That country longed for Tunis so conveniently situated near sicily.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
"About as far as from here to sicily," explained Pan Tarkowski.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
On the southern coast of sicily, at the mouth of the Halycus, lay the city which the Greeks called Minoa or Heraclea-Minoa after Minos.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker