The Rise of Marseilles: France's Oldest City
The Ancients
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The Battle of the Sardinians Sea
The battle of the sardinians sea may have signalled a shift in importance from greek traders plying the tranian sea to etruscan and carthaginian traders. The town of alalia, or modern alaria, on corsica, was founded by a group of pacians who had left their homeland in a fairly rough period. A second wave of emigrants came from facaia and settled in alalia after they started raiding the shipping lanes of the tyranian sea. There was a lot of piracy in the central mediterranean, so they must have been doing something very obnoxious to get notice - an allied fleet had to come and put them down.
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