• In ancient Greece, the term ecumene (U.S.) or oecumene (UK; from Ancient Greek οἰκουμένη (oikouménē) 'the inhabited world') denoted the known, inhabited...
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    A printed map from the 15th century depicting Ptolemy's description of the Ecumene by Johannes Schnitzer (1482)....
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    those parts of Africa south of the Sahara that were then known within the Ecumene (habitable world). The earliest mention of the term is found in the works...
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    writers, this was most of the world then known to the ancient Greeks (the 'Ecumene'). An approximate view of the world known to Alexander can be seen in Hecataeus...
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    [Collected Works in Six Volumes: Road of the Winds; On the edge of the ecumene.] (in Russian). p. 751. Davis, Lauren (2009-07-28). "The Hunt for the Mongolian...
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    and Indus-related artifacts were found over a large and differentiated ecumene, encompassing Central Asia, the Iranian Plateau, Mesopotamia and the northern...
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  • AD, including the expansion of Hellenism, the closure of the Eurasian ecumene, the development of major religions, the barbarian onslaught, resurgence...
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    in Italy and South America. That includes as well a close watch on the ecumene, with the Waldensian-influenced theologians being more doubtful about a...
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    contained Ptolemy's world map – the world then known to Western society (Ecumene). As early as the 8th century, Arab scholars were translating the works...
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  • can afford to acquire status symbols within the world of the colonial ecumene, such as an education abroad and mastery of the language of the colonizer...
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    A medieval depiction of the Ecumene (1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver), constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy's Geography and using his second...
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    Ancient Rome portal Ancient geography Classical antiquity Early world maps Ecumene Geography History of cartography History of the Mediterranean region Latin...
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    landmass on Earth. The following terms are used for similar concepts: Ecumene: a term from classical antiquity for the world as was known to ancient...
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    other works also take place in this same setting. Arcology Conurbation Ecumene Ekistics Megacity Megalopolis Megastructure Merger (politics) Metropolis...
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  • differ from one world historian to another and include world-system and ecumene. His emphasis on cultural fusions influenced historical theory significantly...
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    history on universal kingship and cosmopolitan culture in the Hellenistic ecumene," Universal Empire: A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation...
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    worldwide. The term ecumenical in the title is a historical reference to the Ecumene, a Greek designation for the civilised world, i.e. the Roman Empire, and...
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    conception of an "inhabited quarter" of the world comparable to the Greek ecumene. The attitudes towards the Age of Discovery within the Ottoman Empire ranged...
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    metropolis: Changes in the cultural geography of Berlin since reunification". Ecumene. 6 (3): 284–294. doi:10.1191/096746099701556286. Grésillon, B (April 1999)...
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    shape of the Earth and the fifteenth-century transformation of the world". Ecumene. 1 (4): 365. doi:10.1177/147447409400100404. JSTOR 44251730 – via JSTOR...
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  • to be linked to the control of reproduction. In the present scholarly ecumene, this aligns them in some respects with scholars who are traditional and...
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    grammarians and also affirmed the linguistic unity of the north Indian ecumene. What emerged was a kind of register of language types that were appropriate...
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    soil: landscape and conflicting ideas of nationality in Imperial Russia". Ecumene. 7 (3): 253–270. doi:10.1177/096746080000700302. S2CID 143347828. Sartorti...
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    recasting of African society and landscape in Serengeti National Park". Ecumene. 2 (2): 149–169. doi:10.1177/147447409500200203. S2CID 145421779. Wanitzek...
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  • held by Byzantine Emperors on the one hand to represent the Christian ecumene, on the other hand the akakia represented the mortal nature of all men...
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    ISBN 9780810873803. Buchanan, Donna (2007). Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene: Music, Image, and Regional Political Discourse. London: Scarecrow Press...
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    longitude and latitude values for the world known to the ancient Romans (the "ecumene"). The rest of Book VII provides details on three projections to be used...
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    George (1995). "A Solo Ecology: The Erratic Art of Andy Goldsworthy". Ecumene. 2 (4): 423–448. doi:10.1177/147447409500200404. JSTOR 44251789. S2CID 192196583...
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  • 175–192. Buchanan, Donna A., ed. Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene: Music, Image, and Regional Political Discourse. Scarecrow Press, 2007...
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    and Kultur: keywords in the history of French and German citizenship". Ecumene. 3 (2). SAGE Publishing: 125–145. doi:10.1177/147447409600300201. JSTOR 44252289...
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