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Meanings of greek colony in English
City or trading post founded by Ancient Greeks in the 8th–6th centuries B.C.
Usage of greek colony in English
1
What were the principal Greek colonies on the shores of the Mediterranean?
2
The modern Marseilles, originally a Greek colony and a flourishing commercial centre.
3
The Greek colonies sometimes furnished a military force, but seldom any revenue.
4
The Greek colonies went to pieces long before the Greek civilization.
5
Once more a Greek colony was the pretext for a war.
6
The Greek colonies, as we have seen, were free and independent.
7
What king aided the Greek colonies in their war with Rome?
8
The first of the Greek colonies in southern Italy was the city of Syb'a-ris.
9
The earliest Greek colonies were those founded on the western shores of Asia Minor.
10
Nor did Alexander ever found satrapies or plant any Greek colonies in the Punjab.
11
The Greek colonies of Sicily had fallen under her sway.
12
These were, as you remember, Greek colonies founded on the coast of Asia Minor.
13
It was filled with Barbarians (excepting the few Greek colonies on the coast).
14
He was born at Miletus, a Greek colony in Asia Minor, about the year B.C.
15
Twelve men from the Greek colonies embarked at Annaba in a sloop belonging to the Numidians.
16
The shores of Asia Minor and of the Mediterranean were soon fringed with rich Greek colonies.
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