A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…

Name: A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…
Author: James Ussher

A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Usher.A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Ussher.

James Ussher 1581–1656Oxford: printed by Henry Hall, 1643

[2], 32, [3] p. · 8.4k words · Wing U177 · ESTC R27036

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Chapter 1: Of the Asia which by the Romans was first properly so called; and the several members…Chapter 1: Of the Asia which by the Romanes was first properly so called; and the severall members…

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Betwixt this lesser and the greater Phrygia was Mysia interposed: the borders of each other being so confusedly intermingled together, ^athat it was a very difficult matter to distinguish them. And as the lesser Phrygia was called the Hellespontian, and a difference thereby put betwixt it and the greater: so this Mysia likewise, being in the country (although further removed from the Fretum or Strait) of Hellespont, had the like name of the Hellespontian Mysia given unto it; thereby to discriminate it from the •strian ^*Mysia or Moesia: the Hellespontian Mysia and Phrygia jointly making up that entire Province, which in the division of the Empire made by Constantine (because it was settled under the government of a ^bConsular President) had the name of the ^cConsular Hellespont bestowed upon it.

Betwixt this lesser and the greater Phrygia was Mysia interposed: the borders of each other being so confusedly intermingled together, ^athat it was a very difficult matter to distinguish them. And as the lesser Phrygia was called the Hellespontian, and a difference thereby put betwixt it and the greater: so this Mysia likewise, being in the countrey (although further removed from the Fretum or Strait) of Hellespont, had the like name of the Hellespontian Mysia given unto it; thereby to discriminate it from the •strian ^*Mysia or Moesia: the Hellespontian Mysia and Phrygia joyntly making up that intire Province, which in the division of the Empire made by Constantine (because it was setled under the government of a ^bConsular President) had the name of the ^c

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A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…

CHAP. II. Of the Lydian Asia, and the seven Metropolitical Cities thereof.

CHAP. II. Of the Lydian Asia, and the seven Metropoliticall Cities thereof.

CHAP, III. Of the Proconsular Asia, and the several alterations of the limits thereof.

CHAP, III. Of the Proconsular Asia, and the severall alterations of the limits thereof.

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CHAP. II. Of the Lydian Asia, and the seven Metropolitical Cities thereof.

CHAP. II. Of the Lydian Asia, and the seven Metropoliticall Cities thereof.

CHAP, III. Of the Proconsular Asia, and the several alterations of the limits thereof.

CHAP, III. Of the Proconsular Asia, and the severall alterations of the limits thereof.

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