ALESA, ALESA, or HALESA, (anc. geogr.) a town of Sicily, on the Tuscan sea, built, according to Diodorus Siculus, by Archonides of Herbita, in the second year of the ninety-fourth olympiad, or four hundred
dred and three years before Christ; situated on an eminence about a mile from the sea: now in ruins. It enjoyed immunity from taxes under the Romans, (Diodorus, Cicero.) The inhabitants were called Halesini, (Cicero, Pliny;) also Alesini, and Alesini.