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Rhegion

Rhegion The ancient city of Rhegion was founded by Calcidians in the 730 b.c.

Thucydides wrote that before to found Rhegion, there was a consulting to the Delphi oracle, and then the Messenes, coming from Messene in the Peloponnesos partecipate to the foundation by order of Apollo and Artemis.

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