Volume 1
The geography of Strabo / Literally translated, with notes. The first six books by H. C .Hamilton, esq., the remainder by W. Falconer.
- Strabo
- Date:
- 1854-1857
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The geography of Strabo / Literally translated, with notes. The first six books by H. C .Hamilton, esq., the remainder by W. Falconer. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![enjoined the founders of Byzantium, in answer to their in- quiries, to build their city opposite to the Blind, applying this name to the Chalcedonians, who, although they were the first persons to arrive in these parts, had omitted to take possession of the opposite side, which atforded such great resources of wealth, and chose the barren coast. We have continued our description to Byzantium, because this celebrated city,^ by its proximity to the mouth of the Euxine Sea, forms a better-known and more remarkable termination of an account of the coast from the Danube than any other. Above Byzantium is the nation of the Asti, in whose terri- tory is the city Calybe, which Philip the son of Amyntas made a settlement for criminals. CHAPTER VII. 1. These are the nations, bounded by the Danube and by the Illyrian and Thracian mountains, which are worthy of record. They occupy the whole coast of the Adriatic Sea, beginning from the recess of the gulf, and the left side, as it is called, of tlie Euxine Sea, from the river Danube to Byzantium. The southern parts of the above-mentioned mountainous tract, and the countries which follow, lying below it, remain to be described. Among these are Gi*feece, and the contiguous barbarous country extending to the mountains. IlecatiBus of Miletus says of the Peloponnesus, that, before the time of the Greeks, it was inhabited by barbarians. Per- haps even the whole of Greece was, anciently, a settlement of barbarians, if we judge from former accounts. For Pclops brouglit colonists from Phrygia into the Peloponnesus, which * Tlic nncient Byzantium, there are grounds for bclievinp, was marked by the present walls of the Seraslio. The enlarced city was founded by the emperor Constantine, a. r>. 3’2S, wlio pave it his name, .and made it the rival of Home itself. It was taken from the Greeks in 121)1. by the Ve- netians under Uandolo ; retaken by the Greeks in 1201 under the em- ]ieror .Miehael I’ala'olopus, and conquered by the Turks in 145,3. The crescent fotind on some of the ancient Byzantine coins was adopted as a symbol by the Turks.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24872556_0001_0506.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
