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Naxos was the first Greek colony in Sicily, founded in 735 B.C. by the Chalcidians (‘Calcidesi’) who built a place which was symbolic of Magna Grecia, and which was decided to be the port of departure for the Sicilian Greeks on voyages to their motherland.
Naxos was razed to the ground by the Syracusans (‘Siracusani’) in 403 B.C., at the end of the war of the ‘Peloponnese’ in which it was allied to Athens.
In the Roman period, the territory continued to have a limited mercantile function, also post stations (and change of horses) along the Consular Road (‘Strada Consolare’) which connected Messina and Syracuse.