734 – 732 BC ).

The protohistoric Early Iron Age appears to have established itself in South India by at least as early as 1200 BC, if not earlier ( Possehl 1990 ; Deraniyagala 1992: 734 ).

Syracuse was founded in 734 or 733 BC by Greek settlers from Corinth and Tenea, led by the oecist ( colonizer ) Archias, who called it Sirako, referring to a nearby salt marsh.

During 734 BC the Phoenicians, a sea trading peoples from the north of ancient Canaan, built a small settlement on the natural habour of Palermo.

* 734 BC: Syracuse ( Sicily ) was founded as a colony by Corinth

* 734 BC — Syracuse founded in Sicily as a joint colony of Corinth and Tenea, under the leadership of Archias of Corinth.

The city was also besieged by Benhadad ( 1 Kings 15: 20 ) and by Tiglath-pileser ( 2 Kings 15: 29 ) about 734 BC.

A series of fifteen neo to late Babylonian Chronicles have been recovered which narrate the period spanning Nabû-nasir ( 747 – 734 BC ) to Seleucus III Ceraunus ( 243 – 223 BC ) and were derived from the political events described in astronomical diaries kept by astrologers.

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Taormina's area was inhabited by the Siculi even before the Greeks arrived on the Sicilian coast in 734 BC to found a town called Naxos.

The early Eretrian settlement at Kerkyra was displaced by colonists from Corinth in 734 BC.

) Scymnus Chius follows a different tradition, as he describes the establishment of the Chalcidians at Naxos and that of the Megarians at Hybla as contemporary, and both preceding the foundation of Syracuse, 734 BC.

Founded by Thucles the Chalcidian in 734 BC, Naxos was never a powerful city, but its temple of Apollo Archegetes, protecting deity of all the Greek colonies, gave it prominence in religious affairs.

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Corinthians and Teneans in 734 or 733 BC under the leadership of Archias established the joint colony of Syracuse in Sicily, the homeland of Archimedes.

Category: 734 BC disestablishments in Syria

* Nabonassar ( Nabonassáros ): 747 – 734 BC

Historical records start with the Phoenicians, who established colonies in the 11th century BCE, and especially with the Greeks, who founded the colony of Syracuse, which eventually became the largest Greek city, in 734 BCE.

John Pezza, 69, of 734 Hartford Avenue, Providence, complained of shoulder pains after an accident in which a car he was driving collided with a car driven by Antonio Giorgio, 25, of 12 DeSoto St., Providence, on Greenville Avenue and Cherry Hill Road in Johnston yesterday.

His last surviving work is a letter to Ecgbert of York, a former student, written in 734.

Bede hoped to visit Ecgbert again in 734, but was too ill to make the journey.

Between 734 and 727 Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria conducted almost annual campaigns in Palestine, reducing Israel, Judah and the Philistine cities to vassalage, receiving tribute from Ammon, Moab and Edom, and absorbing Damascus ( the kingdom of Aram ) into the Assyrian empire.

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The mean SAT scores of admitted students by section were 734 for verbal, 740 for math, and 744 for writing.

He holds the franchise record in strikeouts with 734.

Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe ( Oxford University Press ; 2010 ); 734 pages ; Examines the migrations, trade, and other phenomena that shaped a recognizable entity of Europe in the first millennium.

One of the firms printing these notes submitted an invoice for the work to the Reichsbank for 32, 776, 899, 763, 734, 490, 417. 05 ( 3. 28 × 10 < sup > 19 </ sup >, or 33 quintillion ) Marks.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 2 171 000 in 2010, compared to only 734 000 in 1950.

To reduce the visibility of interference between the chrominance signal and FM sound carrier required a slight reduction of the frame rate from 30 frames per second to 30 / 1. 001 ( approximately 29. 97 ) frames per second, and changing the line frequency from 15, 750 Hz to 15, 750 / 1. 001 Hz ( approximately 15, 734. 26 Hz ).

In the 1992 elections the Natural Law Party won 1, 734 votes ( 0. 06 %), and in the 1999 elections, won 2, 924 votes ( 0. 09 %), both below the then 1. 5 % electoral threshold required to enter the Knesset.

There are around 100, 000 ( 2004 ) main line telephones in use, but as of 2007 734, 800 mobile phones.

The 2010 census put Shanghai's total population at 23, 019, 148, a growth of 37. 53 % from 16, 737, 734 in 2000.

He was implicated during the Peloponnesian War in the mutilation of the Herms on the eve of the departure of the Athenian expedition against Sicily in 415 BC.

* In 406 BC, after years of defeats in the wake of the annihilation of their vast invasion force in Sicily, the Athenians at last won a naval victory at Arginusae over the Spartans.

Agathocles ( 361 – 289 BC ), ( Greek name Ἀγαθοκλῆς ( Agathokles ): derived from αγαθός ( agathos ) good and κλέος ( kleos ) glory ), was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse ( 317 – 289 BC ) and king of Sicily ( 304 – 289 BC ).

After several victories he was at last completely defeated ( 307 BC ) and fled secretly to Sicily.

After concluding peace with Carthage in 306 BC, Agathocles styled himself king of Sicily in 304 BC, and established his rule over the Greek cities of the island more firmly than ever.

Aeschylus travelled to Sicily once or twice in the 470s BC, having been invited by Hiero I of Syracuse, a major Greek city on the eastern side of the island ; and during one of these trips he produced The Women of Aetna ( in honor of the city founded by Hieron ) and restaged his Persians.

In 458 BC, he returned to Sicily for the last time, visiting the city of Gela where he died in 456 or 455 BC.

Some scholars argue Plato drew upon memories of past events such as the Thera eruption or the Trojan War, while others insist that he took inspiration from contemporary events like the destruction of Helike in 373 BC or the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily in 415 – 413 BC.

The weapon was soon after employed against Motya ( 397 BC ), a key Carthaginian stronghold in Sicily.

The weapon was soon after employed against Motya ( 397 BC ), a key Carthaginian stronghold in Sicily.

In 288 BC, the Mamertines — a group of Italian ( Campanian ) mercenaries originally hired by Agathocles of Syracuse — occupied the city of Messana ( modern Messina ) in the northeastern tip of Sicily, killing all the men and taking the women as their wives.

The land war in Sicily began with the Roman landing at Messana in 264 BC.

At this point ( 247 BC ), Carthage sent general Hamilcar Barca ( Hannibal's father ) to Sicily.

Perhaps in response to Hamilcar's raids, Rome did build another fleet paid for with donations from wealthy citizens and it was that fleet which rendered the Carthaginian success in Sicily futile, as the stalemate Hamilcar produced in Sicily became irrelevant following the Roman naval victory at the Battle of the Aegates Islands in 241 BC, where the new Roman fleet under consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus was victorious over an undermanned and hastily built Carthaginian fleet.

* 262 BC: Roman intervention in Sicily.

* 248 BC: Beginning of a period of low intensity fighting in Sicily, without naval battles.

Archimedes ( 287-212 BC ), of Syracuse, Sicily, when it was a Greek city-state, is often considered to be the greatest of the Greek mathematicians, and occasionally even named as one of the three greatest of all time ( along with Isaac Newton and Carl Friedrich Gauss ).

The Romans then mounted two sieges of Capua, which fell in 211 BC, and completed their conquest of Syracuse and destruction of the Carthaginian army in Sicily.

In 415 BC, Athens dispatched a massive expeditionary force to attack Syracuse in Sicily ; the attack failed disastrously, with the destruction of the entire force, in 413 BC.