The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location
Messina
- port
- medieval
The Sicilian port facing the strait toward Italy, a Norman naval base and embarkation point. Gibbon places it on the crossing between the mainland and the island kingdom.
- Type
- port
- Style
- medieval
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 254
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
The Sicilian port facing the strait toward Italy, a Norman naval base and embarkation point. Gibbon places it on the crossing between the mainland and the island kingdom.
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