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Sicily and the Making of the Greek Mediterranean
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The Origins of Greek Colonization in the Central Mediterranean
There is next to no evidence for a substantial Greek or Phoenician presence before they started to build those colonies. The first new arrivals to Sicily and the Iron Age weren't actually Greeks or Phoenicians at all. They were probably collabrians, speakers of an Indo-European and probably italic language from southern Italy. These people crossed the narrow straits to settle mostly in the eastern parts of the island.
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