Pre-Historic Nations : Or, Inquiries Concerning Some of the Great Peoples And Civilizations of Antiquity, And Their Probable Relation to a Still Older Civilization of the Ethiopians Or Cushites of Arabia
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Would a thorough exploration tell us what they signify ? THE PELASGIANS. There is evidence to show that at one period — very re- mote certainly, more than 2000 years before Christ, we may suppose — a people known as Pelasgi, or Pelasgians, be- gan an organized dominion which included Asia Minor, the Grecian Peninsula, and the whole of Northern Greece. The historical traditions of the Greeks relating to this people refer chiefly to the time when the Pelasgians were broken into many separate trib...es or communities under various names. But there are references to the older time, previ- ous to the breaking up of their extended dominion known as Pelasgia. Strabo says (bk. xiii., oh. iii., sect. 3) " that the Pelasgi were a great nation ; history, it is said, fur- nishes other evidence, for Menecrates of Elea, in his work on the foundation of cities, says the whole of the present Ionian coast, beginning from Mycale and the neighboring islands, was formerly inhabited by the Pelasgi." Again (bk.
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