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Encyclopedia4U - Segesta - Encyclopedia Article (687 words) |
 | The first clashes were in 580-576 BC, and again in 454 BC, but later the conflict would have repercussions for all of Sicily. |
| In 276 BC the city was allied with Pyrrhus, but changed side in 260 BC when it surrendered to the Romans. |
| The city was not punished by the Romans for its long alliance with Carthage, but owing to the mythical common origin of the Romans and the Elymians (both descendants of refugees from Troy) it was granted the state of a "free and immune" city. |
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| Around 550 BC the inhabitants of this Ionian colony, which had taken its name from the island the Greek settlers had come from, began to mint their own coins. |
| From the beginning, their coinage was marked by the depiction of the "mild" Dionysus, revered on the island and held to be responsible, for example, for the ripening of figs. |
| The town was destroyed in the year 403 BC by the Syracusans, because Naxos had supported Athens in the Peloponnesian War. |
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