Greek sailors and merchants from the Greek City States of the south of the Balkan peninsula reached almost every part of Mediterranean including the Adriatic Sea coast of present-day Croatia. Other Greeks came from Syracuse on Sicily in 390 BC to the islands of Vis ("Issa"), Hvar ("Pharos"), and Korčula ("Corcyra Nigra") founding city-states amongst the Illyrian ethno-tribal groups. Trading cities were founded on the Adriatic Coast such as "Tragurion" (today called Trogir), "Salona" (today called Solin near present-day Split), "Epetion" (today called Stobreč).