The Genoese traders fled, taking the plague by ship into Sicily and the south of Europe, whence it spread north.

* Carthage transfers a group of small islands north of Sicily ( Aeolian Islands and Ustica ) to Rome.

In historical times, Megara was an early dependency of Corinth, in which capacity colonists from Megara founded Megara Hyblaea, a small polis north of Syracuse in Sicily.

This poem is historically interesting for its information on north Italian perspectives concerning the War of the Sicilian Vespers, the conflict between the Angevins and Aragonese for Sicily.

The nearest land masses are ( clockwise from north ) the island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Balearic Islands.

The eight Aeolian Islands and Ustica are located in the southern part of the sea, north of Sicily.

After the festivities he is exiled to the Lipari Islands ( north of Sicily ).

These first Neolithic people probably arrived from Sicily ( about 100 kilometres / 60 miles north ), and were mainly farming and fishing communities, with some evidence of hunting activities.

After the Norman conquest the population of the Maltese islands kept growing mainly through immigration from the north ( Sicily and Italy ), with the exile to Malta of the entire male population of the town of Celano ( Italy ) in 1223, the stationing of a Norman and Sicilian garrison on Malta in 1240 and the settlement in Malta of noble families from Sicily between 1372 and 1450.

It is bounded by southern Italy including Calabria, Sicily and the Salento peninsula to the west, southern Albania to the north, and west coast of Greece.

It is bounded to the north by the region of Basilicata, to the south-west by the region of Sicily, to the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and to the east by the Ionian Sea.

Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto ( Sicilian: Baccialona Pizzaottu ) is a town and comune of about 50, 000 inhabitants in the north coast of Sicily, Italy, 40 km from Messina towards Palermo.

The two generals were instructed to enlist the support of Frederick Barbarossa, since he was hostile to the Normans of Sicily and was south of the Alps at the time, but he declined because his demoralised army longed to get back north of the Alps as soon as possible.

The Aeolian Islands or Lipari Islands (,, ) are a volcanic archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily, named after the demigod of the winds Aeolus.

Lipari (,, Ancient Greek: Meligunis ) is the largest of the Aeolian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the north coast of Sicily, and the name of the island's main town.

Strabo speaks of it as one of the places on the north coast of Sicily which, in his time, still deserved the name of cities ; and Pliny gives it the title of a Colonia.

Malta is an archipelago of coralline limestone, located in the Mediterranean Sea, approximately 93 kilometres south of Sicily, Italy, and nearly 300 km north ( Libya ) and northeast ( Tunisia ) of Africa.

Like Simonides and Pindar, however, Bacchylides composed lyrics to appeal to the sophisticated tastes of a social elite and his patrons, though relatively few in number, covered a wide, geographical area around the Mediterranean, including for example Delos in The Aegean Sea, Thessaly to the north of mainland Greece and Sicily or Magna Graecia in the west.

* Himilco crosses to Sicily from Carthage with a fresh army, conquers the north coast, puts Dionysius I, the Tyrant of Syracuse, on the defensive and besieges Syracuse.

* Ducetius, the Hellenised leader of the Siculi, an ancient people of Sicily, returns from exile in Corinth to Sicily and colonises Cale Acte on the north coast with Greek and Siculi settlers.

Since the 1980s, dessert wines made from the Malvasia delle Lipari variety has seen a resurgence in interest on the volcanic Aeolian Islands off the north east coast of Sicily.

A ferry service connects Messina on Sicily with the mainland at Villa San Giovanni, which lies several kilometers north of the large city of Reggio Calabria ; the ferries hold the cars ( carriages ) of the mainline train service between Palermo and Naples.

Uldin, a prince of the Huns, appeared on the Danube about this time and advanced into Thrace, but he was deserted by many of his followers, who joined with the Romans in driving their king back north of the river.

A major problem in determining whether the Cimbri were speaking a Celtic or a Germanic language is that at this time the Greeks and Romans tended to refer to all groups to the north of their sphere of influence as Gauls, Celts, or Germani rather indiscriminately.

In the north, the Romans, with their northern sea flank secured by their naval victory at Battle of Mylae, advanced toward Thermae.

The Romans also moved in the north by marching across the northern coast toward Panormus, but were not able to take the city.

The Romans, however, made great progress in the north.

The native peoples whom the Romans met at the time of their invasion in what is now known as Spain were the Iberians, inhabiting an area stretching from the southwest part of the Peninsula through the northeast part of it, and then the Celts, mostly inhabiting the north and northwest part of the Peninsula.

Rivalry between him and Arminius, the Cheruscan leader who inflicted the devastating defeat at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest on the Romans under Publius Quinctilius Varus in 9 AD, prevented a concerted attack on Roman territory across the Rhine in the north ( by Arminius ) and in the Danube basin in the south ( by Maroboduus ).

It has been suggested that Cruthin was a name used to refer to all the Britons who were not conquered by the Romans ; those who lived outside Roman Britannia, north of Hadrian's Wall.

Northern Gaul was held by the Romans along a line from north of Cologne to the coast at Boulogne through what is today southern Belgium until 460.

In his Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar distinguishes among three ethnic groups in Gaul: the Belgae in the north ( roughly between Rhine and Seine ), the Celts in the center and in Armorica, and the Aquitani in the southwest, the southeast being already colonized by the Romans.

The Romans managed to set up a fortified night camp, and the next morning broke out into the open country north of the Wiehen Hills, near the modern town of Ostercappeln.

Earlier, the Classical Romans interacted with ( and later conquered ) parts of Mauretania, a state that covered northern portions of modern Morocco and much of north western and central Algeria during the classical period.

* The Romans, allied with the Goths, arrive in the north of the Roman Empire to protect the Danube frontier.

Caratacus himself escaped, and fled north to the lands of the Brigantes ( modern Yorkshire ) where the Brigantian queen, Cartimandua, handed him over to the Romans in chains.

Before the coming of the Romans ( c. 200 BC ), the Taurisci dwelt in the north of Carniola, the Pannonians in the southeast, the Iapodes or Carni, a Celtic tribe, in the southwest.

In 15 BC, the Romans fortified the frontier city they called Vindobona to guard the empire against Germanic tribes to the north.

The created civitas was the only walled-town in the entire north west region of Roman Britain, and for this reason it is reasonable to assume that the settlement did exist and served as a tribal centre for the Carvetii before Roman occupancy, following the pattern of other civitates made by the Romans.

* The Romans send an embassy to Hasdrubal and conclude a treaty which prohibits him from waging war north of the river Ebro, but allowing him a free hand to the south even at the expense of the interests of the town of Massilia.

The Romans decide to parcel out land north of Rome ( the Ager Gallicus ) into small holdings for its poorer citizens whose farms have fallen into ruin during the First Punic War.

The Romans also move in the north by marching across the northern coast toward Panormus, but are not able to take the city.

To help defeat the Samnites, the Romans make alliances with the peoples of Central Italy to the north of Samnium and with the Apulians to the southeast.

The river Segre, known to Romans and Greeks as Sicoris, and to the Arabs of Al-Andalus as Nahr az-Zaytūn ( نهر الزيتون-River of Olives ) has its sources on the north face of the Pic del Segre or Puigmal de Segre (" Segre's Peak ") in the French department Pyrénées-Orientales ( historically the comarca of Alta Cerdanya ), in the Catalan Pyrenees.

Signs of occupation included a good deal of Roman material, including pottery, bronzes and brooches, potentially reflecting a trading relationship between the Votadini and the Romans beginning with Agricola's foray north in AD 80, and continuing through to the establishment of the Antonine Wall around AD 140, when the Romans temporarily established themselves nearby at Cramond.