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* 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 ".
< p > Strabo ... enters largely, in the Second Book of his Geography, into the opinions of Eratosthenes and other Greeks on one of the most difficult problems in geology, viz., by what causes marine shells came to be plentifully buried in the earth at such great elevations and distances from the sea .</ p >
## 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, 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 Geography ( 1st Century CE ), 10. 3. 18.
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.

Strabo and writes
Historian Strabo writes that the Seleucids later gave the area south of the Hindu Kush to the Mauryas after a treaty was made.
Of these people Strabo writes: And their training in the use of slings used to be such, from childhood up, that they would not so much as give bread to their children unless they first hit it with the sling.
The Greek historian Strabo writes " they extended their empire even as far as the Seres ( China ) and the Phryni.
Of the Greco-Bactrians, the Greek historian Strabo too writes that:
Pliny suggests the dog as having taken its name from the Adriatic island Méléda ; however, Strabo, in the early first century AD, identifies the breed as originating from the Mediterranean island of Malta, and writes that they were favored by noble women.
The Greek historian Strabo too writes that:
Strabo also writes
For example, Strabo ( 12. 5. 3 ) writes that the priests were potentates in " ancient times ", but it is unclear whether Pessinus was already a temple state ruled by " dynastai " in the Phrygian period.

Geography and writes
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.
Strabo's Geography writes that Tenedos " contains an Aeolian city and has two harbors, and a temple of Apollo Smintheus " ( Strabo's Geography, Vol.
McKittrick's feminist approach to Geography stakes claim in the co-articulation of race and gender as they articulate space and she writes, “ I am emphasizing here that racism and sexism are not simply bodily or identity based ; racism and sexism are also spatial acts and illustrate black women ’ s geographic experiences and knowledges as they are made possible through domination ” ( xviii ).

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