Lilibeum, Marsala

Lilibeum - an ancient city in the west of Sicily, today's Marsala.

It was founded by the Punic and Libyan inhabitants of the butterfly - a city completely destroyed during the war with Greeks with Agrigentum under the leadership of Tyran Syracuse Dionysios and in 397 BC From that time, he was under the rule of Carthage, acting as a strongly fortified institution, ensuring control of the Carthaginian state over Sicily. Dionysios and in 368 BC He attacked the Carthaginian estates again, but this time he failed to win and win the city. During the Epirus invasion, under the leadership of King Pyrrus in 277 B.C. It was the only city on the island that was not captured. During the First Punic War, he was besieged by the Romans, after the defeat of Carthage in the Battle of Egadzki Islands in 241 B.C. passed under the Romans. The city remained an important commercial and military center, it was the seat of one of the two issues stationed in Sicily.