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Philip of Sicily. Philip (1255/56 – 1277), of the Capetian House of Anjou, was the second son of King Charles I of Sicily and Countess Beatrice of Provence. He was at various times set up to become King of Sardinia, Prince of Achaea or King of Thessalonica, but ultimately ascended no throne.
List of Sicilian monarchs. Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Sicily (14th century). The monarchs of Sicily ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Sicily in 1130 until the "perfect fusion" in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1816. The origins of the Sicilian monarchy lie in the Norman conquest of southern Italy which occurred between the ...
The First Macedonian War (215–205) broke out when King Philip V pressed his ambitions in Illyria after he perceived a weakening of Roman power in the wake of Cannae. This compelled the Romans to stretch their already severely strained resources still further by sending troops to Greece.
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The Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC) was the second of three wars fought between Carthage and Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC. For 17 years the two states struggled for supremacy, primarily in Italy and Iberia, but also on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia and, towards the end of the war, in North ...
- Spring 218 – 201 BC (17 years)
- Roman victory
- Western Mediterranean
- Roman conquest of Carthaginian Iberia, Carthaginian African territories reduced
Oct 29, 2009 · 8 Incredible Roman Technologies. First Punic War (264-241 B.C.) In 264 B.C., Rome decided to intervene in a dispute on the western coast of the island of Sicily (then a Carthaginian province)...
Oct 14, 2009 · Updated: September 22, 2023 | Original: October 14, 2009. Beginning in the eighth century B.C., Ancient Rome grew from a small town on central Italy’s Tiber River into an empire that at its peak...
211 BCE~ 410 CE: Roman. Sicily becomes first province of Rome, whose governors steal everything moveable. Romans cut down the trees to plant wheat, but wheat economy dries out the climate, requires large estates, sows social misery (slave revolts) & in the distant future, the Mafia. Arrival of Christianity.
