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Title: The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893, ed
Subjects: Geography, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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flaventia saxa Thasosque.—Id. ii. 2, 92c Sunt Thasiae vifes. Yihg. Georg. ii. 91. Hence the head of Dionysus appears on the coins of Thasos. 336 THKACIA - MACEDONIA. Book IV. the Phoenicians, and afterwards by the Greeks of Paros, who settledhere under Telesicles, the father of Archilochus, about 720 B.C. TheseThasian Greeks also worked the mines on the coast of Thrace. Thasosthus became very wealthy, and was obliged to contribute liberally tothe support of the Persian army under Xerxes. The chief town wason the N. coast, and possessed two ports. It was taken by the Athe-nians in B.C. 462, to whom the island remained generally subject. Itwas made free by the Romans after the battle of Cynoscephalae in 197.We have yet to notice the two small islands at the N. entrance of theThracian Bosporus, named Cyaneae Insulae, from the greenish cojjperycolour of the rocks, and Symplegades from their apparently clashingtogether as vessels approached them. They were an object of dread tomariners.^
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Philippi. II.—Macedonia. § 6. The boundaries of Macedonia, in the extent it attained sub-sequent to the reign of Philip, were—in the S. the ^gsean and theCambunian range, separating it fi-om Thessaly; in the W. MountLingon and a southerly offset of Scardus, which formed the limits ontlie side of Epirns and Illyria respectively ; in the ^N. Sc3dus, be-tween it and Moesia; and in the E. the river Nestus and Thracia. K6\x^^ ^? aXav, Kvavias Sv/XTrArjyaSa?.—EURIP. Med. 1 Chap. XVIII. XAME — MOUXTAIXS. 337 The surface of the country is mountainous, but there are severalextensive and very fertile plains enclosed between the ridges, andwell watered by the rivers which traverse them. The sea-coast isremarkably irreeiilar. Among the special sources of wealth of thiscountry we may n-jtice the gold and silver mines on the S. coast. Xame.—The country derived its name from the Macedones, whoseoriginal territory lay in the S.\V. of Macedonia between the hills onthe W. border and the neig

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