Chalcidians under Theocles (or Thucles) establish Naxos,…

741 BCE to 730 BCE

Chalcidians under Theocles (or Thucles) establish Naxos, the earliest Greek colony in Sicily, on the east coast, south of Tauromenium (modern Taormina), just north of the mouth of the Alcantara River, on what is now Cape Schisò, in about 734 BCE.

Although there are already native Sicels at Tauromenium, they cannot have offered much opposition.

The adoption of the name of Naxos, after the island in the Aegean Sea, may show that there are Naxians among its founders.

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