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	Malians (Greek tribe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Malians were a people in antiquity, who lived at the mouth of the river Spercheios in Greece.
		In the town of Anthele the Malians had an important temple of Demeter, an early centre of the delphinian Amphictiony.
		Together with the Oitaians and the Ainians the Malians became members of the Corinthian League, and since 235 B.C. of the league of Aetolia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malians_(Greek_tribe) (210 words)

	Trachis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to Greek mythology Trachis was the home of Ceyx and Alcyone.
		During the Greco/Persian wars, the fertile plains of heraclea saw the landing and encampment of the Persian army as they marched to Thermopylae.
		During the Greek war of Independence the area has been famous for its resistance fighters or "klepts" (mountain fighters/ bandits), including those who opposed the Turkish " Harach " poll tax upon agricultural commodities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trachis (285 words)

	The Seven Great Monarchies, by George Rawlinson, Fifth Monarchy, Part C.
		The Greeks of the coast, who had offended the Great King by their refusal of his overtures, were not to be allowed to pass quietly into the condition of tributaries; and there were certain native races in the south-western corner of Asia Minor which declined to submit without a struggle to the new conqueror.
		Tribes also, included within the geographical limits of a satrapy, were sometimes recognized as independent; and petty wars were carried on between these hordes and their neighbors.
		If the Greeks of Asia, like so many of their brethren in Europe, had grown weary of their tyrants and were desirous of rising against them, they would be compelled to contemplate the chances of a successful resistance to the Persians.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/6/1/6/16165/16165-h/raw5c.htm (20080 words)

	Macedonia for the Macedonians
		In the course of the second pre-Christian millennium, the ancient Greeks descended in several migratory waves as goatherds and shepherds from the interior of the Balkans to Greece.
		By the middle of the fourth century BC, the Greek settlers were expelled from Macedonia and their cities, including Aristotle's native Stragira, razed to the ground by the Macedonian king Philip II (360-336).
		Greek scholarship underestimates the migration of peoples, which fundamentally redrew the ethnic map of Europe, and especially of the Balkans, during the early Byzantine period.
	www.makedonija.info /ancient.html (6233 words)

	Hellenic Tribes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Greek civilization grew out of a welter of various Hellenic tribal nations which had occupied the region from time immemorial or had entered from elsewhere at an early date.
		A major Hellenic group of closely related tribes or septs, the Dorians are regarded both in archeology and in legend as the conquerors of the Peloponessus.
		Proto-Hellenic tribe inhabiting Boeotia alongside the Aones, Leleges, and Temmikes.
	www.hostkingdom.net /gktrib.html (3300 words)

	Greek Mythology: FAMILY OF POSEIDON
		AIOLOS (or HELLEN) A Prince of the island of Ikaria (in the Greek Aegean).
		AKHAIOS A King of Akhaia and Sikyonia (in Southern Greece) and Eponym of the Akhaian tribes.
		BOIOTOS A Prince of the island of Ikaria (in the Greek Aegean).
	www.theoi.com /Olympios/PoseidonFamily.html (8583 words)

	Frequently asked questions on Macedonia
		Was the Macedonian tongue a greek dialect or not?
		Since the Macedonians were pretty much isolated from the Greeks of Southern Greece up to the early 5th century BC, the words 'Hellas' and 'Hellen' were not used by them to describe collectively the lands of various hellenic tribes, as this was also true for all the other greek tribes until the 8-7th century BC.
		In the volume "Macedonia: 4000 years of Greek history and civilization" Professor M. Sakellariou examined the words known to be unique in the macedonian dialect of greek and related their root to the roots of words of other Greek dialects.
	www.greece.org /themis/Macedonia/faq.htm (10342 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Pausanias: Description of Greece, Book I: Attica
		Who the man was who established ten tribes instead of four, and changed their old names to new ones--all this is told by Herodotus.
		What is depicted is not the crisis of the battle nor when the action had advanced as far as the display of deeds of valor, but the beginning of the fight when the combatants were about to close.[1.15.2] On the middle wall are the Athenians and Theseus fighting with the Amazons.
		All the Greeks that were serving as mercenaries in the armies of Darius and his satraps Alexander had wished to deport to Persia, but Leosthenes was too quick for him, and brought them by sea to Europe.
	www.fordham.edu /HALSALL/ancient/pausanias-bk1.html (19483 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 80 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		We know, however, that it was originally composed of twelve tribes (not cities or states, it must be observed), each of which tribes contained various independent cities or states.
		§ 2) leave us in doubt whether the remaining tribe were the Dolopes or Delphians; but as the Delphians could hardly be called a distinct tribe, their nobles appearing to have been Dorians, it seems probable that the Dolopes were originally members, and afterwards supplanted by the Delphians.
		§ 2), according to which its component states returned deputies, or that the vote of the tribe was determined by a majority of votes of the different states of that tribe.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-dgra/0087.html (944 words)

