🏛️ Katane-Zancle Messana
Layered Greek and Roman settlement remains in northeastern Sicily
📌 Fast Facts
- Located in Messina, Sicily (37.502579°N, 15.086878°E)
- Successive Greek colonies: Zancle (8th century BCE), then Messana (after 264 BCE)
- Roman control from First Punic War through Late Antiquity
- Largely submerged or built over; limited visible archaeological remains
Messina occupies the site of one of Sicily's oldest and most strategically important Hellenistic settlements. The original Greek ...