antiquity.

After falling into the hands of the Samnites, it was taken in about 335 BC by King Alexander of Epirus, uncle of Alexander the Great. In 189 BC it became a Roman colony with the name Sipontum. The name Sipious was used in Byzantine times. In 663 AD it was taken and destroyed by the Slavs.

In the ninth century, Sipontum was for a time in the power of the Saracens.

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