Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations - Lexicon, Volume 6Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Carey, Lea & Carey, 1831 |
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... mountains , extending from the Ambra- cian gulf , in the west , to Thermopyla , on the east , separates Northern Greece from Southern . The climate is alternately se- vere or mild , as the mountains or valleys predominate , but it is ...
... mountains , extending from the Ambra- cian gulf , in the west , to Thermopyla , on the east , separates Northern Greece from Southern . The climate is alternately se- vere or mild , as the mountains or valleys predominate , but it is ...
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... mountains of Etolia were neither suited to pasturage nor to agriculture . Acarnania , the sea - coast of Attica , and the mountainous parts of Megaris , were as little remarkable for fer- tility as Achaia . Argolis had a fruitful soil ...
... mountains of Etolia were neither suited to pasturage nor to agriculture . Acarnania , the sea - coast of Attica , and the mountainous parts of Megaris , were as little remarkable for fer- tility as Achaia . Argolis had a fruitful soil ...
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... mountains . Dur- ing this irregular war , the government be- gan to acquire some form , as the separate senates established connexions with each other . They invested Demetrius Ypsilanti with the chief command in the Morea , Ulysses ...
... mountains . Dur- ing this irregular war , the government be- gan to acquire some form , as the separate senates established connexions with each other . They invested Demetrius Ypsilanti with the chief command in the Morea , Ulysses ...
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... mountains . The European consuls , by means of a pastoral letter of the arch- bishop , and by the written assurance of the surviving hostages , that the Sciots might trust the offered amnesty , if they would deliver up their leaders and ...
... mountains . The European consuls , by means of a pastoral letter of the arch- bishop , and by the written assurance of the surviving hostages , that the Sciots might trust the offered amnesty , if they would deliver up their leaders and ...
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... mountains . Mavrocordato in vain called the people to arms ; the other commanders refused to assist him ; general Varnakioti went over to the enemy , and the internal dissen- sions among the Albanians enfeebled the strength of the ...
... mountains . Mavrocordato in vain called the people to arms ; the other commanders refused to assist him ; general Varnakioti went over to the enemy , and the internal dissen- sions among the Albanians enfeebled the strength of the ...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 6 Francis Lieber,Edward Wigglesworth,Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Affichage du livre entier - 1845 |
Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 6 Francis Lieber,Edward Wigglesworth Affichage du livre entier - 1831 |
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