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Ancient city of Sicily, west of the modern city of Palermo. It was founded by the Elymi, an indigenous people gradually absorbed by Greek colonists. In the 5th century BC, Segesta was frequently in conflict with the neighbouring city of Selinus: the Segestans’ appeal to the Athenians for aid was one of the ostensible reasons for the Athenian attack (415 BC) on Syracuse, Selinus’s ally. In the First Punic War (264-241 BC), Segesta sided with the Romans. The site was abandoned in the Middle Ages.

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