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Solunto
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Solunto is Soluntum, the Greek Soloeis, one of the three strongholds to which, as the historian Thucydides reports, the Phoenicians of Sicily withdrew when the Greeks arrived, together with Motya and Panormus. After a war with Dionysius of Syracuse its people moved up onto Monte Catalfano, where the grid of their Hellenistic town with its colonnaded houses can still be walked. It sided with Rome in 254 BC and was abandoned around the end of the second century AD.