A History of Greece - 1854 Author:William Smith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HISTORY OF GREECE. Vale of Tempe in Thesssljr. fNTRODUCTION. OUTLINES OF GRECIAN GEOGRAPHY. 1. The three peninsulas of Southern Europe. § 2. Position an... more »d boundaries of Greece. § 3. Size of the country. § 4. Name. | 5. Northern Greece: Thcssaly and Epirus. §6. Central Greece: ita principal divisions and mountains. §7. Eastern half of Central Greece: Doris, Phocis, Locris, Boeotia, Attica, Mcgaris. § 8. "Western halt of Central Greece: Ozolian Locris, Etolia, Acarnania- §; Peloponnesus: Arcadia. §10. Achaia, Argolis, Laconia, llessenia/Elis. gn.Thcforms the southern part, is in the shape of a triangle with its base extending from the top of the Adriatic to the mouths of the river Danube, and having its two sides washed by the sea. $ 2. At the fortieth degree of latitude a chain of mountains called the Cambunian, and continued under the name of Lingon, runs across the peninsula from east to west, and forms the northern boundary of Greece. At a time when the Mediterranean was the great highway of commerce and civilization, no position could be more favorable than that of Greece. The JSgean sea, which bathes its eastern shores, is studded with numerous islands, inviting the timid mariner from one to the other, and thus establishing an easy communication between Asia and Greece. Towards the south it faces one of the most fertile portions of Africa; and on the west it is divided from Italy by a narrow channel, which in one part is not more than thirty miles in breadth. $ 3. Greece, which commences at the fortieth degree of latitude, does not extend farther than the thirty-sixth. Its greatest length from Mount Olympus to Cape Tanarum Is not more than 250 English miles ; its greatest breadth from the western coast of Acarnania to Marathon in Attica is only 180 miles. Its sur...« less