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City of north-eastern Sicily that gave its name to
the straight between Italy and Sicily (area 1).
The original name of the city was Zancle. Founded by pirates from Cumæ
(a Greek settlement in Italy, in the Naples area), it was successively taken
over by new settlers coming from Euboea, then from
Samos and Ionia, and eventually
by Messenians having fled their country in Peloponnese
and first settled in Reggio, who changed its name to
that of their former city, Messene (see Thucydides,
VI, 4, 5 ; the Greek names of both cities was the same, but have evolved
differently through Latin, Italian and English translations).