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'''Drepana''' (Latin: '''Drepanum'''; Greek: '''Drepanon''', sing., ''Drepana'', pl.), a harbour-town on the west-coast of [[Sicily]], was the site of a crushing [[Battle of Drepana|Roman defeat]] by the [[Carthage|Carthaginians]], in [[249 BC]].
The town, twenty-five miles north of [[Lilybaeum]], had been fortified by the Carthaginians, who resettled part of the population to Eryx. In 242 it was taken by C. Lutatius Catulus and used as a naval base. It never achieved the status of a [[civitas]] in Roman times.
Today, the town is called [[Trapani]].
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