defeat of the Sicels at the Battle of Nomae in 450 BC and the death of Sicel leader Ducetius in 440 BC, the Sicel state broke down and the Sicel culture merged...

Siculian (or Sicel) is an extinct Indo-European language spoken in central and eastern Sicily by the Sicels. It is attested in fewer than thirty inscriptions...

move across eastward. The Sicels were the next to arrive, from mainland Italy, and settled in the east. The arrival of the Sicels is thought to have occurred...

married into each other's families, thus creating a united front against the Sicels and Ionian Greeks of Sicily. To counter this Doric threat, the Greek Anaxilas...

the native Sicilians (Sicels), is now attacked by a second Carthaginian expedition. He is forced to ally himself with the Sicels. The Carthaginian army...

the most populous island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is named after the Sicels, who inhabited the eastern part of the island during the Iron Age. Sicily...

of ancient Rome). They also influenced the native peoples, such as the Sicels and the Oenotrians, who became hellenised after they adopted the Greek culture...

likely, but not certainly, a sister group to Hellenic. Sicel: an ancient language spoken by the Sicels (Greek Sikeloi, Latin Siculi), one of the three indigenous...

historian, the Elymians would also have contributed to the formation of the Sicels. Today the thesis for an Italic origin of the Elymians is the most accredited...

Adranus or Adranos (Ancient Greek: Ἀδρανός) was a fire god worshipped by the Sicels, an ancient population of the island of Sicily. His worship occurred all...

united Sicel army under the command of Ducetius and a Greek army of Syracuse. Ducetius was defeated and his Sicel state broke up soon after. The Sicels were...

According to Servius it was originally a settlement of the Sicels, founded by the Sicel Clitemnestrus. The etymology of the name is unclear and may reflect...

throughout the peninsula (such as the Latino-Faliscans, the Osco-Umbrians, the Sicels and the Veneti), and a significant number of Greeks in Southern Italy and...

(Ancient Greek: Δουκέτιος) (died 440 BCE) was a Hellenized leader of the Sicels and founder of a united Sicilian state and numerous cities. It is thought...

near Reate (an ancient Sabine town) upon Latium, where they expelled the Sicels and subsequently settled down as Latini under a King Latinus. The most generally...

the Sicels. Dionysius attacked the Sicels and took Smeneous (exact location unknown) and Morgantina, around which the Punic city Solus and Sicel city...

(sg.: comune) in the province. It was first settled by Italic tribe the Sicels and Vibo Valentia was established as a city in the 6th or 7th century, known...

tight while the Sicels began to harass the Punic supply train and foragers. Constant ambushes and skirmishing followed, and the Sicels, operating in their...

describes one of the larger prehistoric groups living in Sicily (the Italic Sicels or Siculi) before the arrival of Greeks in the 8th century BC (see below)...

word Italói, a term with which the ancient Greeks designated a tribe of Sicels who had crossed the Strait of Messina and who inhabited the extreme tip...

never penetrated far inland. They had traded with the Elymians, Sicani and Sicels and had ultimately withdrawn without resistance to Motya, Panormus and Soluntum...

known to the ancient Greek writers as the Elymians, the Sicanians, and the Sicels, the last being an Indo-European-speaking people of possible Italic affiliation...

usually reckoned as Alashiya, but other proposals include Magna Graecia, the Sicels, the Aeolians and Carthage. Tarshish Tarshish, though its location has been...

Cynisca, Greek princess of Sparta Ducetius, a Hellenized leader of the Sicels and founder of a united Sicilian state Ezra, Jewish scribe and priest (b...

between Syracuse+friends and the Sicels 449 Delphi declares independence from Phocis 449 Ducetius abandons the Sicel Federation he created and is forced...

Indo-European speakers (Italic peoples such as Latins, Umbrians, Samnites, Oscans, Sicels and Adriatic Veneti, as well as Celts, Iapygians and Greeks) and pre-Indo-European...

Caraceni Caudini Hirpini Others: Aequi Fidenates Hernici Picentes Vestini Sicels Venetics Ligures Sardinians Greek colonies in Magna Graecia Phoenician settlements...

- Latium Sicels Prisci Latini (Old Latins) (according to tradition and legend they were formed by the merger of Aborigines and Latium Sicels) Latini (Latins...

and Mago time to further incite the Sicels. The Carthaginians chose to attack central Sicily, probably the Sicels allied with Dionysius, which led to...

the origin of the people. They have sometimes been identified with the Sicels of Sicily, who are also linked to Shekelesh: another exonym attributed to...