Sikanoi

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 Attributes: | +50% View Distance, +50% Lumberjack Output

The **Sikanoi** are a Sicilian faction located in central Sicily. They only occur in the Sicily-only sandbox of The Eagle King DLC.

Their neighbours are the Elymoi, Sikeloi, Syrakousai and Selinous.

The Sikanoi reuse the faction logo of the Volsci who don't appear in the Sicily-only setting, and they lack an in-game description tooltip.

### Starting Cities

* **Enna\*\*\***: Enna is an old city of the Sikeloi located high in the Sicilian interior mountains. It is said to have been the agreed-upon boundary between the Sikeloi and the Sikanoi, an earlier Sicilian people the Sikeloi pushed west when they came to Sicily.
* **Akragas+**: Established in the 6th century BCE by Greek colonists from Gela, Akragas sits on a plateau near the Hypsas and Akragas rivers. They initially lived under a series of tyrants. One of their most brutal tyrants, Phalaris, is famous for torturing his enemies to death by placing them within a hollow bronze bull statue and roasting them. He was eventually overthrown and fed to his own bull, and the series of tyrants rising and being overthrown continues until around 472 BCE, when the last tyrant Thrasydaeus reigned. Already having been thrown out of Himera for violent and arbitrary rule, he fared no better in Akragas, where a revolt established a democracy.
* **Entella-**: Entella is an ancient Elymoi and Sikanoi city on the banks of the river Hypsas. In 404 BCE, Campanian mercenaries allowed freely into the city would betray Entella, slaughter the entire male population, and make themselves rulers of the city.

**\*\*\***City belongs to the Sikeloi in the main sandbox.

**+**City belongs to Selinous in the main sandbox.

**-**City belongs to the Elymoi in the main sandbox.

### Strategy

With a surrounded territory in the center of the island and relatively weak faction bonuses, the Sikanoi are probably the most difficult faction to play as in the Sicily-only sandbox.

Your capital is located close to the Sikeloi, who you will likely have to deal with through warfare or diplomacy while still in the process of unifying your starting cities.

Selinous probably makes the most sense as a first target for expansion, as they lack the combat bonuses of the Elymoi and Sikeloi and aren't as large as Syrakousai. The exact best first target probably depends on random AI vs AI conquest and scripted events or objectives, and it will probably be necessary to use diplomacy to secure truces with some of the neighbours that you aren't currently trying to attack.

### Trivia & History

* The Sikanoi are arguably even more obscure in their origin than the Elymoi and Sikeloi, and are commonly believed to have settled in Sicily before the arrival of the latter 2 peoples. Theories regarding their origin vary wildly, with some ancient historians claiming that they originated from the Iberians in Spain, and some modern scholars suggesting a relation to the Illyrians.
* Like the Elymoi and Sikeloi, the Sikanoi were gradually absorbed by local Greek and Phoenician cultural influences from the nearby colonies. Little is known about their history specifically, but their area should have been a frontier between Carthage and Syrakousai during the Greco-Punic Wars, before being annexed by Rome following the First Punic War of 264-241 BC.