Tauromenium

The Greek colony of Tauromenium was founded by colonists from Naxos in 734 BCE, though the area is thought to have been inhabited by the Sikeloi prior to this. In 345 BCE its tyrant Andromachus offered to allow Timoleon to use it as a safe landing space in Sicily on his way to Syrakousai, an offer that would be repeated by a later tyrant named Tyndarion in 278 BCE to Pyrrhus of Epirus.