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CAMARINA
, an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Sicily, situated on the See also:south See also:coast, about 17 m
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S.E. of See also:Gela (See also:Terranova)
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It was founded by See also:Syracuse in 599 B.C., but destroyed by the See also:mother city ih 552 for attempting to assert its See also:independence
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See also:Hippocrates of Gilareceived its territory from Syracuse and restored the See also:town in 492, but it was destroyed by Gelon in 484; the Geloans, however, founded it anew in 461
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It seems to have been in See also:general hostile to Syracuse, but, though an ally of See also:Athens in 427, it gave some slight help to Syracuse in 415-413
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It was destroyed by the Carthaginians in 405, restored by See also:Timoleon in 339 after its See also:abandonment by See also:Dionysius's See also:order, but in 258 See also:fell into the hands of the See also:Romans
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Its See also:complete destruction See also:dates from A.D
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853
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The site of the ancient city is among rapidly shifting sandhills, and the lack of See also: 201, 1899; xiv . 756, 1904) . To the See also:north See also:lay the See also:lake to which the See also:answer of the Delphic See also:oracle referred, jn) elv Kaµaptvav, when the citizens inquired as to the advisability of draining it . |
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