Marsala

n. seaport city in Sicily; Sicilian wine, dark sweet dessert wine made in Sicily

Marsala is a seaport city located in the Province of Trapani on the island of Sicily in Italy. The low coast on which it is situated is the westernmost point of the island. It is best known as the source of Marsala wine. 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 as a condition of the peace treaty. In the later wars it was a starting point for the Roman expeditions 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.
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Noun
1. dark sweet or semisweet dessert wine from Sicily
(hypernym) fortified wine

n. Marsala, seaport city in Sicily; Sicilian wine, dark sweet dessert wine made in Sicily

n. Marsala, Sicilian city; dark sweet dessert wine made in this area

n. Italian wine