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The pithecus portion of the name is from the Greek word for " monkey ".
) Given the exclusionary and ancestral conception of citizenship held by Greek city-states, a relatively large portion of the population took part in the government of Athens and of other radical democracies like it.
According to the E. J. Erickson the Greek Navy also played a crucial, albeit indirect role, in the Thracian campaign by neutralizing no less than three Thracian Corps ( see First Balkan War, the Bulgarian theater of operations ), a significant portion of the Ottoman Army there, in the all-important opening round of the war.
This portion was printed in 1514, but publication was delayed until 1522 by waiting for the Old Testament portion, and the sanction of Pope Leo X. Erasmus had been working for years on two projects: a collation of Greek texts and a fresh Latin New Testament.
This inevitably reduced the potential duration of campaigns, as a large portion of any Greek army would need to return to their own professions ( especially in the case of farmers, for example ).
But, soon after the Italian invasion, the Greeks counter-attacked and a sizeable portion of Albania was in Greek hands ( including the cities of Gjirokastër and Korçë ).
The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek.
However, post-war resettlements from Poland's ethnically and religiously more diverse former eastern territories ( known in Polish as Kresy ) and the eastern parts of post-1945 Poland ( see Operation Vistula ) account for a comparatively large portion of Greek Catholics and Orthodox Christians of mostly Ukrainian and Lemko descent.
After the Second Balkan War, Thessaloniki and the rest of the Greek portion of Macedonia were officially annexed to Greece by the Treaty of Bucharest in 1913.
English colon is from Latin colon ( plural cola ), itself from Greek κῶλον " limb, member, portion ", in rhetoric or prosody especially a part or section of a sentence or a rhythmical period of an utterance.
A portion of this pool remains unexcavated, as the land above it is owned by a nearby Greek Orthodox church and is occupied by an orchard known as the King's Garden ( compare ).
The Ancient Greek word moira ( μοίρα ) means a portion or lot of the whole, and is related to meros, " part, lot " and moros, " fate, doom ", Latin meritum, " desert, reward ", English merit, derived from the PIE root *( s ) mer, " to allot, assign ".
A natural whirlpool in the Northern portion of the strait has been linked to the Greek legend of Scylla and Charybdis.
* Moira ( portion ) an ancient Greek word referring to a portion of the whole
The aphotic zone ( aphotic from Greek prefix + " without light ") is the portion of a lake or ocean where there is little or no sunlight.
The wording of the Coptic sometimes differs markedly from the earlier Greek Oxyrhynchus texts, the extreme case being that the last portion of logion 30 in the Greek is found at the end of logion 77 in the Coptic.
In chemistry, an enantiomer ( ; from the Greek ἐνάντιος, opposite, and μέρος, part or portion ) is one of two stereoisomers that are mirror images of each other that are
He amassed information from the whole range of Greek literature, carefully appraised the value of the information given, and shows throughout every portion of it rare critical ability and insight.
However other experts, beginning with Ludwig van Jan, point out that despite his familiarity with Greek literature Macrobius was far more familiar with Latin than Greek — as evidenced by his enthusiasm for Vergil and Cicero -- and favor North Africa, which was part of the Latin-speaking portion of the Roman Empire.

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In addition, some portion of the Arithmetica probably survived in the Arab tradition ( see above ).

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However, as in the case of his friend Erasmus of Rotterdam, only a small portion of his correspondence ( about 280 letters ), survived.
While assigned to the Farragut, Kirk commanded his first planetary survey and survived a deadly attack that killed a large portion of the Farraguts crew, including his commanding officer, Captain Garrovick.
It survived the 1906 earthquake and fire which destroyed a large portion of San Francisco.
A short portion of the highway was constructed from State Highway Route 34 to State Highway Route 35 was constructed as Route 38, which survived the 1953 state highway renumbering.
The Palace Theater has survived two fires, one in 1935 that destroyed a large portion of downtown, and the other in April 2012.
Rose's edition ( 1934 ) of Hygini Fabulae for the Loeb Classical Library wondered " at the caprices of Fortune who has allowed many of the plays of an Aeschylus, the larger portion of Livy's histories, and other priceless treasures to perish, while this school-boy's exercise has survived to become the pabulum of scholarly effort.
The alignment of Route 67 originates as a portion of State Highway Route 18N, a state highway that survived the 1927 state highway renumbering from its commissioning in 1923.
It has been demonstrated to be somewhat erroneous but has become the widely accepted standard chronology, in large part because it was inscribed on the arch of Augustus in Rome ; though that arch no longer stands, a large portion of the chronology has survived under the name of Fasti Capitolini.
Fortunately, a portion of the rock inscribed with Chinese characters survived the blasting operation.
As is typical for pre-Restoration playwrights, a significant portion of Ford's output has not survived.
The District of Assiniboia survived in its original geographical configuration as the Anglican Diocese of Qu ' Appelle until the 1970s when the portion of the diocese ( and former District of Assiniboia ) lying within the province of Alberta was ceded to the Diocese of Calgary.
As the Zentraedi fleet prepares to fire again, The Alaska base, which survived the initial attack, fires the massive Grand Cannon which destroys a large portion of the Zentraedi Grand Fleet.
We proceed to summarize briefly the contents of that portion of the Collection which has survived, mentioning separately certain propositions which seem to be among the most important.
It appears that large parts survived relatively intact until the 9th century: the 11th-century historian Kedrenos records that the " wall at Exokionion ", likely a portion of the Constantinian wall, collapsed in an earthquake in 867.
The Aramaic language and Christianity survived among a sizeable portion of the population of Syria, who resisted Arabization and Islamification.
Part of the site was used for the creation of Queen Street, though a small portion of the churchyard survived.
A small portion of Navarre north of the Pyrenees, Lower Navarre, along with the neighbouring Principality of Béarn survived as an independent kingdom which passed by inheritance.
The building was heavily damaged during World War II, though a large portion of it survived intact.
The early examples are walnut, but by far the largest portion of the many that have survived are mahogany, this being the wood most frequently employed in the 18th century for the construction of furniture, especially the more massive pieces.
Back in the present portion of the game, the computer now says that Wilde survived the mission as well.
Today, a portion of the streetcar right-of-way, complete with poles, has survived intact on the south side of the Rock Road just east of Earth City Expressway.
He became the Despot of Serbia in 1402 after the Ottoman state temporarily collapsed following Timur's invasion of Anatolia with the Battle of Ankara, where he and his Serbian Knights fought well and a good portion of his forces survived. Then stopping at Constantinople on his way home, he was well received by the Emperor who granted him the title of Despot by which he was to be known from then on and by which his successors were also to be known.
A portion of the Kimeks that left the Ob-Irtysh interfluvial region joined the Kipchak confederation that survived until the Mongol invasion, and later united with the Nogai confederation of the Kipchak descendents.

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