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  Kosovo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In ancient times the area has been known as Dardania and was settled by a tribe with the same name.
The south of Kosovo was ruled by Macedonia since Alexander the Great's reign in the 4th century BC.
Dardania gave numerous leaders to both Rome and Constantinopolis.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Greece
The Greeks are a people who appear first in history as separated in various small States, but bound together by a common language, religion and civilization, in the south of the Balkan Peninsula, the islands around, and the coast of Asia Minor opposite.
The muddled, and not always honest, finances of the Government, the ludicrous internal politics, a widespread and not altogether unjust suspicion of Greek honesty and the odious type of Levantine Greek that one meets, have produced a strong reaction since the burst of Philhellenism at the time of the War of Independence.
However unsatisfactory things may still be, he has crossed the chasm that separates Europe and Christendom from Asia and Islam.
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 Rescure in ALBANIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The delay in telling the story of the rescue is due to the isolationist dictatorship that ruled Albania from the end of the Second World War until the early 1990s.
Albania is the only country in occupied Europe where Jews were not victims of the Nazi killing machine.ยน To understand the rescue of the Jews it is necessary to understand the general history of the Jews in Albania and a general view of Albania's history.
With the Italian invasion of Albania, in April, and the start of the global war in September, 1939, the refugees had to accept the fact they were in Albania for the duration of the War.
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 DACIA - LoveToKnow Article on DACIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
, in ancient geography, the land of the Daci, a large district of central Europe, bounded on the N. by the Carpathians, on the S. by the Danube, on the W. by the Pathissus (Theiss), on theE.
Aurelian (270275) withdrew the troops altogether and settled the Roman colonists on the south of the Danube, in Moesia, where he created the province Dacia Aureflani.
This was subsequently divided into Dacia Ripensis on the Danube, with capital Ratiaria (Arcar in Bosnia), and Dacia Mediterranea, with capital Sardica (Sofia, the capital ofBulgaria), the latter again being subdivided into Dardania and Dacia Mediterranea.
www.1911ency.org /D/DA/DACIA.htm   (1333 words)

  
 Roman Emperors - DIR Festus
The Marcomanni and Quadi were driven from the environs of Valeria, which are between the Danube and Drave, and a frontier between Romans and barbarians was established from Augusta Vindelicum through Noricum, Paennonia, and Moesia.
Illyricus has 18 provinces: two of Noricas, two of Pannonias, Valeria, Savia, Dalmatia, Moesia Superior, Dardania, two of Dacias, and in the Macedonic diocese are seven provinces: Macedonia, Thessaly, Achaea, two Epiruses, Praevalis, and Crete.
Earlier a Roman fleet obtained the coastal cities of Europe.
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 America & Britain in Prophecy -- Chapter 2: A Great Mystery of History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Evidently, when the Assyrians began to invade Israel in the eighth century B.C., the Danites--not only of the Promised Land, but from Greece as well--must have struck out in their ships to find and dwell with the vanguard of those Israelites who had already been settling Ireland for some time.
As we will see in the next chapter, there is abundant historical evidence to prove that many of the Ten Lost Tribes migrated even beyond this point in the centuries preceding Christ; but some of them still lingered here on the southern shores of the Black Sea in the days of Christ and His apostles.
This area was immediately west of the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian Sea--along the land route from western Asia into Europe.
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 THRACE - Online Information article about THRACE
Strabo as Thracians) had also crossed into what was later known as See also:
Mysia: closely connected with the Mysians were the Dardanii, of Trojan fame, who had a city Dardania or See also:
In Strabo's time a tribe called Dardanii, then reckoned Illyrian, living next the Thracian Bessi (in whose land was the See also:
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