Mediterranean: Portrait of a SeaPenguin, 2000 - 573 σελίδες For thousands of years people have sailed, traded, and fought across the waters of the Mediterranean. On its shores and islands they have built cities, colonised, dreamed, conquered and fallen. This sea, which brings together three continents, was the cradle of western civilisation. |
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... once forested and thick with hardy plants that held the soil against the winter rains . In vain may one look for springs and streams mentioned by classical writers . True , they were there once , but with the deforestation and the ...
... once forested and thick with hardy plants that held the soil against the winter rains . In vain may one look for springs and streams mentioned by classical writers . True , they were there once , but with the deforestation and the ...
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... once devastated Sicily in their struggle to establish which of their two leading cities was to dominate the Greek world , it was Greece itself which now became the battlefield in the struggle between Pompey and Caesar as to who was to ...
... once devastated Sicily in their struggle to establish which of their two leading cities was to dominate the Greek world , it was Greece itself which now became the battlefield in the struggle between Pompey and Caesar as to who was to ...
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... once again under the rule of one monarch . In- deed , the very ease of his first successes against the barbarians must have encouraged Justinian in this belief , for , if the territories were so easy to recover , they should be equally ...
... once again under the rule of one monarch . In- deed , the very ease of his first successes against the barbarians must have encouraged Justinian in this belief , for , if the territories were so easy to recover , they should be equally ...
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Maps 9 | 9 |
Illustrations ΙΟ Preface | 13 |
Book I | 17 |
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Aegean Alexandria allies ancient Arabs army Asia Minor Athenians Athens basin battle became British Byzantine Byzantium canal captured Carthage Carthaginians centre century B.C. Christian coast colonies conflict conquest Constantinople Corsica Crete Crusaders culture dominated early East eastern Mediterranean Egypt Egyptian Emperor enemy English Etruscans Euboea Europe European fact fish fleet force Fourth Crusade France French galleys Gibraltar Greece Greek H. A. L. Fisher harbour Herodotus hundred Ionian island Italian Italy knights land later Levant Levanzo mainland Malta Maltese mast Mediter Moslem mountain Napoleon naval navigation navy North Africa northern oars Odysseus once Ottoman Penguin period Persian Phoenicians port ranean Rhodes rich Roman Empire Rome routes sail sailors Saint John Sardinia ships Sicilian Sicily siege southern Spain Spartans strait Syracuse territory throughout trade trireme troops Turkish Turks Vandals Venetians Venice vessels victory West western whole wind