Selinous
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627 BC Selinous founded from Megara Hyblaea.
The name comes from the wild celery.
contacts with Sikels, Elymians and Carthago
end 6C BC The Spartan Eurileon tyrant of Selinous
480 BC ally of Carhago. Still kept independance.
480-409 BC allied with Syracusa against Carthago and Segesta
415 BC Pro-Athene. Segesta threatened by Selinous asked the Athenians for help, but Athenians defeated by Syracusa.
409 BC sacked by Hannibal asked for help by Segesta (border quarrels)
walls partially destroyed
409-407 BC Hermocrates exile from Syracusa walled part of the city
407-276 BC Selinus under the dominion of Carthago, established in treaties with
Dionysius (405), Timoleon (339), Agathocles (314).
317 BC among this time Selinous is subjected to the Syracusan supremacy
307 BC among this time Selinous is subjected to the Syracusan supremacy
278-277 BC or 276-276 BC Selinus joined Pyrrhus
250 BC Carthaginians destroyed the city and moved the inhabitants to Lilybaeum.