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Gela

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Ge·la  (jlä)
A city of southern Sicily, Italy, on the Mediterranean Sea. Founded c. 688 b.c. by Greek colonists from Crete and Rhodes, it reached the height of its prosperity in the fifth century b.c. The dramatist Aeschylus lived here. Population: 77,300.


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An oligarchy is also changed into a tyranny; such was the rise of most of the ancient tyrannies in Sicily; at Leontini, into the tyranny of Panaetius; at Gela, into that of Cleander; at Rhegium into that of Anaxilaus; and the like in many other cities.
 
 
 
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