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Modon) ; 7, Laconia (towns Sparta or Lacedaemon, near the present Mistra) ; 

 8, Cynuria (Thyrea) : 9, Argolis (Argos, still extant ; Nauplia, now Napoli 

 di Romania) ; 10, Arcadia (Megalopolis ; Mantinea ; Orcliomenos). III. The 

 Grecian Islands. In the Ionian Sea may be noticed, Corcyra, now Corfu ; 

 Paxi, now Paxos and Antipaxos ; Leiicas or Leucadia, now Santa Maura; 

 Ithaca, now Thiaki ; Cephallenia, now Cephalonia ; Zacynthus, now Zante ; 

 Cythera^ now Cerigo ; Aegina, now Eghina. Enb'xa, still of the same name, 

 but formerly called Negroponte (toy>-ns, Chalcis ; Eretria : Carystus : His- 

 tisea). Crete was the largest of the islands of Greece ; it was called 

 Candia by the Turks (the Isle of Cyprus belonged to the Prefecture and 

 Diocese of the East). Among the Cyclades, so called from their lying in a 

 circle about Delos, may be mentioned Delos, Pares, Melos, Andros, Tenos, 

 Syros, Myconos, Ceos, Naxos, Gyaros, Cythnos, Siphnos, and Seriphos. 

 Among the Sporadian Islands were included : Thasos, Samothrace, Imbros, 

 Lemnos, now Stalimene, los, Thera, Astypalgea, Amorgos, &c. The other 

 Sporadian Islands, as Rhodes, belonged to Asia. To the Diocese of Macedo- 

 nia also belonged the so-called Grecian Illyria, Illyria in its most restricted 

 sense, likewise Epirus Nova, which embraced a large portion of Modern Al- 

 bania. The capital was Epidamnus, subsequently called Dyrrhachium and 

 now Durazzo. 



The Diocese of Dacia included the central part of Moesia, south of the 

 Danube, and by Aurelian called Dacia Aureliani. In it was not included 

 the true Dacia to the north of the Danube, embracing Hungary beyond the 

 Theiss, Siebenblirgen, Bukowina, Moldavia, and Wallachia. Subsequently 

 there was distinguished a Dacia iSecunda, or Ripensis^ the region along the 

 Danube, from the Dacia Interior or Prima, the southern strip in the interior 

 to the borders of Macedonia ; also Dardania Prmvalitana and Moesia 

 Prima. 



The Fourth Prefecture of the East was divided into five dioceses : 

 Thracia, Pontus, Asia, Egypt, and the Orient or East in its more restricted 

 sense. The Diocese of Thracia. with Constantinople (previously called 

 Byzantium) for its capital, embraced a large part of the present Turkey in 

 Europe, and was subdivided into the provinces, Moesia Secunda, Scythia, 

 H{?emimontus, Thracia, Rhodope, and Europa. In addition to the capital it 

 contained the following towns : a, In Moesia Secunda ; Nicopolis on the 

 Hsemus, now Nikopoli ; Durostorum, now Siiistria ; Odessus, now Varna ; 

 b, in Scythia ; Tomi, or Tomis, now Temeswar ; Constantiana, now Cos- 

 tendsche ; c, in the Hcemimontus : Adrianopolis, or Orestias, now Adrian- 

 ople, or Edrene ; d, in Thracia ; Philippopolis, now Philippopoli ; e, in 

 Rhodope ; Abdera, now Polystilo, or Asperosa ; ^nus, now Enos ; /, in 

 Europa^ besides Constantinople ; Selymbria, now Selivria ; Bisanthe, Rodos- 

 to, Perinthus. 



The Diocese Pontus embraced eleven provinces ; Bithynia, Galatia, 

 Cappadocia Prima and Secunda, Paphlagonia, Honorias, Galatia Secunda, 

 or Salutaris. Pontus Polemoniacus and Helenopontus, Armenia Prima and 

 Secunda. Bithynia. the eastern part of which was named Honorias, had 

 for its capital Chalcedon ; Bithynium, subsequently Claudiopolis, was the 



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