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3 unusual facts about Gela


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Under Agathocles (317-289 BC) the city suffered again for internal strife between the general population and the aristocrats.

Siege of Motya

Dionysius, who had obtained his power by condemning and executing his fellow Greek generals, faced discontent among the Greeks after he had evacuated both Gela and Camarina after the Battle of Gela in 405 BC.

The Greek cities of Selinus, Akragas, Gela and Camarina (Greeks were allowed to return to these cities) became tributary to Carthage.


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Congress of Gela

Syracuse, which led an alliance including Locris, Gela, and other cities, regained the initiative by 425 BC, recaptured Messina, and threatened several of Athens' allies.

Deinomenes

The historian Herodotus writes that his ancestors came from the island of Telos in the Aegean Sea and were the founders of the city of Gela in southern Sicily.

Don Whitehead

He covered the Allied invasion of Sicily at Gela, with the First Infantry Division.

Gelon

Gelo, tyrant of Gela and Syracuse in the 5th century BC

Karesuvanto

Karesuando/Karesuvanto is the northernmost point on the major European route E45 to Gela in Italy and a stop on the European route E8 from Tromsø to Turku.

South Wraxall Manor

John Taylor (bass player with the band Duran Duran) and his wife Gela Nash (founder of Juicy Couture) purchased the house in 2005 and live there when Taylor's band is working in England.

The Sun of the Sleepless

The film is about a doctor named Gela Bendeliani (Elgudzha Burduli) and his wealthless family in Tbilisi in Soviet Georgia.


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