Casmenae
Ancient city · Italy
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 37.078, 14.831
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient settlement in Sicily
History
Casmenae or Kasmenai was an ancient Greek colony of Magna Graecia located on the Hyblaean Mountains, founded in 644 BC by the Syracusans at a strategic position for the control of central Sicily. It was also intended as a military forward-position on the Via Selinuntina road that connected Syracuse to Akragas - also on that road were Gela and Akrillai to Casmenae's west and Akrai to its east. Destroyed by the Romans in 212 BC, Casmenae was abandoned during the 3rd century BC and never inhabited again.