Naples - History
Channel: The Storyteller
Date: 2020-05-01

Naples - History
Naples has been inhabited since the Neolithic period. The earliest Greek settlements were established in the Naples area in the second millennium BC. Sailors from the Greek island of Rhodes established a small commercial port called Parthenope  on the island of Megaride in the ninth century BC. By the eighth century BC, the settlement had expanded to include Monte Echia. In the sixth century BC the city was refounded as Neápolis , eventually becoming one of the foremost cities of Magna Graecia.


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* Text taken from the English Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples
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