Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in Pontus (in present-day Turkey) in around 64 BC. His family had been involved in politics since at least the reign of Mithridates V. Strabo was related to Dorylaeus on his mother's side. Several other family members, including his paternal grandfather had served Mithridates VI during the Mithridatic Wars.

The Geography (Greek: Γεωγραφικὴ Ὑφήγησις, Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis, lit. "Geographical Guidance"), also known by its Latin names as the Geographia and the Cosmographia, is a gazetteer, an atlas, and a treatise on cartography, compiling the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire.Originally written by Claudius Ptolemy in Greek at Alexandria …

The Tauri (/ ˈ t aʊər i /; Ταῦροι in Ancient Greek), or Taurians, also Scythotauri, Tauri Scythae, Tauroscythae (Pliny, H. N. 4.85) were an ancient people settled on the southern coast of the Crimea peninsula, inhabiting the Crimean Mountains in the 1st millennium BC and the narrow strip of land between the mountains and the Black Sea. According to the sources, Taurians lived in ...

Dieu et mon droit (French pronunciation: [djø e mɔ̃ dʁwa], Old French: Deu et mon droit), meaning "God and my right", is the motto of the monarch of the United Kingdom outside Scotland. It appears on a scroll beneath the shield of the version of the coat of arms of the United Kingdom. The motto is said to have first been used by Richard I (1157–1199) as a battle cry and …

The oldest known oral version of the Cinderella story is the ancient Greek story of Rhodopis, a Greek courtesan living in the colony of Naucratis in Egypt, whose name means "Rosy-Cheeks".The story is first recorded by the Greek geographer Strabo in his Geographica (book 17, 33): "They [the Egyptians] tell the fabulous story that, when she was bathing, an eagle snatched one of her …

La Geografia (in greco antico: Γεωγραφικά, Gheographiká) è un'opera in diciassette libri di argomento storico-geografico, scritta in lingua greca dall'erudito greco Strabone, la cui composizione è databile tra il 14 e il 23 d.C.. Tramandata nella quasi totale interezza - con la sola eccezione di qualche lacuna nella parte finale del settimo libro - la Geografia è anche l'unica ...

Chorasan oder Churasan (persisch خراسان Chorāsān, DMG Ḫurāsān, manchmal auch Chorassan, im Englischen meist Khorassan, Khorasan oder Khurasan geschrieben), mit nördlicheren Regionen zusammengefasst als Chorasan und Mā warā’ an-nahr (arabisch-persisch خراسان و ما وراء النهر, DMG Ḫurāsān wa Mā warāʾ an-nahr), ist eine historische Region in Zentralasien ...

Sites for Sore Eyes The newest destinations from Geographia: Sinai Its Biblical sites have drawn spiritual pilgrims through the wadis and the waters of the Sinai Peninsula for nearly 2,000 years, but Sinai today is anything but the barren prison it was for Moses and the Israelites.

Nicaea or Nikaia (Ancient Greek: Νίκαια) was a city in what is now the Punjab, one of the two cities founded by Alexander the Great on opposite sides of the Hydaspes river. The second city founded by Alexander on the Hydaspes was Bucephala. It was at Nicaea or Bucephalia, which appears to have been on the opposite bank, that Alexander (according to Strabo) built the fleet which …

Before 1829 Ardahan was recorded to have had 400 households, the great majority of them Armenian. Many of them later emigrated to the Russian Empire.During the Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829) it was an important road junction connecting the border fortress of Akhaltsikhe to the Kars-Erzerum road. The town passed into the hands of Russia following the 1877-1878 …