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REGIUM (Gr. `Pi ytov: in Latin the aspirate is omitted)  , a See also:city of the territory of the See also:Bruttii in See also:South See also:Italy, on the See also:east See also:side of the strait between Italy and See also:Sicily (Strait of See also:Messina) . at least among the See also:Baptists and the See also:Independents, there was some objection to this See also:form of See also:state aid, and in 1851 the See also:chancellor of the See also:exchequer announced that it would be withdrawn . This was done six years later . See J . See also:Stoughton, See also:History of See also:Religion in See also:England (1901) ; J . S . See also:Reid, History of the Presbyterian See also:Church in See also:Ireland (See also:Belfast, 1867) ; and E . See also:Calamy, See also:Historical See also:Account of my own See also:Life, edited by J.T . Rutt A See also:colony, mainly of Chalcidians, partly of Messenians from the See also:Peloponnesus, settled at See also:Regium in the 8th See also:century B.C . About 494 B.C . Anaxilas, a member of the Messenian party, made him-self See also:master of Regium (apparently—from numismatic See also:evidence, for the coins assignable to this See also:period are modelled on Samian types—with the help of the Samians: see MESSINA) and about 488 joined with them in occupying Zancle (Messina) . Here they remained .

(See C . H . See also:

Dodd in See also:Journal of Hellenic Studies, See also:xxviii . (1908) 56 sqq.) This coinage was resumed after the See also:establishment of the See also:democracy about 461 B.C., when Anaxilas' sons were driven out . In 433 Regium made a treaty with See also:Athens, and in 427 joined the Athenians against See also:Syracuse, but in 415 it remained neutral . An attack which it made on See also:Dionysius I. of Syracuse in 399 was the beginning of a See also:great struggle which in 387 resulted in its See also:complete destruction and the See also:dispersion of its inhabitants as slaves . Restored by the younger Dionysius under the name of Phoebias, the colony soon recovered its prosperity and resumed its See also:original designation . In 28o, when See also:Pyrrhus invaded Italy, the Regines admitted within their walls a See also:Roman See also:garrison of Campanian troops; these mercenaries revolted, massacred the male citizens, and held the city till in 270 they were besieged and put to See also:death by the Roman See also:consul Genucius . The city remained faithful to See also:Rome throughout the Punic See also:wars, and See also:Hannibal never succeeded in taking it . Up till the Social See also:War it struck coins of its own, with See also:Greek legends . Though one of the cities promised by the triumvirs to the veterans, Regium escaped through the favour of Octavius (hence it took the name Regium Julium) . It continued, however, to be a Greek city even under the See also:Empire, and never became a colony .

Towards the end of the Empire it was made the See also:

chief city of the Bruttii . Of See also:ancient buildings hardly anything remains at Regium, and nothing of the archaic Greek period is in situ, except possibly the remains of a See also:temple of See also:Artemis Phacelitis, which have not yet been explored, though various See also:inscriptions relative to it have been found . The museum, however, contains a number of terra-cottas, vases, inscriptions, &c., and a number of See also:Byzantine See also:lead See also:seals . Several See also:baths of the Greek period, modified by the See also:Romans, have been found, and the remains of one of these may still be seen . A large See also:mosaic of the 3rd or 4th century A.D. with representations of See also:wild animals and the figure of a See also:warrior in the centre was found in 1904 and covered up again . The See also:aqueduct and various cisterns connected with it have been traced, and some tombs of the 5th or 4th century a.c . (or even later) were found in 1907 . See Notizie degli scavi, passim; P . Larizza, Rhegium Chalcidense (Rome, 1905) . ' (T .

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