Caronia

Coordinates: 38°01′N 14°26′E / 38.017°N 14.433°E / 38.017; 14.433
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Caronia
Καλάκτα
Comune di Caronia
Coat of arms of Caronia
Location of Caronia
Map
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
98072
Dialing code0921
Patron saintSaint Blaise
Saint dayFebruary 3
WebsiteOfficial website

Caronia (

Diod. et al.), Latin: Calacte or Cale Acte) is a town and comune on the north coast of Sicily, in the province of Messina, about half way between Tyndaris (modern Tindari) and Cephaloedium (modern Cefalù
). The town has 3,555 inhabitants.

History

Siculi, especially from Archonides, dynast of Herbita, according to Diodorus Siculus founded a city on the coast, which was called Kalè Akté (The Fair Shore or Beautiful Coast).[4] The date given by Diodorus is 446 BC, but in another passus the same author says that Ducetius colonised Kale Akte in 440 BC, the same year he died. In addition, recent excavations at Caronia, which is clearly the site of the Hellenistic and Roman town Kale Akte, have revealed only very sparse remains from the 5th century BC, and show that a Sikel settlement already existed here in the early 5th century BC.[5]
It is possible that Ducetius founded the colony on the site of this already existing Sikel settlement, just as he had done at Menai and Paliké.

Some scholars have hypothesised that Ducetius returned without the consent of Syracuse,[6] but this is very improbable.[7] He must have had the permission of Syracuse to end the exile at Corinth (the mother city of Syracuse), and he brought according to Diodorus partly Corinthian settlers for the colonising project at Kale Akte. Syracuse would have had an interest of establishing an allied Sikel-Greek colony on the north coast, without risking too much in a potentially hostile Sikel-dominated area.[8]

There are little subsequent account of its fortunes. It appears to have been in

Cluverius, who visited Caronia, speaks with admiration of the beauty and pleasantness of this part of the coast, littoris excellens amoenitas et pulchritudo, which rendered it fully worthy of its ancient name.[11]

The Greek rhetorician

Caecilius of Caleacte, who flourished in the time of Augustus, was a native of Caleacte, whence he derived the surname of Calactinus.[12]

In 2004–2005 and 2014 two

better source needed] In 2008 investigators concluded that the 2004–2005 fires were caused by arson.[17] Mysterious fires again occurred in mid-2014.[18] On March 5, 2015 police arrested and charged Giuseppe Pezzino, 26, with arson, conspiracy to commit fraud, and sounding a false alarm in association with the mysterious fires. His father, Antonino Pezzino, has also been implicated. The Italian military police had installed hidden cameras in the streets after the fires started again (July 2014). Video captured about 40 incidents implicating Giuseppe (and occasionally, Antonino). Further evidence was gathered by phone taps. [19] [20]

References

  1. ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. ^ Herodotus vi. 22, 23.
  4. ^ Diod. xii. 8, 2.
  5. ^ Lentini M C - Lindhagen, A - Göransson, K 'Excavations at Sicilian Caronia, ancient Kale Akte', Opuscula Romana 21, 2002, 79-108; Lindhagen, A, Caleacte. production and exchange in a North Sicilian town c. 500 BC-AD 500, diss., University of Lund 2006.
  6. ^ Adameșteanu, D, 'L'ellenizzazione della Sicilia ed il momento di Ducezio', Kokalos 8, 1962, 190-196.
  7. ^ Rizzo, F P, La repubblica di Siracusa nel momento di Ducezio, Palermo 1970.
  8. ^ Rizzo 1970; Lindhagen 2006.
  9. ^ Cicero In Verrem iii. 4. 3, ad Fam. xiii. 37.
  10. ^ xiv. 251.
  11. ^ Cluver. Sicil. p. 291; Tommaso Fazello i. p. 383; Tab. Peut.; Itin. Ant. p. 92; where the numbers, however, are certainly corrupt.
  12. ^ Athen. vi. p. 272.
  13. ^ "Canneto di Caronia (Me): gli incendi? Opera degli uomini" [Caronia (Me): fires? Opera men]. ecodisicilia.com (webpage) (in Italian). 12 June 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-09-19. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  14. ^ "A Decade of Mysterious Fires in a Sicilian Village". The Atavist Magazine. 2016-11-15. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  15. ^ "Setter of Sicily mystery fires arrested - English". ANSA.it. 2015-03-05. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  16. ^ Top 15 Bizarre True Stories, "13. Fiery Persecution", listverse.com
  17. ^ "Canneto di Caronia (Me): gli incendi? Opera degli uomini" [Caronia (Me): fires? Opera men]. ecodisicilia.com (webpage) (in Italian). 12 June 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-09-19. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  18. ^ "Mysterious Spontaneous Combustions Return to Sicilian City | Mysterious Universe".
  19. ^ "A Decade of Mysterious Fires in a Sicilian Village". The Atavist Magazine. 2016-11-15. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
  20. ^ "Setter of Sicily mystery fires arrested - English". ANSA.it. 2015-03-05. Retrieved 2016-12-18.

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