potamic

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Thus, with Metschnikoff we recognise the succession of potamic, thalassic, and oceanic civilisations; with Reclus we see the regular distribution of minor and major towns to have been largely influenced not only by geographical position but by convenient journey distances.

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  1. Pertaining to, connected with, or dependent on rivers. [Rare.] The commercial situation of the trading towns of North Germany, admirable so long as the trade of the world was chiefly potamic or thalassic in character, lost nearly all its value when at the opening of the sixteenth century commerce became oceanic. The Academy, Oct. 26, 1889, p. 265.

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  • Thus, with Metschnikoff we recognise the succession of potamic, thalassic, and oceanic civilisations; with Reclus we see the regular distribution of minor and major towns to have been largely influenced not only by geographical position but by convenient journey distances. —  Civics: as Applied Sociology
 

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  1. from Greek ποταμός, a river (see potation), + -ic.
 

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