Roman Sicily

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Roman Sicily was the first province of the Roman Republic, serving as a crucial grain supplier and strategic hub in the central Mediterranean.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Roman province
historical region
adminCenter Syracuse
borderedBy Ionian Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Tyrrhenian Sea
capital Lilybaeum
Syracuse
establishedAfter First Punic War
establishedBy Roman Republic
establishedInYear 241 BC
followedBy Byzantine Sicily
governedBy Roman Senate
praetor
importantCity Agrigentum
linked to: Akragas

Lilybaeum
Messana
Panormus
Syracuse
Tauromenium
influencedBy Greek culture
Roman law
integratedInto Roman provincial system
linked to: Roman provinces
involvedIn First Servile War
linked to: Second Servile War

Second Servile War
Servile Wars
linked to: Second Servile War
knownFor large grain estates
latifundia
language Greek
Latin
legalFramework Lex Hieronica
locatedIn Sicily
central Mediterranean
majorExport grain
olive oil
wine
partOf Roman Empire
Roman Republic
precededBy Sicily under Carthaginian control
Sicily under Greek city-states
primaryEconomicRole grain supplier to Rome
strategic naval base
religion Greek polytheism
Roman religion
significanceToRome first overseas province
socialIssue large slave population
slave uprisings
strategicFunction base for Roman operations against Carthage
control of sea routes between Italy and Africa
taxSystem tithe on grain (decuma)
timePeriod 3rd century BC to late antiquity

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Sicels eventuallyIntegratedInto Roman Sicily
Syracuse wasCapitalOf Sicily (Roman province)
linked to: Roman Sicily
Punic Sicily successor Roman Sicily
Panormus partOf Roman Sicily
Elymian absorbedInto Roman Sicily
Roman province of Sicilia reorganizedAs Sicily (Late Roman diocese)
linked to: Roman Sicily