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 Translation for 'Hecataeus of Miletus' from English to Bulgarian
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NOUN   Hecataeus of Miletus | -
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Hecataeus of Miletus {noun}
Хекатей {м} от Милет
Partial Matches
of {prep}от
because of {prep}заради
suggestive (of{adj}подтикващ (към)
ahead of {adv}преди
of course {adv}естествено [прен.]
of course {adv}разбира се
west ofзападно от
area of application {noun}област {ж} на приложение
time of day {noun}време {ср} (на деня)
геог.
Sea of Okhotsk {noun}
Охотско море {ср}
изк.
body of work {noun}
творчество {ср}
to be afraid of {verb}страх ме е от
to consist of sth. {verb}съставен съм от нщ.
a lot of {adv}много
проф.
leave of absence {noun}
отпуска {ж}
lots of timesмного пъти
to be ashamed of {verb}срамувам се от
метео.
bolt of lightning {noun}
светкавица {ж}
геог.
Sea of Japan {noun}
Японско море {ср}
религ.
Society of Jesus {noun}
Йезуитски орден {м}
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Usage Examples English
  • In ancient literature the Dexari are mentioned only by the ancient Greek writer Hecataeus of Miletus (6th century BC), cited by Stephanus of Byzantium (6th century AD).
  • The concept of a spherical Earth displaced earlier beliefs in a flat Earth: In early Mesopotamian mythology, the world was portrayed as a disk floating in the ocean with a hemispherical sky-dome above, and this forms the premise for early world maps like those of Anaximander and Hecataeus of Miletus.
  • Other ancient writers who described the hair of the Thracians as red include Hecataeus of Miletus, Galen, Clement of Alexandria, and Julius Firmicus Maternus.
  • The earliest reference to Armenia was made by the Greek historian Hecataeus of Miletus in 525 BC.
  • Among them, the first was the priest Gabriele Barrio who, on the basis of the work of the historiographer Stephanus of Byzantium (who in turn drew on Hecataeus of Miletus), identified the ancient Oenotrian settlement of Patycos with the city of Paola, by assonance with the modern toponym.

  • The Adria was until the 8th century BC the main channel of the Po River into the Adriatic Sea but ceased to exist before the 1st century BC. Hecataeus of Miletus (c.550 – c.476 BC) asserted that both the Etruscan harbor city of Adria and the Adriatic Sea had been named after it.
  • The other settlement, at the edge of a promontory between Teos and Lebedos, referred to by Hecataeus of Miletus (500 BC) as a "city" and by Artemidorus of Ephesus (100 BC) as merely a "place" is Myonnesos.
  • They have been also mentioned as "Gordi" by Hecataeus of Miletus c. 520 BC.
  • The term Illyrians was used to describe the inhabitants of the area as far back as the late 6th century BC by Hecataeus of Miletus.
  • The map probably inspired the Greek historian Hecataeus of Miletus to draw a more accurate version.

  • Nyons was settled in the 6th century BC as "Nyrax" by a Gallic tribe, probably the Segusiavi or the Sequani. Hecataeus of Miletus mentioned Nyrax around 500 BC when writing about the Celts.
  • Greek author Hecataeus of Miletus mentions that around 500 BC, the Eastern Adriatic region was settled by Histrians, Liburnians, and Illyrians.
  • He relied on the work of several previous historians at Miletus, of which fragments and mention have survived, chief of which was Hecataeus of Miletus.
  • According to Tacitus, among other heroes and gods, the Germans especially worshipped Heracles as their god of war with their battle songs, which may have inspired Hecataeus of Miletus to use the name "Κελτοί" ("Keltoi") for the Celtic "Hallstatt" tribes of Western and South-Western Germany, since Celtus was the son of Heracles and Keltine in Greek mythology.
  • The form of the "periplus" is at least as old as the earliest Greek historian, the Ionian Hecataeus of Miletus.

  • The Ancient Greeks called the region "Kasperia", which has been identified with "Kaspapyros" of Hecataeus of Miletus ( Stephanus of Byzantium) and "Kaspatyros" of Herodotus (3.102, 4.44).
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