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- proper noun A
region that is home to the city ofVolos , located in the southwestern tip ofThessaly in north centralGreece .
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Agnostes Ptyches Katochis kai Adistasis 1941-1944: Istoriki Erevna gia to Nomo Magnisias (Unknown aspects of the occupation and the resistance in Magnesia).
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Thucydides terms it “Asiatic” to distinguish it from the coastal strip of southwest Thessaly also called Magnesia Map 1.137, BX.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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Thucydides terms it “Asiatic” to distinguish it from the coastal strip of southwest Thessaly also called Magnesia Map 1.137, BX.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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There was another see in Asia called Magnesia ad Mæandrum, which was situated on the Meander in Ionia.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Opposite to these islands the line of the coast, having passed around the point of a mountainous and rocky promontory called Magnesia, turns suddenly to the westward, and runs in that direction for about thirty miles, when it again turns to the southward and eastward as before.
Xerxes Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841
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In its neighborhood was the city called Magnesia, in favor of whose inhabitants our poet is supposed to have addressed this supplication to
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
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Oroites however, having his residence at that Magnesia which is situated upon the river
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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Oroites however, having his residence at that Magnesia which is situated upon the river Maiander, sent Myrsos the son of Gyges, a
The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883
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Representatives from the nearby towns of Magnesia and Tralles soon arrived to surrender their cities to Alexander.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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I was thinking Phillips Milk of Magnesia or Metamucil were more interested in that face.
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