S.S.D. Marsala Calcio S.S.D. Marsala Calcio Società Sportiva Dilettantistica Marsala Calcio is an Italian association football club based in the city of Marsala, Sicily. Currently the club plays in Eccellenza Sicily. Marsala was founded in 1912: it is also referred to as "lilybetani", after Lilybaeum, the ancient name of Marsala during the Roman period. After the First World War it was entered into the Coppa Federale Siciliana which was competed amongst the top Sicilian sides Marsala, Palermo, Messinese and Catanese. Marsala lost in the semi-finals heavily against eventual winners Palermo. The first professional appearance for the club is dated 1942, when the team
Rumney wine not a "fortified" wine in the modern sense, rather a "cooked" wine ("vin cuit") to which boiled-down must (grape syrup) was added. Rumney was exported from Methoni in the southern Peloponnese (one English source calls it "Rompney of Modonn") and perhaps also from Patras and other ports. Although modern methods are different, the Mavrodafni of Patras might be regarded as a modern equivalent of medieval Rumney wine. At the same period, Monemvasia, on the eastern coast of the Peloponnese, was the centre for the export of Malmsey wine; Cretan wine was the third of the medieval trio of Greek wines