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Drepana
Sign in to saveDrepana () was an Elymian, Carthaginian, and Roman port in antiquity on the western coast of Sicily. It was the site of a crushing Roman defeat by the Carthaginians in 249BC. It eventually developed into the modern Italian city of Trapani.
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Drepana () was an Elymian, Carthaginian, and Roman port in antiquity on the western coast of Sicily. It was the site of a crushing Roman defeat by the Carthaginians in 249BC. It eventually developed into the modern Italian city of Trapani.
==Name== Drepana received its name from drépanon (), the Greek word for "sickle", because of the curving shape of its harbour. This was Latinized as Drepanum before being pluralized to its present form.
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