Sybaris (second foundation)

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Sybaris (Greek: Σύβαρις) was the name applied to a city founded by refugees from the famous city of Sybaris, and later Thurii, in Magna Graecia in around 440 BCE. The second Sybaris was founded about 25 km south from the original, near the coast, along the Traeis river (modern Trionto). The city did not long exist before being destroyed and its population dispersed by the neighboring barbarians. (Diod. xii. 11, 22; Arist. Pol. v. 3.) Its site is near the modern town and comune of Crosia.

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• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1856).
• Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), Map 46.