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MEGARIS

Volume 14 · 83 words · 1842 Edition

in Ancient Geography, the country of the Megarians, is described as a rugged region, like Attica; the mountain called Oinean or Asinine, now Maeriplagi or the long mountain, extending through it towards Bocotia and Mount Citheron. It belonged to Ionia or Attica, until it was taken by the Peloponnesians in the reign of Codrus, when a colony of Dorians settled in it. This territory had Attica to the east, Bocotia to the north and west, and the isthmus of Corinth to the south.