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  • We should clarify that Magna Graecia is the name given to the coastal areas of southern Italy colonised by Greek settlers in the eighth century BC, though in "Give Greece a chance" Magazine we employed it to refer to the idea of Great Greece, the Greek-speaking or Greek-influenced world that stretched from Italy to the Caspian.

    For the record 2011

  • This was once Magna Graecia, Greater Greece, a region of Greek colonies whose prosperity eventually outstripped that of the mother country.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • This was once Magna Graecia, Greater Greece, a region of Greek colonies whose prosperity eventually outstripped that of the mother country.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • This was once Magna Graecia, Greater Greece, a region of Greek colonies whose prosperity eventually outstripped that of the mother country.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • This was once Magna Graecia, Greater Greece, a region of Greek colonies whose prosperity eventually outstripped that of the mother country.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Ambassadors and retinue from the Constantinopolitan King had kissed the ground before Omar and had delivered their embassage, they brought out the presents, which were fifty damsels of the choicest from Graecia-land, and fifty Mamelukes in tunics of brocade, belted with girdles of gold and silver, each wearing in his ears hoops of gold with pendants of fine pearls costing a thousand ducats every one.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Graecia-land and defeat his foe, the glory will be thine.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Multi factum hoc cognovere, quod in media Graecia gestum sit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Graecia, and Rome, the same times that are most renowned for arms are, likewise, most admired for learning, so that the greatest authors and philosophers, and the greatest captains and governors, have lived in the same ages.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • Graecia and the state of Rome; the histories whereof occupying the middle part of time, have more ancient to them histories which may by one common name be termed the antiquities of the world; and after them, histories which may be likewise called by the name of modern history.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

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