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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
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Greece—Rise of Macedon 235 of the modern Balkan range; on the west, the borders of Epirus and Illyria; onthe east, the river Strymon, and on the south Thessaly. Asa whole, the coun-try is mountainous, especially in the south and west, but it has a number oflarge plains of great fertility. In remote years Macedon was famous for itsgold and silver mines and its productiveness in oil and wine. It containednumerous populous cities, the principal of which were Pella, the capital, Pydna,Thessalonica, Potida^, Olynthus, Philippi, and Amphipolis, some of which youwill remember as being mentioned in the Scriptures. The language of the Macedonians differed from and yet was allied to theGreek, but it is a singular fact that it contained words not used in the Greek,but preserved in Latin, which would indicate that the inhabitants and those ofGreece proper were united at a very ancient period, but that unknown causesprevented the early development of the Macedonians. The history of Macedon is va

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