coast-provinces

Updated: June 25, 2025

IV. I. Western Asia It is very probable that the extraordinary drought, which is the chief obstacle now to agriculture in the Crimea and in these regions generally, has been greatly increased by the disappearance of the forests of central and southern Russia, which formerly to some extent protected the coast-provinces from the parching northeast wind.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

IV. I. Western Asia It is very probable that the extraordinary drought, which is the chief obstacle now to agriculture in the Crimea and in these regions generally, has been greatly increased by the disappearance of the forests of central and southern Russia, which formerly to some extent protected the coast-provinces from the parching northeast wind.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book IV : The Revolution