{"slug": "agrigento", "label": "Agrigento", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrigento", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13678", "qid": "Q13678", "description": "Italian comune in Sicily", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-487, 916], "span_label": ["488 BCE", "916 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "sicily", "label": "Sicily", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "syracuse-sicily", "label": "Syracuse, Sicily", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "gelo", "label": "Gelo", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-corinth", "label": "Ancient Corinth", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ducetius", "label": "Ducetius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "fatimid-caliphate", "label": "Fatimid Caliphate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tunisia", "label": "Tunisia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ifriqiya", "label": "Ifriqiya", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "emirate-of-sicily", "label": "Emirate of Sicily", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "berbers", "label": "Berbers", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "abdullah-al-mahdi-billah", "label": "Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "agathocles-of-syracuse", "label": "Agathocles of Syracuse", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -487, "year_label": "488 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Theron becomes tyrant of Acragas in Sicily.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372358766#Sicily", "title": "488 BC", "revid": 1372358766, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -479, "year_label": "480 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Greek city of Himera in Sicily, in its quarrel with Akragas, enlists Carthaginian support. With the help of Gelo, the tyrant of Syracusae, and Theron of Akragas, the Carthaginians are defeated in the Battle of Himera. After the defeat, Hamilcar kills himself.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342344662#Sicily", "title": "480 BC", "revid": 1342344662, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -449, "year_label": "450 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "After minor preliminary successes (including the capture of Inessa from its Greek colonists), Ducetius, a Hellenised leader of the Siculi, an ancient people of Sicily, is decisively defeated by the combined forces of Syracuse and Acragas. Ducetius flees to exile in Corinth.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172732#Sicily", "title": "450 BC", "revid": 1354172732, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -445, "year_label": "446 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Acragas declares war on Syracuse because of the return of Ducetius and is defeated by Syracuse in the Battle of the Himera River.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372038982#Sicily", "title": "446 BC", "revid": 1372038982, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -306, "year_label": "307 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Xenodocus, a general from Acragas, leads an army of 10,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry against Agathocles' generals on Sicily. Leptines and Demophilus, two of Agathocles' generals, oppose Xenoducus with 8,200 infantry and 1,200 cavalry. Xenoducus is defeated and retreats to Acragas. As a result of this defeat the people of Acragas give up the fight against Agathocles.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359452513#Sicily", "title": "307 BC", "revid": 1359452513, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": 916, "year_label": "916 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Sicilian Berbers in Agrigento revolt and depose the independent Emir Ahmed ibn Khorob. They offer Sicily to the Fatimid Caliphate in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia). Caliph Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah welcomes this turn of events, but refuses to grant the Berber rulers their autonomy. He sends a Fatimid expeditionary force under Abu Said Musa which lands in Sicily and, with some difficulty, takes control of the island. Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah appoints Salam ibn Rashid as the emir of Sicily. Ahmed ibn Khorob is dispatched to Raqqada and executed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352766259#Europe", "title": "916", "revid": 1352766259, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}]}