	All Empires History Forum: Alexander did not care about Helenism nor Helenization
		In the mythological constructs, Ion was the son of Xuthus (Greek) and Creusa (Pelasgian), daughter of Erechtheus, Pelasgian king of Athens.
		The corpus of Greek words which were not originally Greek are not random either, but show a pattern which demonstrate that the Greeks adopted non-Greek terms for various metals, fauna, flora, parts of a dwelling, and dwelling building materials.
		After all, the Attic dialect, which later evolved in the Koene, the "common" Greek language that was the lingua franka in the Mediterranean for several centuries, was the dominant dialect for the "civilized" Greeks everywhere.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1311&PN=2 (10773 words)

	Macedonia FAQ: Who were the Macedonians?
		The "Greek identity of Macedonia" had for long time been "proven" with the hypothesis that the ancient Macedonians were a Doric tribe and their language a Doric dialect.
		The hypothesis that ancient Macedonian was closest to the Thessalian and Magnesian Aeolian dialect is based upon a fragment from Greek mythology in Hesiod (Fr.
		Because contemporary Macedonian language is also a Slavic language, and according to a lot of research the ancient Macedonian language was of the same kind as the language of the Pellastis, being the oldest recognized Slavic language, it is very likely that contemporary Macedonian in certain laxic elem ents is like the Homeric Language.
	faq.macedonia.org /history/11.1.html (4044 words)

	Αντίβαρο - Frequently Asked Questions on Macedonia
		As of the hellenistic period almost all Greeks were using the attic dialect for their communication while all the other dialects (of greek) were dropped from regular use.
		The previously flourishing greek community of Thessaloniki was destroyed and the Greek population of the city was reduced by around 70%.
		During the wars, prior to 1920, close to 16,000 Greeks and 30,000 Bulgars fled to their respective homelands and after the Neuilly Treaty the corresponding numbers were 30,000 and 53,000 [the figures were taken from [9]].
	www.antibaro.gr /national/macedonia_faq.html (18615 words)

	Macedonians were Hellenic: Sources!!! - www.ezboard.com
		To Greek literary writers before the Hellenistic period the Macedonians were 'barbarians.' The term referred to their way of life and their institutions, which were those of the 'ethne' and not of the city-state, and it did not refer to their speech.
		They were Greeks, spoke a similar dialect to that of Macedonia, suffered just as much from the depredations of the Illyrians and were in principle the natural partners of the Macedonian king who wished to tackle the Illyrian problem at its roots." Malcolm Errington, "A History of Macedonia", California University Press, 1990.
		The Macedonian rulers claimed to be descendants of Heracles and therefore genuine Greeks, a claim which the orators of the Athenian assembly scoffed at and rejected.
	pub18.ezboard.com /fbalkansmacedoniaforum.showNextMessage?topicID=274.topic (7042 words)

	Pausanias Description of Greece, Book I: Attica
		[1.14.2] The Greeks who dispute most the Athenian claim to antiquity and the gifts they say they have received from the gods are the Argives, just as among those who are not Greeks the Egyptians compete with the Phrygians.
		It is said, then, that when Demeter came to Argos she was received by Pelasgus into his home, and that Chrysanthis, knowing about the rape of the Maid, related the story to her.
		There stands too Olympiodorus, who won fame for the greatness of his achievements, especially in the crisis when he displayed a brave confidence among men who had met with continuous reverses, and were therefore in despair of winning a single success in the days to come.
	www.piney.com /ClassPausaniasAttica.html (17746 words)

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