THE EARLY AGE OF GREECE VOL.I by W.Ridgeway 1901
MACEDONIA is GREECE and will always be GREECE- (if they are desperate to steal a name, Monkeydonkeys suits them just fine) ΚΑΤΩ Η ΣΥΓΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΔΟΤΩΝ!!! Strabo – “Geography” “There remain of Europe, first, Macedonia and the parts of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzantium; secondly, Greece; and thirdly, the islands that are close by. Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece, yet now, since I am following the nature and shape of the places geographically, I have decided to classify it apart from the rest of Greece and to join it with that part of Thrace which borders on it and extends as far as the mouth of the Euxine and the Propontis. Then, a little further on, Strabo mentions Cypsela and the Hebrus River, and also describes a sort of parallelogram in which the whole of Macedonia lies.” (Strab. 7.fragments.9) ΚΚΕ, ΚΝΕ, ΟΝΝΕΔ, ΑΓΟΡΑ,ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ,ΝΕΑ,ΦΩΝΗ,ΦΕΚ,ΝΟΜΟΣ,LIFO,MACEDONIA, ALEXANDER, GREECE,IKEA
MACEDONIA is GREECE and will always be GREECE- (if they are desperate to steal a name, Monkeydonkeys suits them just fine)
ΚΑΤΩ Η ΣΥΓΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΔΟΤΩΝ!!!
Strabo – “Geography”
“There remain of Europe, first, Macedonia and the parts of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzantium; secondly, Greece; and thirdly, the islands that are close by. Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece, yet now, since I am following the nature and shape of the places geographically, I have decided to classify it apart from the rest of Greece and to join it with that part of Thrace which borders on it and extends as far as the mouth of the Euxine and the Propontis. Then, a little further on, Strabo mentions Cypsela and the Hebrus River, and also describes a sort of parallelogram in which the whole of Macedonia lies.”
(Strab. 7.fragments.9)
ΚΚΕ, ΚΝΕ, ΟΝΝΕΔ, ΑΓΟΡΑ,ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ,ΝΕΑ,ΦΩΝΗ,ΦΕΚ,ΝΟΜΟΣ,LIFO,MACEDONIA, ALEXANDER, GREECE,IKEA
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WHENCE CAME <strong>THE</strong> ACHEANS ? 389<br />
the inroad of the Cimmerians as for as the Aeolid and<br />
lonia^"<br />
Eusebius places the first Cimmerian invasion of Asia<br />
three liundred years before the first<br />
Olympiad (107G K.C.)'*'.<br />
(3ne of the chief tribes of the Cimmerians who took part<br />
in these raids was that of the Treres (or Trerones) who<br />
sacked<br />
Magnesia'.<br />
It thus appears that the Cimbric movements through<br />
Thrace into Asia, and their ravages there as well as their<br />
settlements in the region between the Danube and the Tyras,<br />
were but a repetition of those of the Cimmerians some<br />
centuries earlier, just as the Celts themselves were to be<br />
followed later on <strong>by</strong> the Goths.<br />
Who were these Cimmerians and whence came they<br />
? Are<br />
we to suppose with Rawlinson^ that bands of those settled<br />
in southern Russia had habitually passed down through Thrace<br />
and in concert with 'I'hracian tribes had crossed the Bosphorus<br />
into Asia ? This is in itself not probable, and if we can give<br />
an explanation which has a better base in history, it niay be<br />
reject(i(l without regret.<br />
We have seen the Celts coming down from the head ot<br />
Italy and passing either down into (Jreece, or crossing the<br />
B(jsphorus or Hellespont into Asia, or othei's of them advancing<br />
down the Danube to its mouth and thus into the<br />
very part<br />
of southci'u Russia, where the Cimmerians had<br />
dwelt in the seventh centuiy<br />
U.c.<br />
It<br />
may not therefore be irrational to suggest that the<br />
(Jinnaei'ians of South Russia were but an advanced body of<br />
t;47.<br />
-<br />
Clinm. CriiKiii. I'lirs I'n.^t.. ]>.<br />
;it>:i (cd. 'Slul).<br />
siicli earlier inroaiis. it \)\ no<br />
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Tliiiu^'li Hciodotiis (lois not irf.T to any<br />
means follows tliat we are to re^^'ard as uiilnie liis statement that tlie Cimmerians<br />
to whom he refers made their way into Asia round the ea>t end of tlie<br />
r'(jntus, lieeause Stralio and othcM writers tesiit'y to invasions of Cimmerians<br />
iTito Asia from 'I'liraee an! across the Thiaeian IJosphorus. This was the attitude<br />
of Ni(diuhl', hut its fallacy lias heen pointed out hy I'rof. l;a\\lin>on.<br />
{Ilistari/ III' lhritiis, vol. I. \\. l;')('i.|<br />
It<br />
may have heen that thi' Cimmerians<br />
knew lliat it was ho|ieless to attoini't a moM'meiit into I'lurop,' owinj: to the<br />
presence in that ilirection of ])owerful and warlike trihes. >uch as ihe other<br />
Celt~, w)io were certainlv a powerful factor in this direction.<br />
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llawlinson, ///, ViWrjuwu.<br />
yuriiis. '2: Tioi' lia/ifidpuji', Ki/j./xfpiwi' p.iv e't dpxfl^< rorf 5i
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