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Segesta - Province of Trapani - Photo Archive of Sicily. The city of Trapani. (849 words) |
 | It is placed in the northwestern part of Sicily, in the province of Trapani and in the vicinity of Alcamo and Gibellina. |
| According to the tradition used in Virgil's Aeneid, Segesta was founded jointly by the territorial king Acestes (who was son of the local river Crinisus by a Dardanian woman) and by those of Aeneas' folk who wished to remain behind with Acestes to found the city of Acesta. |
| The belief that the name of the city was originally Acesta or Egesta and changed to Segesta by the Romans to avoid its ill-omened meaning in Latin is disproved by coins showing that Segesta was indeed the earlier name. |
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