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  • {{short description|Ancient Greek historian and rhetorician}} ...ydia]].</ref> ({{langx|grc|Ἡγησίας ὁ Μάγνης|Hēgēsias ho Magnēs}}) was an [[Ancient Greek]] historian and [[rhetorician]] who flourished about 300 BC. [[Strabo ...
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  • ...ly a few fragments have survived. He took the history of the [[near East]] from where [[Ctesias]] left off. While indulging in the taste for the low, his h ...Pliny the Elder]]. It is speculated that Cleitarchus drew much information from his father's historical work when writing his own history of [[Alexander th ...
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  • ...resun|Pharnakeia]] and [[Trabzon]] in the east and as far south as eastern Anatolia. According to [[Apollonius of Rhodes]], the Chalybes were [[Scythians]].<re ...s}}, "steel". Sayce derived the Greek name {{Transliteration|grc|Chalybe}} from [[Hittite language|Hittite]] {{Transliteration|hit|Khaly-wa}}, "land of [[H ...
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  • | alma_mater = [[Anatolia College]],<br/> [[University of Thessaloniki]],<br/> [[Harvard University]] ...of Thessaloniki]] with a [[Philology]] degree;{{When|date=April 2022}} and from [[Harvard University]] with a PhD in 1998 [[Byzantine Studies]].<ref>{{Cite ...
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  • ...een chiefly devoted to an account of the lives of the leading figures of [[Ancient Greece|Greece]]. [[Category:Ancient Greek biographers]] ...
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  • ...</ref>--> c.&nbsp;550 – c.&nbsp;476 BC), son of Hegesander, was an early [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[historian]] and [[geographer]].<ref>{{cite book |author=He ...own Greek [[historian]]<ref name="lamberg-karlovsky-p4">{{cite book |title=Ancient Civilizations: The Near East and Mesoamerica |last1=Lamberg-Karlovsky |firs ...
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  • ...archaeologist]] whose work on [[Bronze Age]] [[tin]] [[mining|mine]]s in [[Anatolia]] revealed a new possible source of the important metal. ...d was an associate [[professor]] of [[history]] at [[Boğaziçi University]] from 1980 to 1988. Aslıhan Yener became a professor of Anatolian Archaeology in ...
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  • The '''1200s BC''' is a [[List of decades|decade]] that lasted from 1209 BC to 1200 BC. **Pharaoh [[Merneptah]] claims a victory over the Ysrir, identified by some historians as the [[Israelites]]. ...
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  • ...terson University) in [[New Jersey]]. He wrote on the history of science, ancient weights and measures ([[metrology]]), and the history of [[cartography]] in ...n the hands of [[Kenneth Kitchen]] the sequence of blessings and curses in ancient contracts was eventually to become one of the most important dating tools o ...
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  • ...; c. 347 - c. 420) was a Greek [[sophist]], [[rhetorician]], and historian from [[Sardis]] in the region of [[Lydia]] in [[Asia Minor]]. His principal surv ...work of [[Zosimus (historian)|Zosimus]]. It embraced the history of events from AD 270–404.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} ...
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  • ...''', was a [[Hellenic civilization|Greek]] [[physician]] and [[historian]] from the town of [[Cnidus]] in [[Caria]], then part of the [[Achaemenid Empire]] ...ersia]] in 23 books, ''Persica'' ({{langx|grc|Περσικά|label=none}}), drawn from documents in the Persian Royal Archives, written in opposition to [[Herodot ...
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  • {{Short description|Ancient city in Mysia or Aiolis, mentioned by Homer}} [[File:Ancient edremit gulf.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Location of Thebe in the [[Edremit gulf] ...
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  • In the [[founding myth]] of [[Gordium]], the first Gordias was a poor farmer from Macedonia who was the last descendant of the royal family of [[Bryges]].<re ...uld unravel it would be master of Asia (which was equated at the time with Anatolia). Instead, Alexander sliced the knot in half with his sword, in 333 BC. ...
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  • ...e hereditary priesthood of [[Apollo]]. The chronological indications range from the middle of the 3rd century BC until the late 2nd century BC.{{sfn|Malomu ...by |first=Andrew |authorlink=Andrew Dalby |title=Food in the Ancient World from A to Z |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KdR4jRJCxEsC&pg=PA18 |year=20 ...
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  • ...ho Kymaios''; {{Circa|400 BC}}{{snd}}330&nbsp;BC) was an [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] [[historian]] known for his [[Universal history (genre)|universal h ...e [[Sacred War (disambiguation)|Sacred Wars]], along with other narratives from the days of the [[Heracleidae|Heraclids]] up until the taking of [[Marmara ...
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  • ...esia]] on the [[Maeander]] and later also the history of [[Ancient history|ancient studies]]. In 1907 he became professor at the [[Martin Luther University of ...eligion teacher Anton Jonas introduced him to the [[history of religion]]. From 1883 to 1887 he studied [[classical philology]] and [[archaeology]] at the ...
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  • {{Short description|One hundred years, from 1500 BC to 1401 BC}} The '''15th century BC''' was the [[century]] that lasted from 1500 BC to 1401 BC. ...
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  • ...[[Alexander the Great]], [[List of kings of Macedon|king]] of [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedon]] ([[reign|r.]] 336–323 BC). ...).], pp. 177-237. ''Orbis Terrarum, Journal of Historical Geography of the Ancient World'' 6, 2000.</ref> ...
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  • ...[[Anatolians|Anatolian]] people living in [[Lydia]], a region in western [[Anatolia]], who spoke the distinctive [[Lydian language]], an [[Indo-European langua ...e last time among extant records by [[Strabo]] in [[Kibyra]] in south-west Anatolia around his time (1st century BC). ...
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  • ...e they were apparently pre-literate and the only references to them are in ancient Greek sources. These references are casual and (it is alleged) sometimes fi Many Greek authors link the Leleges to the [[Carians]] of south-west Anatolia.<ref>{{cite book |author=Herodotus |author-link=Herodotus |others=1.171}}</ ...
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