Sikelia - Classical Greek name for Sicily, based on name of "Si'Keloi" (Sicels).īeginning around 800 BC (BCE), following several centuries of sporadic contact Sicels - Also Sikels from Greek "Si'Keloi," Italic peopleĪrriving in eastern Sicily circa 1200 BC. Siceliots - Greek colonists of Sicily and their descendants. Origins identified from 2000-1600 BC following Proto-Sicanian cultures. (Italian "selce") found in valleys they inhabited. Sicanian - Native people of Sicily, from "sika" for chalcedony Sicily and particularly the Sicanian Mountains. Sicania - The "Sikania" of Homer's Odyssey, referring to (8000 BC), before the Holocene (present epoch). ![]() Pleistocene Epoch - Geological era ending ten thousand years ago Phoenician - Semitic language of ancient Phoenicians. Neolithic - literally the "New Stone Age" immediately preceding Mycenean - Late Bronze Age civilization of ancient Peloponnese contemporary to Late Minoan (Cretan) development. Minoan - Aegean civilization of ancient Crete, from 4000 BC to 1100 ![]() Middle Minoan - Minoan (Cretan) civilization from 2100 BC to 1550 Late Minoan - Minoan (Cretan) civilization from 1550 BC to 1100 BC. Late Bronze Age - In Sicily the era from about 1270 BC until circa 650 BC, immediately prior to Iron Age introduced by Greeks. Iron Age - Era of tools made from iron, beginning around 1200 BC, in Greece around 1100 BC, in Sicily probably with Greeks circa 700 BC. Indo-European - Many societies of Europe, southern Asia and southwestĪsia, identifiable by 1000 BC based on linguistic similarities. Also B.C.E., before the "common" era.īronze Age - Era of first tools and weapons made from copper and bronze, in Greeceīeginning around 3000 BC, prior to Iron Age.Ĭhalcedony - Mineral formations of quartz and similar substances, formerly used toĬopper Age - Earliest period of the Bronze Age, varying by region, before copper was alloyed with tin to form bronze for tools and weapons.Įarly Minoan - Minoan (Cretan) civilization from 4000 BC to 2100 Before the traditional birth of Jesus Christ. This site better viewed with JavaScript or Scriptingī.C. Dedicated to Sicilian art, culture, history, people, places and all things ![]() Sicilian Peoples: The Ancient Greeks - Best of Sicily Magazine - Greek Sicily, Hellenic Society in Sicily.
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