
Also known as Geographica, Strabo's Geography
thumb|200px|Title page of the 1620 edition of Isaac Casaubon's Geographica, whose 840 page numbers prefixed by "C" are now used as a standard text reference. The Geographica (, Geōgraphiká; or , "Strabo's 17 Books on Geographical Topics") or Geography, is an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, consisting of 17 'books', written in Greek in the late first century BC, or early first century AD, and attributed to Strabo, an educated citizen of the Roman Empire of Greek descent. There is a fragmentary palimpsest dating to the fifth century. The earliest manuscripts of books 1–9 date to the tent
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- Author
- Tim Marshall
- First published
- 2015
- Editions
- 14
- Subjects
- Geopolitics, World politics, nyt:travel=2015-12-13, New York Times bestseller, Politics and Government, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, Geopolítica
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Wikidata facts
- Author
- Strabo
- Genre
- treatise
- Narrative location
- Ancient Rome
- Image
- Allegorie op geschiedenis en geografie Titelpagina voor Strabo, Rerum geographicarum libri XVII, Amsterdam, 1707 Strabonis geographia cum notis Casauboni (titel op object), RP-P-1964-3404.jpg
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- title
- Γεωγραφικά
- Commons category
- Geographica
- language of work or name
- Ancient Greek
- entry in abbreviations table
- Strab.
- inception
- 0020-00-00
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Article · 日本語
『地理誌』(ちりし、Geographica、古代ギリシア語: Γεωγραφικά)は、ギリシアにルーツを持ち、ローマ帝国で教育を受けたストラボンが、古代ギリシア語で著した17巻に及ぶ地理分野の百科事典。ヨーロッパ、北アフリカ、西アジア、インドの歴史や自然などが記されている。 日本語訳では、『ギリシア・ローマ世界地誌』というタイトルで龍渓書舎から出版されている。
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