Gela
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A Greek polis in ancient Sikelia.
Establishment
January 649 BC: Around 650 BC some greek settlers coming from Rhodos and Crete founded Gela in Sicily.
Chronology
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Were a series of conflicts fought between ancient Carthage and the Greek city-states led by Syracuse (Sicily) over the control of Sicily and the western Mediterranean.
January 489 BC: Cleander of Gela and his brother Hippocrates successfully took over both Ionian and Dorian Greek territory, and by 490 BC, Zankle, Leontini, Catana, Naxos, besides neighboring Sicel lands and Camarina had fallen under Gelan control.
January 489 BC: Anaxilas of Rhegion was a tyrant of Rhegion, an ancient Greek city in Italy. Zankle, now known as Messina, was a Greek colony in Sicily. Gela was another Greek city-state in Sicily. Anaxilas captured Zankle from Gela in 490 BC, establishing his control over the territory.
January 484 BC: Gelo, successor of Hippocrates, captured Syracuse in 485 BC and made the city his capital.
January 464 BC: In 465 BC, the city of Syracuse rebelled against the rule of Gela.
January 464 BC: In 465 BC, the city of Megara in Sicily rebelled against the rule of the tyrant Theron of Akragas. The territory was subsequently taken over by the powerful city-state of Syracuse, led by the tyrant Hieron I.
1.1.Second Sicilian War
Was a conflict fought between ancient Carthage and the Greek city-states led by Syracuse (Sicily) over the control of Sicily and the western Mediterranean.
January 404 BC: The city of Gela is captured and destroyed.
Were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states.
2.1.First Persian invasion of Greece
Were a series of campaigns of Achaemenid ruler Darius the Great against the poleis of Greece resulting in Persian occupation of Thrace but also in the Persian defeat in Greece proper.
January 482 BC: Megara was incorporated into Syracuse around 483 BC.
January 480 BC: Euboia was incorporated into Syracuse in the V Century.
Was a revolt in Sicily by the local Sicelian people led by Ducetius.
January 459 BC: Ducetius, strengthened by the recent military victory and by the Sicilian malcontent for the centuries-old Greek oppression, stood at the head of a Sicilian league practically becoming the King of the Sicilians.
January 452 BC: Agnone conquered by Confederation of the Sicels.
January 449 BC: In 450 BC Sicel leader Ducetius was defeated by the Greek Poleis of Sicily at Nomae (perhaps in the province of Agrigento) and later at Motyon (near San Cataldo). This caused the collapse of the Confederation of the Sicels.
Conquests by Agathocles, tyrant of the Polis of Syracuse (Sicily).
January 310 BC: In 317 BC, Agathocles, a powerful ruler of Syracuse, laid siege to the city of Gela, eventually conquering it in 311 BC. Gela was an important Greek colony in Sicily, and its fall to Agathocles marked a significant victory for Syracuse in its quest for dominance in the region.
January 349 BC: Gela (Sicily) was refounded in the IVth centyry BC.
Disestablishment
January 310 BC: In 317 BC, Agathocles, a powerful ruler of Syracuse, laid siege to the city of Gela, eventually conquering it in 311 BC. Gela was an important Greek colony in Sicily, and its fall to Agathocles marked a significant victory for Syracuse in its quest for dominance in the region.
