Drepana
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| Drepana | |
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| Drepana (modern-day Trapani) | |
 Drepana
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| Coordinates: 38°01′N 12°31′E / 38.017°N 12.517°E | |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Sicily |
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| Elevation | 3 m (10 ft) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
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Drepana (Latin: Drepanum; Greek: Drepanon, sing., Drepana, pl.), a harbour-town on the west-coast of Sicily, was the site of a crushing Roman defeat by the Carthaginians, in 249 BC.
The town, twenty-five miles north of Lilybaeum, had been fortified by the Carthaginians, who resettled part of the population to Eryx. In 241 it was besieged by Gaius Lutatius Catulus.[1] and later used as a naval base. It never achieved the status of a civitas in Roman times.
Today, the town is called Trapani.
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