Historical place profile
Mylae
An ancient Greek settlement on the north-east coast of Sicily, located at the base of a peninsula that juts into the Tyrrhenian Sea. A colony of Zancle, it was probably founded in the eighth or seventh century BC. In 260 BC, during the First Punic War, the Romans won their first major naval battle against the Carthaginians in the waters off Mylae.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:462379
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:462379
- Place type
- isthmus, port, settlement
- Coordinates
- 38.219365, 15.240385
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient Greek settlement on the north-east coast of Sicily, located at the base of a peninsula that juts into the Tyrrhenian Sea. A colony of Zancle, it was probably founded in the eighth or seventh century BC. In 260 BC, during the First Punic War, the Romans won their first major naval battle against the Carthaginians in the waters off Mylae.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 G2 Mylae
Source and reuse
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Research path
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