Sybaris, a city in the region of Magna Graecia (Greater Greece), located on the Gulf of Taranto, Southern Italy, near present day Corigliano, was founded by Achaean (one of the four major tribes of Classical Greece The Aeolians, Ionians and Dorians and the Achaeans) and Troezenian settlers (from Argolis, Peloponnese) in 720 BC. It’s not by chance Greeks and Italians have so much in common and are similar in many ways, not least their temperament they more or less grew up together, side by side, in fact, there is a saying, popular in both Greece and Italy ‘ Una Faccia, Una Razza’, meaning ‘One face, one race’.Īncient Greek colonies (marked in red) around the Mediterranean and Black Seaīelow I have listed ten well known cities, which you may not know have Greek origins founded and once upon a time, inhabited by Greeks. These were powerful Greek colonies that prospered greatly, some still exist today Neapolis ‘New City’, now Naples, Syracuse, Akragas (Agrigento), Taras (Taranto), Rhegion (Reggio Calabria), Kroton (Crotone). Sybaris was the first and most important of the colonies on the coast of Southern Italy,Ĭollectively, these areas came to be known as Magna Graecia, Latin for ‘ Greater Greece’ and they had an enormous influence over the locals, especially the Sicilians, who went as far as taking Greek culture as their own. The largest and most significant Greek colonies, which sprung up in the eighth century, bringing with them a taste of Greek life, were along the coastal areas of Southern Italy Campania, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily. Magna Graecia – The Greeks of Southern Italy
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