Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Volume 6Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake B.B. Mussey & Company, 1851 |
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... mountains , extending from the Ambra- cian gulf , 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 , 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 Ætolia 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 Ætolia 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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... of the citadel , were obliged to leave the city in the middle of December , when Omer Vrione returned from Livadia , and dis perse themselves in the mountains . Dur- ing this irregular 20 GREECE , REVOLUTION OF MODERN .
... of the citadel , were obliged to leave the city in the middle of December , when Omer Vrione returned from Livadia , and dis perse themselves in the mountains . Dur- ing this irregular 20 GREECE , REVOLUTION OF MODERN .
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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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