CityofHimera

Founded by colonists from Mylae and bolstered by Syrakousian refugees, Himera is the largest Greek city on the north coast of Sicily, said by Thucydides to be the only free city-state on that coast. It would be the site of two major battles between the Sicilian Greeks and the Carthaginians, with the Greeks winning the first Battle of Himera, but the Carthaginians winning the second ninety years later. After the second battle, Himera would be destroyed utterly. Though it would never be rebuilt, its population would resettle at the nearby city of Thermae.