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names Perieres of Cumae and Crataemenes (Greek: ??????u????) of Chalcis as the founders of Zancle (later Messana/Messina), around 730 BC. Thus the Chalcidians wanted to control the sea strait between Sicily and Italy, just as the Metropolis of Chalkida controlled the Euboean gulfs. In the 8th century BC the increase in trade between the Chalkidian colonies in lower Italy and Sicily

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