1843 Meyer print CATANIA & MOUNT ETNA, SICILY, ITALY
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1843 Meyer print CATANIA & MOUNT ETNA, SICILY, ITALY Nice print titled Catanea und der Aetna , from steel engraving with fine detail and clear impression, nice hand coloring, approx. image size is 10 x 15 cm. Print was published in Germany in Meyer's Universum by Bibliographic Institute Hildburghausen. Click or image for larger version Catania, Latin Catana, or Catina, city, capital of Catania provincia, eastern Sicily, Italy, in the broad plain of Catania on the Ionian seacoast, south of Mount Etna. The city was founded in 729 BC by Chalcidians (settlers from Chalcis in the Greek island of Euboea) from Naxos, 50 miles (80 km) north. It acquired importance in the 5th century BC with Hieron I, tyrant of Syracuse, and his son Deinomenes, who conquered it and renamed it Aetna after the volcano. The inhabitants restored the old name after driving out Deinomenes' followers. One of the first Sicilian towns to fall to the Romans (263 BC), Catania was made a colony by Octavian (later the emperor Augustus). The Christians t suffered under the persecutions of the emperors Decius and Diocletian, and the Catanian martyrs included St. Agatha, patron saint of the city. After the barbarian invasions, Catania fell successively to the Byzantines, the Arabs, and the Normans. It was hostile to the Swabian emperors and was sacked by Henry VI and
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