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  iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Founded by the Phoceans 600 years BC (the city was then known as Phocee) then developed by the Romans (Massilia) as a...
Phoceans) at Marseille (Massalia) Ligurians occupy the mountainous back-country of the Alpes Maritimes From 600 BC: 350 oppida (castellaras) built in the [now] Alpes Maritimes.
Age (1800-700) and Iron Age were followed by the foundation of Massalia (Marseille) by the Phoceans who developed metallurgy and were active in trade at the close of the pre-historic period.
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 Athens News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It seems that sometime about 600BC a small fleet of powerful Phocean ships, commanded by Photis, landed on the lee shore of a small hill because it was secluded and protected from the fierce winds that sweep across the Mediterranean Sea from Africa.
When Phocean traders passed through the Straits of Gibraltar and went to silver-rich Tartessos, situated at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River in Spain, Arganthonios (who had ruled Tartessos for some 80 years) befriended them.
The ages-old Phocean ability to befriend foreigners came to its aid in its relations with Rome until it ran foul of internal Roman political intrigues.
www.athensnews.gr /athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=13112&t=06&m=A24&aa=1   (1371 words)

  
 Son Amar Apartments - Apartment - Salerno - The Amalfi Coast / Campania
that has populated since prehistoric time our planet; from the paleolitic man to the greek, from phoceans to the romans.
Numerous are the tracks remained on the land: churches, convents, magnificentplaces, and ancient medieval villages.
In the same period, the Phoceans founded the city of Elea (Velia for the Romans) where, in the IV sec.
www.italyby.com /sonamar/pages/faciliti.htm   (503 words)

  
 Treatise on Government, A
the father of Mnasis, and Euthucrates, the father of Onomarchus, which brought on the Phoceans the sacred war.
And this in general ought to be known, that whosoever has been the occasion of a state being powerful, whether private persons, or magistrates, a certain tribe, or any particular part of the citizens, or the multitude, be they who they will, will be the cause of disputes in the state.
For either some persons, who envy them the honours they have acquired, will begin to be seditious, or they, on account of the dignity they have acquired, will not be content with their former equality.
manybooks.net /pages/aristotletext04tgovt10/168.html   (104 words)

  
 The Constant Feud
The Carthaginians colonized western Sicily and Sardinia, the Phoceans of Massilia colonised Alalia in Corsica and Lipara, at the northern entrance to the Straits of Messina
In the ensuing battle, the Phoceans were victorious, but they lost 40 out of their 60 ships.
The sea battle with the Phoceans was only one episode of the continuing battle for the dominance of the ore trade between the mines in Spain and northern Europe and the customers in the Aegean and the Middle East.
www.eg-ban.com /constant-feud20.html   (13490 words)

  
 Provence (Traditional province, France)
In the VIIth century BP, Greek emigrants from Phocia (Asia Minor) founded Massilia (now Marseilles) in the area then inhabited by the Segobriges, where they brought olive-tree and vines.
Several daughter colonies were founded by the Phoceans, who developed industry and agriculture all over Provence.
Around 170 BP, the Phoceans called their Roman allies for help against the Ligurian tribes.
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 The Project Gutenberg eBook of History of France, by Guizot., Volume I.
But Nann, believing he recognized a commandment from his gods, accepted the Phocean as his son-in-law, and gave him as dowry the bay where he had landed, with some cantons of the territory around.
It is only with the sixth century before our era that we light upon the really historical expeditions of the Gauls away from Gaul, those, in fact, of which we may follow the course and estimate the effects.
Her founder, the Phocean Euxenes, had gone to Rome, it was said, and concluded a treaty with Tarquinius Priscus.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/1/9/5/11951/11951-h/11951-h.htm   (15770 words)

  
 Who were Lieutenants Tippett and McConnell? | Samizdata.net
It was founded by Phoceans (a Greek tribe from Asia Minor) & is commonly referred as Phocea.
Fascinating US (old) influence is to be found in Marseilles, which was also one of the rarest French provincial cities to have both a US & a Soviet consulate.
Gyptis, a Ligurian princess, daughter of Nann, king of Ligurians, finally married Protis, a Phocean landing on Lacydon (the ancient name of Vieux-Port, Old-Harbour = heart of Marseilles).
www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/004194.html   (4080 words)

  
 Thucydides, The Peloponnesian Wars, vol. 2 (Hobbes trans.) ToC: The Online Library of Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Corinthians seek to turn the cities of Pelopon– And the Corinthians and Argives, being now leagued, went to Tegea to cause it to revolt from the Lacedæmonians, conceiving it to be an important piece1 [of Peloponnesus], and making account, if they gained it to their side, they should easily obtain the whole.
The Lacedæmonians being come entire to Oresteium, from thence sent back the sixth part of their army, in which they put both the youngest and the eldest sort, for the custody of the city; and with the rest marched on to Tegea: and not long after arrived also their confederates of Arcadia.
But these had too short a warning; nor was it easy for them, unless they came all together and stayed for one another, to come through the enemy’s country, which lay between and barred them of passage.
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 Tour Bouches-du-Rhône (English)
Towering over the harbour, the mediaeval castle of the Lord of Les Baux (13th Century) keeps a watchful eye on the town.
Founded in 600 B.C. by the Phoceans, the city of Massalia, known today as Marseille, has always been a crossroads of ideas, culture, and civilisation.
An amazingly cosmopolitan port and commercial centre, it is also a city of natural beauty.
www.globalfest.com /tour_en/tour_en_Bouches-du-Rhone.htm   (427 words)

  
 Parmenides of Elea
Elea was founded around 540 BC by the Phoceans.
Many Phoceans left their city and with their Pentekonteres ships moved to the island of Chios and from there they went to Corsica (Kyrnos).
From there some went to Massalia (Marseille) and Calabria a place called Hyele that later was called Elea (or Velia by the Romans)
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Parmenides.htm   (388 words)

  
 The Battle of Tempi, 480 BC (DBA Battle Scenario)
Troops from the designated forces of Leonidas and the Thessalians must be deployed in separate commands, and may not be redistributed between commands, but may be supplemented by troops added from the other Greek Allies.
Phoceans and Locrians must be deployed together in the same command.
The Persians are invaders, so the Greeks deploy to the game board first.
www.fanaticus.org /DBA/battles/Tempi480BC   (610 words)

  
 Lavandula angustifolia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Lavender was brought to Britain by the Romans.
The Romans and the Phoceans were most responsible for the spread of lavender throughout Europe and France, taking it with them everywhere they went in order to have local supplies of lavender oil, which they used extensively in bath water and soap as well as in many other ways (9).
The soil must be loose for good drainage and aeration.
www-pub.naz.edu:9000 /~grnhouse/lavandula_angustifolia/lavender.html   (794 words)

  
 Appian's History of the Syrian Wars
The translation was made by Horace White; notes and additions in
[§21] While these things were going on in the city, Manius received the supplications of the Phoceans, the Chalcideans, and others who had cooperated with Antiochus, and he relieved their fears.
He and Philip ravaged Aetolia and reduced its cities.
www.livius.org /ap-ark/appian/appian_syriaca_05.html   (1455 words)

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