Chalcidians from Naxos in Sicily expel Megarians…
729 BCE to 718 BCE
Chalcidians from Naxos in Sicily expel Megarians from the site of Leontini in 729, holding both sides of the Strait of Messina and colonizing the richest agricultural sites in the island.
The site, originally held by the Sicels, was seized by the Greeks owing to its command of the fertile plain to the north.
It is virtually the only Greek settlement in Sicily not located on the coast, being some six miles inland.