 | John Yonge Akerman, Sir John Evans, William Sandys Wright Vaux, Frederic William Madden, Barclay Vincent Head, Herbert Appold Grueber, Edward James Rapson, Oliver Codrington, Sir George Francis Hill, George Cyril Brooke - Numismatics - 1875 - 432 pages
...the shores of Italy and Sicily and the northern coasts of the .ZEgean. The peninsula of Chaleidice, from the number of Chalcidian colonies which it had...in particular flowed plentifully into the island of Eubcea — the gold of the East, the electrum of Sardes, and especially silver from the highlands of... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1880 - 908 pages
...cities in European Greece, at this time surpassing Athens and not inferior to Samos and Miletus in Asia. Their ships covered the seas and carried the native copper ore of Eubcea, for which Chalcis was so famous and from which its name was derived, to the coasts of Asia,... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1880 - 990 pages
...cities in European Greece, at this time surpassing Athens and not inferior to Samos and Miletus in Asia. Their ships covered the seas and carried the native...of Euboea, for which Chalcis was so famous and from wliich its name was derived, to the coaste of Asia, of Thrace, of Italy, and of Sicily, bringing back... | |
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Their ships covered the seas and carried the native copper ore of Euboea, for which Chalcis was so famous and from which its name was derived, to the coasts of Asia, of Thrace, of Italy, and of Sicily, bringing back in exchange the products of every land.... 