Strabo's Geography ( 1. 2. 10 ) reports that in antiquity, the Black Sea was often just called " the Sea " ( ho pontos ).

First-century Jericho is described in Strabo's Geography as follows:

It was also the title of a play by Menander, which we know of from book seven ( concerning Alexandria ) of Strabo's 17 volume Geography, and quotations of Menander by Clement of Alexandria and Stobaeus that relate to marriage.

* The Geography, Book XVI, Chapter II The entire context of the cited chapter of Strabo's work

It is not known precisely when Strabo's Geography was written, though comments within the work itself place the finished version within the reign of Emperor Tiberius.

The name of Maciste ultimately comes from a sentence in Strabo's Geography ( Book 8, Chapter 3, Section 21 ), in which he writes: — " And in the middle is the temple of the Macistian Heracles, and the river Acidon.

According to Poseidonius, later reported in Strabo's Geography, the monsoon wind system of the Indian Ocean was first sailed by Eudoxus of Cyzicus in 118 or 116 BC.

* Book XVII, Strabo's Geography

The Pontius Pilate legend of Ponza's name has recently come into dispute amongst historians, because the name " Pontia " appears in Strabo's Geography.

Strabo's Geography writes that Tenedos " contains an Aeolian city and has two harbors, and a temple of Apollo Smintheus " ( Strabo's Geography, Vol.

In a 2nd century BC inscription recording a decree of Histria honouring Agathocles, the region already was named Scythia, while the earliest usage of the name " Scythia Minor " ( Mikrá Skythia ) in literature is found in Strabo's early 1st-century Geography.

Kambysēnē ) as well as the river names Cyrus ( Kurosh ) and Cambyses ( Kambujiya ) occurring in Strabo's Geography and Pliny's Histories may be related to the ethno-geographical name Kambuja / Kamboja and Kuru of the Sanskrit texts.

Hipparchus, through Strabo, adds that Byzantium and the mouth of the Borysthenes, today's Dnepr river, were on the same meridian and were separated by 3700 stadia, 5. 3 ° at Strabo's 700 stadia per a degree of meridian arc.

But this theory, based on the testimony of the Augustan-era geographer Strabo's work Geographica VII. 3. 2 and 3. 13, is disputed ; opponents argue that Thracian was a distinct language from Dacian, either related or unrelated.

" Edwards suggested that the pyramid was entered by robbers after the end of the Old Kingdom and sealed and then reopened more than once until Strabo's door was added.

Strabo's Iberia was delineated from Keltikē by the Pyrenees and included the entire land mass south-west ( he named it " west ") of there.

Pytheas described his travels in a work that has not survived ; only excerpts remain, quoted or paraphrased by later authors, most familiarly in Strabo's Geographica, Pliny's Natural History and passages in Diodorus of Sicily's history.

Despite Strabo's conviction of a lie, the perimeter said to have been given by Pytheas is not evidence of it.

To get this country south of Britain to conform to Strabo's interpretation of Pytheas, Ptolemy has to rotate Scotland by 90 °.

Virgil took pleasure in translating etymologies of Greek names by combining them with adjectives that explained them: for Atlas his adjective is durus, " hard, enduring ", which suggested to George Doig that Virgil was aware of the Greek τλήναι " to endure "; Doig offers the further possibility that Virgil was aware of Strabo's remark that the native North African name for this mountain was Douris.

Strabo's life was characterized by extensive travels.

They are provisionally described by Strabo as a mixed race of Celts and Illyrians, who used Celtic weapons, tattooed themselves, and lived chiefly on spelt and millet ; however, Strabo's suggestion of a mixed Celtic-Illyrian Iapydes culture is not confirmed by archaeology.

" The present-day localization of the Dahae Parni is formed by Strabo's ( Geographica 11, 1st century BCE ) identification of the Parni / Dahae in the region of the Caspian Sea.

Strabo's Sicilian contemporary, Diodorus Siculus, conflated Sabazios with the secret ' second ' Dionysus, born of Zeus and Persephone, a connection that is not borne out by surviving inscriptions, which are entirely to Zeus Sabazios.

Strabo's statement that the Moesian people spoke the same language as the Dacians and Getae is confirmed by the distribution of placenames, attested in Ptolemy's Geographia, which carry the Dacian suffix-dava (" town " or " fort ").

