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City on the eastern coast of Sicily (area
1).
According to Thucydides (Histories,
VI, 3), Naxos was the first Greek settlement in Sicily. It was founded in
734 by settlers coming from Chalcis in the island
of Euboea. From there, the Chalcidians later founded
the cities of Leontini (729) and Catania.