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	HOMERIC GEOGRAPHY
		Thus, it could easilly be assumed, these apparatuses were preconceived endeavours, and wholly independent of a story-line into which they were subsequently braided.
		is the schematic balance in the geographical distribution of the geonyms of any geographical concept (not unlike the schematic balance of the four cardinal points,
		This schematic balance requires three or more geonyms to establish a realtionship with each other.
	www.homer.com.mx /Homeric_Geography/Homeric_Geography.html (224 words)

	SEA
		It seems particularly significant, that, in the Odyssey, the name of the IKARIAN MAIN or [IKAROPONTOS] is not a geonym included in the structure of a geographical paradigm for The Sea.
		This fact obeys, certainly, to the utter moral decadence of the Wanderings of Odysseus, such that there is not even a name for the waters of the western tip of NERITON (Peljesac) which he has criss-crossed back and forth time-and-again.
		The open sea to the west, beyond LEMNOS (Vis) and IMBROS (Bisevo), as distinguished from the sea channels among the islands close to the mainland in the east.
	www.troya.com.mx /Sea_Iliad/SEA.html (981 words)

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		There seems to be substantial agreement among the references I consulted that the geonym Africa derives from the ethnonym of ancestors to today's Berbers.
		Some sources claim that ethnonym was Afer (sg.) and Afri (pl.) while others give the names Afrigii and Afridi, supposedly derived from the Arabic "afira" = "to be dusty" (afar = dust).
		When Romans added Carthage to their empire, the ethnonym was transformed into a geonym to name the entire province, Ifriquia.
	www.freewebs.com /siyanbola/dyk.htm (1168 words)

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		The origins of the geonym itself are still being debated.
		The dominant view is that it owes its existence to the ancestors of today's Berbers who referred to themselves as Afer (singular) and Afri (plural).
		The ethnonym became the geonym for the whole region of today's North Africa, and the Arabs transliterated this into Afriquia.
	www.goedgedacht.org.za /new/debates/021109ar.doc (4785 words)

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