coast-districts

Updated: August 1, 2024

The turn of the Aremorican cantons came. In the autumn of 697 Publius Crassus was sent thither with a Roman corps; he induced the Veneti who as masters of the ports of the modern Morbihan and of a respectable fleet occupied the first place among all the Celtic cantons in navigation and commerce and generally the coast-districts between the Loire and Seine, to submit to the Romans and give them hostages.

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

The western section, consisting of the lower basins of the Vardar and Struma, lay in the immediate neighbourhood of the former frontier of Greece; but the Greek population of Salonika, and the coast-districts east of it, could not be brought within the Greek frontier without including as well a certain hinterland inhabited mainly by Bulgarians.

Nevill Forbes - The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey

This mountain-system nowhere rises abruptly into a precipitous chain, but, spreading broadly over the land and enclosing many valleys and table-lands connected by easy passes, presents conditions which well adapt it to become the settlement of man. Still more suitable in this respect are the adjacent slopes and the coast-districts on the east, south, and west.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book I : The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy

The turn of the Aremorican cantons came. In the autumn of 697 Publius Crassus was sent thither with a Roman corps; he induced the Veneti who as masters of the ports of the modern Morbihan and of a respectable fleet occupied the first place among all the Celtic cantons in navigation and commerce and generally the coast-districts between the Loire and Seine, to submit to the Romans and give them hostages.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy

The imperial city had now risen to her full stature, and stood forth, supreme in intellect and in action, the wonder and envy of mankind. Her mighty walls bade defiance to her enemies at home, and she held in her hand the islands and coast-districts of the Aegaean, where the last murmur of resistance had been quelled.

H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell - Stories from Thucydides

This mountain-system nowhere rises abruptly into a precipitous chain, but, spreading broadly over the land and enclosing many valleys and table-lands connected by easy passes, presents conditions which well adapt it to become the settlement of man. Still more suitable in this respect are the adjacent slopes and the coast-districts on the east, south, and west.

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