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Encyclopedia Britannica



MOTYA

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 931 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOS-NAN
MOTYA , an ancient Phoenician
settlement
  in Sicily, on a low
island
  [mod. S. Pantaleo], 5 M. north of Lilybaeum [mod. Marsala]. It was the centre of the Phoenician
trade
  in Sicily. It was accessible from the mainland by a mole, which is still used as a track for wagons. The line of the city
wall
 , of rough rectangular blocks of stone without mortar, may still be traced all round the
coast
 , with two
gates
 , one on the north towards the mole, which is still in
part
  preserved, and one on the
south
 . The date of its foundation is uncertain. In 398 B.C. it was taken after a desperate struggle (which, owing to the height and strength of the houses, continued even after a breach had been made in the city
wall
 ) by
Dionysius
  of Syracuse, but recovered in the next year: it was, however, abandoned by the Carthaginians, and its place taken by Lilybaeum on the mainland. (T. As.)


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