(Cyprus), Nicosia is in Europe not Asia.
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Mon Sep 25 04:23:41 UTC 2000
Paul Eggert said:
> Cyprus is
> clearly in Asia, and this has long been recognized. For example,
> please see Herodotus, Histories, I.72.
Hmm, it's less than clear that the "classical" boundary between Europe and
Asia was the same as today's. Wasn't anything east of Greece "Asia" ? And I
know that "Africa" excluded Morocco, for example.
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