Geopolitical and Social Significance of the Magna Graecia Development – From Yesterday to Today (part B)

t this point, we will proceed to mention some specific characteristics of the ancient Greek world contained in Greater Greece. Magna Graecia and Sicily, as well as Mother Greece, have had a common culture and a spiritual bond for many millennia, ever since the ancient Greek history. The ancient Pelasgians inhabited both these areas of the Mediterranean in ancient times. This is confirmed archaeologically by the Cyclopean walls that have been found in several areas in both Magna Graecia and Mother Greece. The ancient Minoans made several colonies especially in Apulia and Sicily. The Mycenaeans built several small villages as trading posts for their ships to the South. The colonization of the archaic and classical periods ensued, with the establishment of more than 80 cities. Many would move from the Peloponnese and Achaia, so that this area in Sicily, facing the island of Corfu, to this day retains the name of Achaean Coast (Costa delli Achai). The expansion of the ancient Greeks was facilitated by ships, as early as the 7th century BC, even in the ancient Greek city of Antivaris and the city of King Cadmus, the well-known Tivat of today’s Montenegro and Dubrovnik and Cavtat (Epidauros) in Croatia (History, 1926).