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planned one are the Latin "Cosmography" of Ethicus and a few 

 (books of circumnavigation) written in Greek. 



As soon as the invading nations had formed themselves into kingdoms 



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 of the Thirteenth Century. In the Imperial Library, Vienna. 



upon the Roman soil, and their chiefs had become kings rivalling the Caesars 

 in power, geography resumed its position and reasserted its usefulness. 

 Thus at the court of Theodore the Great, Boethius and Cassiodorus, one 



