* Strabo, Geography

In his work, " Geography ", the classical geographer Strabo suggests a change had occurred in the use of the name " Lusitanian ".

Strabo, a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher, in his Geography ( c. AD 24 ), wrote in detail about Moses, whom he considered to be an Egyptian who deplored the situation in his homeland, and thereby attracted many followers who respected the deity.

Several works among the best known during this long period could be cited as an example, from Strabo ( Geography ), Eratosthenes ( Geography ) or Dionisio Periegetes ( Periegesis Oiceumene ) in the Ancient Age to the Alexander von Humboldt ( Cosmos ) in the century XIX, in which geography is regarded as a physical and natural science, of course, through the work Summa de Geografía of Martín Fernández de Enciso from the early sixteenth century, which is indicated for the first time the New World.

* Greek geographer Strabo publishes Geography, a work covering the world known to the Romans and Greeks at the time of Emperor Augustus – it is the only such book to survive from the ancient world.

The 5th century BC Athenian historian Thucydides describes them as " barbarians " in his History of the Peloponnesian War, as does Strabo in his Geography.

* The Greek geographer Strabo of Amaseia, in Geography 16. 1 –. 6, writes: " In Babylon a settlement is set apart for the local philosophers, the Chaldaeans, as they are called, who are concerned mostly with astronomy ; but some of these, who are not approved of by the others, profess to be writers of horoscopes.

* The Greek geographer Strabo of Amaseia, in Geography 16. 1 –. 6, writes: " In Babylon a settlement is set apart for the local philosophers, the Chaldaeans, as they are called, who are concerned mostly with astronomy ; but some of these, who are not approved of by the others, profess to be writers of horoscopes.

The Geography ( XXIII, 11 ) of Strabo ( 64 / 63 BC – ca.

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 ".

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## Strabo ( first century BC ) Geography I, 2, 39 ( Jones, H. L.

) ( 1969 ) The Geography of Strabo ( in eight volumes ) London

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

Strabo, in his Geography, writes:

* Strabo, Geography, translated by Horace Leonard Jones ; Vol.

Strabo dedicates a section of his Geography to the Pelasgians, relating both his own opinions and those of prior writers.

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 ).

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.

The earliest written accounts of forest destruction in Southern Europe begin around 1000 BC in the histories of Homer, Thucydides and Plato and in Strabo ’ s Geography.

Strabo in his Geography ( c. 30 ), Book I, Chapter 4, mentions Thule in describing Eratosthenes ' calculation of " the breadth of the inhabited world " and notes that Pytheas says it " is a six days ' sail north of Britain, and is near the frozen sea.

Strabo, whose Geography is the main surviving source of the story, was skeptical about its truth.

Europe's eastern frontier was defined in the 1st century by geographer Strabo at the River Don.

According to Strabo, a water powered mill was built in Kaberia of the kingdom of Mithridates during the 1st century BC.

However, the first mention of the Tókharoi appear much earlier, in the 1st century BC, when Strabo mentions that " the Tókharoi, together with the Assianis, Passianis and Sakaraulis, took part in the destruction of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom " in the second half of the 2nd century BC.

In the 1st century BC, the Greek-Roman geographer Strabo gave an extensive description of the eastern Scythians, whom he located in north-eastern Asia beyond Bactria and Sogdiana:

The Greek geographer Strabo, writing in the 1st century AD, identified Homer's Ithaca with modern Ithaca.

" It seems that if Zeus were to stand up ," the geographer Strabo noted early in the 1st century BC, " he would unroof the temple.

The Ancient Greek historian Strabo ( Geographica Book 17, 1. 33 ) recorded in the 1st century BC the tale of the Greco-Egyptian girl Rhodopis, " rosy-cheeked ", who lived in the Greek colony of Naucratis in Ancient Egypt.

* Strabo, Greek geographer, who visited during the Roman conquest in the late 1st century BCE.

Strabo in the 1st century names as the main tribes of the Sarmatians the Iazyges, the Roxolani, the Aorsi and the Siraces.

The Greco-Roman historian Strabo ( late 1st century BC-early 1st century AD ) described them as " wagon-dwellers " ( i. e. nomads ) ( Geographika, Book VII ).

Strabo mentions that around his time ( 1st century BC ), the Lydian language had become extinct in Lydia proper, but was still being spoken among the multicultural population of Kibyra ( present-day Gölhisar ) in south-west Anatolia by the descendants of the Lydian colonists who had founded the city.

Strabo wrote of the Caucasian Albanians in the 1st century BC:

He had numerous pupils and followers, and a medical school bearing his name continued to exist at Smyrna in Ionia nearly till the time of Strabo, about the beginning of the 1st century.

In classical antiquity, it was inhabited by the Histri, a Venetic or Illyrian tribe recorded by Strabo in the 1st century AD

A distinct Lydian culture lasted, in all probability, until at least shortly before the Common Era, having been attested the last time among extant records by Strabo in Kibyra in south-west Anatolia around his time ( 1st century BC ).

Strabo adds that their territory was the scene of the wars in the 1st century BC between Sertorius and Pompey.

The 1st century Greek historian Nicolaus of Damascus met, at Damascus, the ambassador sent by a king from Dramira " named Pandyan or, according to others, Porus " to Caesar Augustus around 13 AD ( Strabo XV. 1 – 4, and Strabo XV. 1 – 73 ).

Mention of the island of Spetses was made both by Strabo in the 1st century BC and Pausanias in the 2nd century AD, referring to the island as Pitiousa.

In 1439, the Greek philosopher Gemistos Plethon, attending the Council of Florence, acquainted Toscanelli with the extensive travels, writings and mapping of the 1st century BC / AD Greek geographer Strabo, hitherto unknown in Italy.

In antiquity, Nysa was also known as Athymbra ( Ancient Greek Ἄθυμβρα ); according to Strabo, who started his life of study in Nysa ( which was an important center of learning in the 1st century BC ), " Nysa resulted from a synoecism of three towns that were founded by three brothers, Athymbros, Athymbrados, and Hydrelos.

The Greek geographer Strabo mentioned the Seres in his " Geographia ", written early in the 1st century, in two passages.

The geographer Strabo states that in the 1st century BCE, there were many small kingdoms under Roman domination.