The Classical Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Ancient Geography, Sacred and ProfaneWhittaker, 1851 - 378 Seiten |
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Achaia Adriatic Ægean Æolis Ætolia Alpes Aquitania Arabia Felix Argolis Armenia Asiat Attica Augusta Bætica Belgica birth-place Bithynia Boeotia Brit Bruttium Byzacene Campania capital Cappadocia Caria Chersonesus Cilicia Campestris coast cognominal colonia conensis Dacia Danube demus of Attica district early name Etruria Euboea Euphrates Euxine falling fortress Gallia Gangem Gaul Germania Illyria India Ionia Judæa Laconia lacus Latium Liguria Locri Lucania Lugdunensis Lycia Macedonia Mæotis Magna mare maritime town Mauritania Mauritania Cæsar Messenia Moesia mouth municipium Mysia Narbonensis nensis Nile Noricum Numidia palus Pannonia Paphlagonia Persicus Phrygia Pontus port portus postea prius prom Red Sea regio Rhætia Rhine rising Sabinium Sardinia Sarmatia Sarmatia Asiatica surnamed Tarra Tarraconensis temple Thessaly Thrace town of Arcadia town of Caria town of Crete town of Etruria town of Lydia town of Mauritania town of Numidia town of Phrygia town of Sicily town of Zeugitana tribe Turtetani Venetia vide village
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Seite 35 - It was comjwsed of three tribes, descended from and named after the three sons of Anak— Ahiman, Sesai, and Talmai. When the Israelites invaded Canaan, the Anakim were in possession of Hebron, Debir, Anak, and other towns in the country of the south. Their formidable stature and appearance alarmed the Hebrew spies; but they were eventually overcome and expelled by Caleb, when the remnant of the race took refuge...
Seite 227 - ... elephant hunts, the same thing occurs 45 days before and 45 days after midsummer, and during that period of 90 days the shadows are thrown southward. Again in Meroe — this is an inhabited island in the river Nile 5000 stades from Syene, and is the capital of the Aethiopian race — the shadows disappear twice a year, when the sun is in the 18th degree of Taurus and in the 14th of Leo. There is a mountain named Maleus in the Indian tribe of the Oretes, near which shadows are thrown southward...
Seite 206 - Virg. G. 3, v. 113. A son of Dardanus, who reigned in Troy, and died 1374 BC, after a long reign of about 75 years.
Seite 190 - I believe, by most geographical writers, and will be found much more convenient for the purposes of history. 1. Liguria. 2. Gallia Cisalpina. 3. Venetia, including the Carni and Histria. 4. Etruria. 5. Umbria and Picenum. 6. The Sabini, yEqui, Marsi, Peligni, Vestini, Marrucini.
Seite 6 - Ionian sea, divided from /F.toliit by the Achelous. The inhabitants reckoned only six months in the year ; they were luxurious, and addicted to pleasure, so that jtorcits Acarnas became proverbial.
Seite 139 - ... proceeding to another. These people are pagans, and are very ignorant and filthy in their mode of life. The sea rovers roam over the whole archipelago in their prahus or boats, and are generally pirates. The civilized and settled Malays are Mohammedans, and their governments are despotic. The peninsula is supposed by some writers to have been the original seat of the Malay race, and to this day it is...
Seite 217 - Pliny, always maintained the same level, whatever quantity was added to, or taken from it...