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Tyndaris was situated on a bold and lofty hill standing out as a promontory into the spacious bay of the Tyrrhenian Sea bounded by the Punta di Milazzo on the east, and the Capo Calavià on the west, and was distant according to the Itineraries 36 miles from Messana ( modern Messina ).
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Indeed the strong position of Tyndaris rendered it in a strategic point of view as important a post upon the Tyrrhenian, as Tauromenium was upon the Sicilian sea, and hence we find it frequently mentioned in subsequent wars.
The Roman fleet is described on that occasion as touching at the promontory of Tyndaris, but the city had not yet fallen into their hands, and it was not till after the fall of Panormus ( modern Palermo ), in 254 BCE, that Tyndaris expelled the Carthaginian garrison and joined the Roman alliance.
Tyndaris was also one of seventeen cities which had been selected by the Roman senate, apparently as an honorary distinction, to contribute to certain offerings to the temple of Venus at Eryx.
Pliny indeed mentions a great calamity which the city had sustained, when ( he tells us ) half of it was swallowed up by the sea, probably from an earthquake having caused the fall of part of the hill on which it stands, but we have no clue to the date of this event ; The Itineraries attest the existence of Tyndaris, apparently still as a considerable place, in the fourth century.
By the 19th century, the site of Tyndaris was wholly deserted, but the name was retained by a church, which crowned the most elevated point of the hill on which the city formerly stood, and was still called the Madonna di Tindaro.
Abacaenum (; ) was an ancient city of Sicily, situated about 6. 5 km from the north coast, between Tyndaris ( modern Tindari ) and Mylae ( modern Milazzo ), and 13 km from the former city.
Its territory originally included that of Tyndaris, which was separated from it by the elder Dionysius when he founded that city in 396 BCE.
Its decline was probably owing to the increasing prosperity of the neighbouring city of Tyndaris.
The Battle of Tyndaris was a naval battle of the First Punic War, which took place off Tyndaris ( modern Tindari ) in 257 BC.
Tyndaris was a Sicilian town founded as a Greek colony in 396 BC located on the high ground overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea in the Gulf of Patti.
Gaius Atilius Regulus ' fleet was anchored off Tyndaris when he observed the Carthaginian fleet sailing past and not in any formation.
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On that occasion he rested his position upon Tyndaris on the left, and on Tauromenium ( modern Taormina ) on the right.
et al., Latin: Calacte or Cale Acte ) is a town and comune on the north coast of Sicily, in the province of Messina, about half way between Tyndaris ( modern Tindari ) and Cephaloedium ( modern Cefalù ).
During the course of the war, Rome continued to be victorious at sea: victories at Sulci ( 258 BC ) and Tyndaris ( 257 BC ) were followed by the massive Battle of Cape Ecnomus, where the Roman fleet under the consuls Marcus Atilius Regulus and Lucius Manlius inflicted a severe defeat on the Carthaginians.
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These had at first been established by Dionysius at Messana, when he repeopled that city ; but the Spartans having taken umbrage at this, he transferred them to the site of Tyndaris, which had previously been included in the territory of Abacaenum.
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Tyndaris again bore a considerable part in the war between Sextus Pompeius and Octavian ( 36 BC ).
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The people of Rhegium planted here the exiles from Naxos and Catana in 395 BC as a counterpoise to Dionysius the Elder's foundation of Tyndaris ; but Dionysius soon took it.
The colonists themselves gave to their new city the name of Tyndaris, from their native divinities, the " Tyndaridae " or Dioscuri, and readily admitting fresh citizens from other quarters, soon raised their whole population to the number of 5000 citizens.
* August – Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, an admiral of Octavian Caesar, secures the Lipari Islands and harass the coast from Mylae to Tyndaris.
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* The Battle of Tyndaris is fought between the Roman fleet ( with Marcus Atilius Regulus in command ) and Carthaginian fleet off Tyndaris ( modern Tindari ) in Sicily.
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