The Early History of the Mediterranean Populations, &c., in Their Migrations and Settlements ...1882 |
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... Greek . Certain rules were observable in double vowels , and in the change of consonants for the transliteration into the various languages . * It necessarily follows that the present investigation carries the evidence very much further ...
... Greek . Certain rules were observable in double vowels , and in the change of consonants for the transliteration into the various languages . * It necessarily follows that the present investigation carries the evidence very much further ...
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... Greeks and in our day are accepted by the Turks . The autonomous coins constitute a very large class in Asia , Africa , and Europe , being those struck by cities , and many small towns which even under the Roman Empire preserved their ...
... Greeks and in our day are accepted by the Turks . The autonomous coins constitute a very large class in Asia , Africa , and Europe , being those struck by cities , and many small towns which even under the Roman Empire preserved their ...
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... Greek , and Latin as general languages , which ultimately fusing and outgrowing the local dialects , left only the few dominating languages , which became vehicles for wider oral and literal communication . The Semites and Aryans ...
... Greek , and Latin as general languages , which ultimately fusing and outgrowing the local dialects , left only the few dominating languages , which became vehicles for wider oral and literal communication . The Semites and Aryans ...
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... Greeks were immi- grants , and gradually imposed their language and mythology on the inhabitants , as the Semites did theirs in Palestine and ... Greek words 16 HISTORY OF MEDITERRANEAN POPULATIONS , ETC. Canaan, Phoenicians, Hellenes.
... Greeks were immi- grants , and gradually imposed their language and mythology on the inhabitants , as the Semites did theirs in Palestine and ... Greek words 16 HISTORY OF MEDITERRANEAN POPULATIONS , ETC. Canaan, Phoenicians, Hellenes.
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... Greek historians . Crete is a world in itself , and so is Sicily . When in the Greek time we find Thrace , Macedonia , and Epirus marked as barbarous , we arrive by the older testimonies at the fact that originally conformable , that is ...
... Greek historians . Crete is a world in itself , and so is Sicily . When in the Greek time we find Thrace , Macedonia , and Epirus marked as barbarous , we arrive by the older testimonies at the fact that originally conformable , that is ...
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