Selinus, an ancient Greek colony in the western end of Sicily, now represented by ruins close to the modern Castelvetrano. It was founded by Dorians about 628 B.C., conquered by the Carthaginians in 409, and utterly destroyed by them in 249, the inhabitants being deported. The most notable ruins still extant are six great Doric temples.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 307
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