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Manfredonia, Italy

Manfredonia, Italy

Manfredonia Italy

The area of current Manfredonia was settled in ancient times by the Greeks, founded by Diomedes. The flourishing Greek colony, having fallen into the hands of the Samnites, was retaken about 335 BC by King Alexander of Epirus, uncle of Alexander the Great. In 189 BC Sipontum was conquered by the Romans and became a colony of citizens. It was a port at the junction of the road which basically followed the Adriatic coast (but giving the Garganus mountain's peninsula just north a miss) and a road through Arpi, Luceria, Aecae and Aequum Tuticum connecting at Beneventum to the Via Appia. In AD 663 it was taken and destroyed by the Slavs (Narentines). In the 9th century, Sipontum was for a time in the power of the Saracens.
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Recommended airport
Gino Lisa (FOG)
Nearby destinations
  • Foggia a 36.50 km
  • San Giovanni Rotondo a 17.16 km
  • Rodi Garganico a 32.91 km