Strabo's version of the story claims that it was settled by Ethiopians who had attempted to invade Egypt and were subsequently punished by having their noses cut off.

Though some of the masonry in the ruins is certainly pre-Roman, the Suda's identification of it with Cyinda, famous as a treasure city in the wars of Eumenes of Cardia, cannot be accepted in the face of Strabo's express location of Cyinda in western Cilicia.

Strabo's mention of the Battle of Teutoburg Forest places his knowledge in the final years of Augustus ' reign and after, which is the early first century.

The account in Germania is inconsistent with Strabo's and Pliny's on a major point.

Furthermore, the Gundestrup cauldron, found in Himmerland, may be a sacrificial vessel like the one described in Strabo's text.

Strabo's version looks to be the most authoritative as he had access to first hand primary sources on the sanctuaries of Artemis, i. e. the priest of Artemis Artemidoros of Ephesus.

I. E. S. Edwards discusses Strabo's mention that the pyramid " a little way up one side has a stone that may be taken out, which being raised up there is a sloping passage to the foundations.

1620 edition of Strabo's Geographica.

The mare concretum appears to match Strabo's pepēguia thalatta and is probably the same as the topoi (" places ") mentioned in Strabo's apparent description of spring drift ice, which would have stopped his voyage further north and was for him the ultimate limit of the world.

Strabo's angular report of this line as being at 24 ° may well be based on a tangent known to Pytheas, but he does not say that.

East-west distance was a matter of contention to the geographers ; they are one of Strabo's most frequent topics.

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Strabo in his Geography, Book VII 3, 12, tells about the Daci-Getae division " Getae, those who incline towards the Pontus and the east, and Daci, those who incline in the opposite direction towards Germany and the sources of the Ister ".

The first re-release is their debut album Geography, this time newly remastered personally by Bresanutti to surprisingly powerful effect and including 3 extra tracks ( two hidden ones ) on the normal CD format.

There may be an earlier reference to the Quadi in the Geography of Strabo ( 7. 1. 3 ).

Strabo in his Geography, book 7, 3, 1-11 talks about a certain Deceneus ( Dékainéos ) which calls γόητα, " magician ".

The Ems was known to several ancient authors: Pliny the Elder in Natural History ( 4. 14 ), Tacitus in the Annals ( Book 1 ), Pomponius Mela ( 3. 3 ), Strabo and Ptolemy, Geography ( 2. 10 ).

The largest and most popular sections of the library were History, Antiquities, and Geography, with 283 titles and 6, 121 borrowings, and Belles Lettres, with 238 titles and 3, 313 borrowings.

Strabo also reports in Geography, 8. 7. 3 that the Achaean League was gradually dissolved under the Roman possession of the whole of Macedonia, owing to them not dealing with the several states in the same way, but wishing to preserve some and to destroy others.

This coverage model is concretized to the level of interoperability by the OGC standard GML 3. 2. 1 Application Schema-Coverages ( often referred to as GMLCOV ) which in turn is based on the Geography Markup Language ( GML ) 3. 2, an XML grammar written in XML Schema for the description of application schemas as well as the transport and storage of geographic information.

" -- Strabo Geography ( 1st Century CE ), 10. 3. 18.

According to IBGE ( Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ), Limeira has a GDP of R $ 5. 6 billion ( 2010 ), around U $ 3. 6 billion.

A theory propounded in The History and Geography of Human Genes ( 1994 ), says blond hair became predominant in Northern Europe beginning about 3, 000 BC, in the area now known as Lithuania, among the recently arrived Proto-Indo-European settlers ( according to the Kurgan hypothesis ), and the trait spread quickly through sexual selection into Scandinavia.

* History and Geography are studied in the student's first foreign language from Year 3 onwards.

" ( Strabo, Geography 10. 3. 22 )

As an example, some students in S51 would be taking Geography in place of Chemistry, since the S5 faculty takes Physics, Maths, Economics as their 3 basic subjects.

Strabo wrote about Tusculum in Geography, V 3 § 12 .:

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** Braxton, Joanne M. " Symbolic Geography and Psychic Landscapes: A Conversation with Maya Angelou ", pp. 3 – 20