Main article: Northern IslesIn AD 43 and 77 the Roman authors Pomponius Mela and Pliny the Elder referred to the seven islands they call Haemodae and Acmodae respectively, both of which are assumed to ...
Great Britain is the largest island of the United Kingdom. Politically, Great Britain refers to the whole of England, Scotland and Wales in combination, but not Northern Ireland; it includes islands s ...
Strabo says that Pytheas gave an account of "what is beyond the Rhine as far as Scythia", which he, Strabo, thinks is false. In the geographers of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire, such ...
Pliny says that Timaeus (born about 350 BC) believed Pytheas' story of the discovery of amber. Strabo says that Dicaearchus (died about 285 BC) did not trust the stories of Pytheas. That is all the in ...
Major religious communities in Marseille include :Roman Catholic (405,000)Muslim (150,000)Armenian Apostolic (80,000)Jewish (80,000, making Marseille the third largest urban Jewish community in Europe ...
Marseille is the second largest city in France after Paris and the centre of the third largest metropolitan area in France after Paris and Lyon. To the east, starting in the small fishing village of C ...
The political fallout from the deep disaffection of African Christians is supposedly a crucial factor in the ease with which Carthage and the other centres were captured in the 5th century by Gaiseric ...
Carthage was built on a promontory with sea inlets to the north and the south. The city's location made it master of the Mediterranean's maritime trade. All ships crossing the sea had to pass between ...
This Hanno is called the Navigator to distinguish him from a number of other Carthaginians with this name, including the perhaps more prominent, though later, Hanno the Great (see Hanno for others of ...
In pre-Columbian times, the north-western areas of modern Central America were part of the Mesoamerican civilization. The Native American societies of Mesoamerica occupied the land ranging from centra ...
From the 10th century BC, the Phoenicians' expansive culture led them to establish cities and colonies throughout the Mediterranean. Canaanite deities like Baal and Astarte were being worshipped from ...
The name Phoenicians, like Latin Poenī (adj. poenicus, later pūnicus), comes from Greek Φο?νικε? (Phoínikes), attested since Homer and influenced by pho?nix "Tyrian purple, crimson; murex ...
A scientific study is a method of evaluating medicines, treatments, and physician care using controlled trials and evaluating the results using statistics. Researcher John P. A. Ioannidis made waves w ...
Portuguese Serpa Pinto was the fourth explorer to cross Africa from west to east and the first to lay down a reasonably accurate route between Bié (in present-day Angola) and Lealui. In 1877, Serpa P ...
British explorer James Cook was the first to map Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean during which he held to have achieved the first European contact with the eastern coast ...
