Facts in brief:
Founded by Greeks from Chalcis; destroyed by Carthaginians 397 BC; was Roman free city 241 BC; taken by Goths, Byzantines, Arabs
(842), Crusader Richard I of England (1190); ruled by Angevins, Aragonese, then by Spanish Bourbons 13th cen.-1713.
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