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Mozia
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Motya
- Ancient site.image
- Motya (8).jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Motya
- Ancient site.map_type
- Italy Sicily#Italy
- Ancient site.location
- Marsala, Sicily, Italy
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.condition
- In ruins
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Marsala
- Area
- 0.65
- Body of water
- Mediterranean Sea
- Official website
- www.isoladimozia.it
- Image
- Murs Mozia.jpg
- Significant event
- Siege of Motya
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- Commons category
- Mozia
- Commons gallery
- Mozia
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Names
- Location and site
- History
- Phoenician Period
- Carthaginian Period
- Siege of Motya
- Greek and Roman Periods
- Middle Ages
- Archaeology
- Motya Charioteer
- The earliest settlement
- The Kothon
- City walls
- House of mosaics
- In fiction
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- External links
right|thumb|Position of Motya thumb|350px|Temple of Baal thumb|250px|Plan and sites of Motya island
Motya was an ancient and powerful city on San Pantaleo Island off the west coast of Sicily, in the Stagnone Lagoon between Drepanum (modern Trapani) and Lilybaeum (modern Marsala). It is within the present-day commune of Marsala, Italy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mozia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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