Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Partheniae, sons born from unions between unmarried Spartan women and Perioeci free men, established the city. Phalanthus led this exiled group to Delphi before they settled at the harbor designated by an oracle.
British naval forces attacked Italian ships at anchor in Taranto harbor on the night of the 12th of November 1940. Admiral Andrew Cunningham commanded the Royal Navy against Admiral Inigo Campioni's Regia Marina in history's first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack.
Taranto earns its name as the city of two seas because Big Sea washes the northwest side while Little Sea surrounds the peninsula of the old city. The territory extends across land mostly underwater due to three natural peninsulas and a man-made island formed during castle construction.
Pollutants discharged into the air by factories caused severe damage leading to the declaration as a high environmental risk area from the Ministry of Environment. The ILVA steel plant part of Gruppo Riva contributed significantly to the crisis with ninety-three percent of pollution originating from industrial facilities.
King Ferdinand II of Aragon ordered construction of Aragon Castle designed by Francesco di Giorgio Martini. It replaced a ninth-century Byzantine fortress deemed unfit for fifteenth-century warfare and protected the city from frequent Turkish raids until 1707 when it ceased military use.