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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a low peninsula, now known as Magnisi, joined by a narrow isthmus to the mainland of Sicily, about 7 m. N.N.W. of Syracuse. The founders of Megara Hyblaea settled here temporarily, according to Thucydides, in the winter of 729-728 B.C., but it seems to have remained almost if not entirely uninhabited until the Athenians used it as a naval station in their attack on Syracuse early in 414 B.C. A number of tombs were excavated in 1894, containing objects belonging to a transitional stage between the second and third Sicel period, attributable roughly to r000-goo B.C., and with a certain proportion of Mycenean importations.
See Orsi in Monumenti dei Lincei (1897), vi. 89 -150.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Thapsus'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/t/thapsus.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Thapsus'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/t/thapsus.html. 1910.
