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Colonization | Phoenicians, Poeni
(Μοτύα, Μοτύη; Motýa, Motýē). Phoenician-Carthaginian settlement on an island (c. 45 ha) in the lagoon 8 km to the north of Marsala, modern Mozia on San Pantaleo. With Solus and Panormus, M. was the last fortress held by the Phoenicians in their retreat from the Greeks in western Sicily (Thuc. 6,2,6; own coins inscribed in Greek and Phoenician in the 5th and 4th cents. BC: HN 157f.) and was conquered and destroyed by Dionysius [1] in 397 BC (Diod. 14,47-53), in the following year regai…