A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . — Greeks is not a name which the people whobore it applied to themselves. It was a name given themby their kinsfolk, the called themselves Hellenes,and their land they called Hel-las. Hellas, or Greece proper, in-cluded that portion of the penin-sula which lies south of MountOlympus, and is bounded by theAegean, the Mediterranean, andthe Adriatic. Hellas is some-what smaller than Portugal; butit is itself divided by the moun-tain ranges which cross it fromnorth to south and from east towest, into a nimiber of sm
A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . — Greeks is not a name which the people whobore it applied to themselves. It was a name given themby their kinsfolk, the called themselves Hellenes,and their land they called Hel-las. Hellas, or Greece proper, in-cluded that portion of the penin-sula which lies south of MountOlympus, and is bounded by theAegean, the Mediterranean, andthe Adriatic. Hellas is some-what smaller than Portugal; butit is itself divided by the moun-tain ranges which cross it fromnorth to south and from east towest, into a nimiber of smallerdistricts, each with a seacoastof its own, and (in almost every instance) with one or more commodious harbors. There are nonavigable rivers, but communication between different placesis easier by sea than by land. It follows that the physicalfeatures of the country fitted it for the development of manysmall active and independent states. The Grecian States. — Greece included (1) ISTorthern Greece,lying north of the Malian and Ambracian gulfs; (2) Central 59. Zeus of {Vatican Museum, Rome)
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