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Megara Hyblaea
37.2039° N, 15.1819° E
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Megara Hyblaea (Ancient Greek: Μέγαρα Ὑβλαία) – perhaps identical with Hybla Major – is an ancient Greek colony of Magna Graecia in Sicily, situated near Augusta on the east coast, 20 kilometres (12 mi) north-northwest of Syracuse, Italy, on the deep bay formed by the Xiphonian promontory. There were at least three (and possibly as many as five) cities named "Hybla" in ancient accounts of Sicily which are often confounded with each other, and among which it is sometimes very difficult to distinguish.
Historical Timeline
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Urban reorganisation and early agora
mid-7th century BC
Sicilian Expedition — Lamachus proposal
415–413 BC
Destruction by Gelon of Syracuse
c. 483 BC
Foundation (Thucydides estimate)
c. 726 BC
Alternative foundation (Scymnus & Strabo)
c. 735–734 BC
Chronikon date (Eusebius)
758 BC
Professor Miller reconstruction
c. 758–728 BC
Archaeological excavations revealing wall and necropolis
1891
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