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Excerpt from High School History of Greece and Rome If you turn to a map of Europe, you will find on the south three important peninsulas. On the west, you will notice the Iberian peninsula, consisting of Spain and Portugal, in the form of an irregular square united to France by the Pyrenees mountains; next, Italy, a long tongue of land, with the Apennines running down the centre, while, at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, you will observe Greece washed on three sides by the sea and connected with the rest of the continent at its northern extremity. The country called by us Greece, and by the Romans Graecia, and never had this name given to it by the inhabitants. They called their land Hellas, and themselves Hellenes. The name Hellas, which in Homers day was applied to a small part of Thessaly, in historical times was given to a much wider area. In a restricted sense, it was applied to the country south of the Cambunian mountains, or rather to that part of the country between the isthmus of Corinth and the Ambracian and Maliac gulfs. In a wider sense, however, Hellas meant any district occupied by the Hellenes, wherever they were settled: so that the name was applicable equally to Massalia in Southern Gaul, to Sinope on the Euxine, and to Athens in Attica. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.