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TYNDARIS , an See also:ancient See also:city on the See also:northern See also:coast of See also:Sicily, about 13 M. W.S.W. of Mylae (mod. Milazzo) and 5 M. E. of the See also:modern See also:town of See also:Patti. It was founded by See also:Dionysius the See also:Elder in 395 B.C., who settled there 600 Peloponnesian Messenians on a site cut out of the territory of Abacaenum (1 m. See also:north of the modern Tripi). It was thus almost the last See also:Greek city founded in Sicily. It was one of the earliest See also:allies of See also:Timoleon. In the First Punic See also:War it was dependent on See also:Carthage, but expelled the See also:garrison in 254 B.C. and joined the See also:Romans, under whom it seems to have flourished. See also:Cicero calls it " nobilissima civitas," though it seems to have suffered especially under See also:Verres. It was one of the points occupied by Sextus Pompeius, but was later on taken by See also:Agrippa, who used it as a See also:base of operations. See also:Augustus probably made it a colonia. See also:Pliny mentions that See also:half of it was swallowed upby the See also:sea, though he does not give the date of this event (Hist. nat. ii. 206). It was probably, however, due to a See also:fault in the See also:limestone See also:rock of which it is composed, and the See also:action of the sea. The site is a remarkably See also:fine one, and it is surprising that it was not occupied sooner. It is an isolated See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill (920 ft.) with projecting spurs, rising abruptly on the seaward See also:side, and connected by a comparatively narrow See also:isthmus with the See also:lower ground inland. It thus commands a magnificent view, including even the See also:summit of See also:Etna, while opposite to it on the north are the Lipari Islands. Considerable remains of the city walls, built of rectangular blocks of See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, exist on the See also:south side; on the See also:west their See also:foundations are traceable. Remains of several towers may be seen, and the, site of the See also:main See also:gate, which was in a See also:recess on the south (the See also:land) side, is clearly traceable, the walls defending it on each side being well preserved. Outside it are several tombs of the See also:Roman See also:period. The walls follow the upper edge of the See also:plateau, and do not seem to have included the spurs to seaward. Their remains indicate that it was the north and north-See also:east portion of the city that See also:fell. This fact renders it doubtful whether the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of the Madonna di Tindari, at the east extremity, marks the site of the See also:acropolis. Along parts of the north side, where the See also:line of the See also:wall should run, is a line of debris, which may belong to a reconstruction after the See also:catastrophe described by Pliny. Within the walls are considerable remains of a See also:building generally known (though not correctly) as the gymnasium, constructed of See also:masonry, with three narrow halls, each about 90 ft. See also:long, the central See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall being 21 ft. wide, the other two 14 ft. Below it to the north are remains of a building with several See also:mosaic pavements, and to the west is a small See also:theatre, the See also:internal See also:diameter of which is 212 It., and the length of the See also:stage 8o ft. There are traces of many other buildings within the city See also:area, including a consider-able number of underground cisterns An important collection of See also:objects found on the site is preserved in the See also:Villa della Scala (12 m. to the west), belonging to See also:Baron See also:Sciacca, the owner of the site itself.
See R. V. Scaffidi, Tyndaris (See also:Palermo, 1895). (T.
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