthmus to the mainland of See also:Sicily, about 7 M. N.N.W. of See also:Syracuse. The founders of See also:Megara Hyblaea settled here temporarily, according to See also:Thucydides, in the See also:winter of 729-728 B.C., but it seems to have] remained almost if not entirely uninhabited until the Athenians used it as a See also:naval station in their attack on Syracuse See also:early in 414 B.C. A number of tombs were excavated in 1894, containing See also:objects belonging to a transitional See also:stage between the second and third Sicel See also:period, attributable roughly to 1000-900 B.C., and with a certain proportion of Mycenean importations. See Orsi in Monumenti dei Lincei (1897), vi. 89-150.

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