One-page business plans Jan 14, 2009 02:37:47 by Betsy Talbot, Seattle Women & Business Examiner Maria Marsala of Elevatingyourbusiness.com is hosting a lunch workshop on Wednesday, January 14 on ...View Full Article
students head to inaugurati... Jan 13, 2009 02:48:54 BY HANNAH SAMPSON The students in Nicole Marsala's history class tracked the recent presidential election with intense interest. They knew that som...
Restaurant critic review: H... Jan 13, 2009 02:48:54 The beef tenderloin Marsala ($25.95) was equally good, with the bonus of that sweet Marsala sauce to brighten things up. We loved that instead of b...
Plated: Ortine's Mushroom L... Jan 13, 2009 02:48:54 A lot of different mushrooms are made into a ragu with a little tomato and some Marsala wine. The ragu is layered in a baking dish with homemade mo...
Marsala occupies the site of Lilybaeum, the principal stronghold of the Carthaginians in Sicily, founded by Himilco in 396 BC after the abandonment of Motya. Neither Pyrrhus nor the Romans were able to reduce it by siege, but it was surrendered to the latter in 241 BC at the end of the First Punic War. In the later wars it was a starting point for the Romanexpeditions against Carthage, and under Roman rule it enjoyed considerable prosperity. It obtained municipal rights from Augustus and became a colony under either Pertinax or Septimius Severus.
The Saracens gave it its present name "Marsala" which is deriving from the Arab "MarsaAllah" (port of Allah) or "Marsa Ali" ("port of Ali" intended also as "great port" as Ali in Arabian language is synonymous of "great" and the ancient harbour of Lylibaeum was enormous).
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