{"slug": "segesta", "label": "Segesta", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segesta", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692847", "qid": "Q692847", "description": "ancient city", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-453, -34], "span_label": ["454 BCE", "35 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}], "related": [{"slug": "sicily", "label": "Sicily", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "carthage", "label": "Carthage", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "syracuse-sicily", "label": "Syracuse, Sicily", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "slavery", "label": "Slavery", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pannonia", "label": "Pannonia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -453, "year_label": "454 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Hostilities between Segesta and Selinunte, two Greek cities on Sicily, take place over access to the Tyrrhenian Sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1302076125#Sicily", "title": "454 BC", "revid": 1302076125, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -415, "year_label": "416 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In Sicily, the Ionian city of Segesta asks for Athenian help from the Dorian city of Selinus (which is supported by the powerful Sicilian city of Syracuse). The people of Syracuse are ethnically Dorian (as are the Spartans), while the Athenians, and their allies in Sicily, are Ionian. The Athenians feel obliged to assist their ally and therefore prepare an armada to attack Sicily.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292484682#Greece", "title": "416 BC", "revid": 1292484682, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -306, "year_label": "307 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "After meeting disaster in Africa (losing his army and two of his sons), Agathocles returns to Sicily. In dire need of cash, he razes the city of Segesta.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359452513#Sicily", "title": "307 BC", "revid": 1359452513, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -259, "year_label": "260 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Roman advance continues westward from Agrigentum with their forces relieving the besieged cities of Segesta and Macella. These cities have sided with the Roman cause, and have come under Carthaginian attack for doing so.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325948890#Sicily", "title": "260 BC", "revid": 1325948890, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -103, "year_label": "104 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Second Servile War: Athenion starts a slave rebellion in Segesta (Sicily).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1305141071#Roman_Republic", "title": "104 BC", "revid": 1305141071, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -34, "year_label": "35 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Pannonia is attacked by Octavian Caesar, who conquers and sacks the stronghold Siscia (Sisak) of the Segestani, which is taken after a 30-day siege. The country is not definitely subdued, however, until 9 BC.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325862738#Roman_Republic", "title": "35 BC", "revid": 1325862738, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}]}