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...adesmen around a natural harbour on the north-western coast of Sicily. The Phoenician name for the city may have been Zîz, but [[Greeks]] called it '''Panormus' Palermo remained a Phoenician city until the [[First Punic War]] ([[264 BC|264]]-[[241 BC]]), when Sicily

...r the name of ''Karalis'' it was one of a string of [[Phoenicia]]n trading colonies in [[Sardinia]], including [[Sulcis]], [[Nora, Italy|Nora]], and [[Tharros]

...[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]] in [[734 BC|734 BCE]]. Other important [[Greek colonies]] were [[Gela]], [[Agrigentum|Acragas]], [[Selinunte]], [[Himera]], and [[Z ...mainland, not far from the southwest corner of the region, and had its own colonies on Sicily. Palermo was a Carthaginian city, founded in the [[8th century BC