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MOESIA

Volume 14 · 70 words · 1815 Edition

or MYSIA, in Ancient Geography, a country of Europe, extending from the confluence of the Sava and the Danube to the shores of the Euxine. It was divided into Upper and Lower Moesia. Lower Moesia was on the borders of the Euxine, and comprehended that tract of country which received the name of Pontus from its vicinity to the sea. Upper Moesia lay beyond the other in the inland country.