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- The Elymians (Latin: Elymī) were an ancient tribal people who inhabited the western part of Sicily during the Bronze Age and classical antiquity. According...
- Elymian is the extinct language of the ancient Elymian people of western Sicily. Its characteristics are little known because of the extremely limited...
- time of Phoenician and Gr**** colonization. The Sicani dwelt east of the Elymians and west of the Sicels, having, according to Diodorus Siculus, the boundary...
- Founded by Elymians, the city is still an important fishing port and the main gateway to the nearby Egadi Islands. Drepana was founded by the Elymians to serve...
- non-Indo-European or pre-Indo-European heritage include the Etruscans, the Elymians and Sicani of Sicily, and the prehistoric Sardinians, who gave birth to...
- the classification of their language remains uncertain. Conversely, the Elymian language is generally accepted to have been an Indo-European language,...
- of the major cities of the Elymians, one of the three indigenous peoples of Sicily. The other major cities of the Elymians were Eryx and Entella. It is...
- peoples, such as the Etruscans, Rhaetians, Camuni, Nuragics, Sicani, Elymians and the Ligures, and pre-Roman Indo-European-speaking peoples, like the...
- Celtic Dacian: possibly very close to Thracian Elymian: Poorly-attested language spoken by the Elymians, one of the three indigenous (i.e. pre-Gr**** and...
- three defined groups of the ancient peoples of Italy: the Sicani, the Elymians and the Sicels. The most prominent and by far the earliest of these were...