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  • They moved out into the islandless waters of what the Greeks called the lonian Sea, a four-hundred-mile expanse of ocean separating Greece from her conqueror and student, Rome.

    The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

  • A third-century Syrian hermit and a second-century B.C. lonian adventurer were gathered by two more teams.

    There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

  • Such wanderings, which recur in the historical Baby - lonian Exile and in the later history of the Jews, lie

    MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES FRANCIS LEE UTLEY 1968

  • S. Austin saith in the eighth book of the City of God that Ionique is a kind of philosophers, Italian, which be towards Italy, and lonian which be of the parts of Greece, and because that Denis was a sovereign philosopher he was named Ionicus.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

  • The Cyrus Cylinder, inscribed about 539 BC by the order of Cyrus the Great of Persia, abolished slavery and allowed Jews and other nationalities who had been enslaved under Baby - lonian rule to return to their native lands.

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