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In ancient Greece, the term ecumene (U.S.) or oecumene (UK; from Ancient Greek οἰκουμένη (oikouménē) 'the inhabited world') denoted the known, inhabited...

those parts of Africa south of the Sahara that were then known within the Ecumene (habitable world). The earliest mention of the term is found in the works...

writers, this was most of the world then known to the ancient Greeks (the 'Ecumene'). An approximate view of the world known to Alexander can be seen in Hecataeus...

and Indus-related artifacts were found over a large and differentiated ecumene, encompassing Central Asia, the Iranian Plateau, Mesopotamia and the northern...

A printed map from the 15th century depicting Ptolemy's description of the Ecumene by Johannes Schnitzer (1482)....

metropolis: Changes in the cultural geography of Berlin since reunification". Ecumene. 6 (3): 284–294. doi:10.1191/096746099701556286. Grésillon, B (April 1999)...

differ from one world historian to another and include world-system and ecumene. His emphasis on cultural fusions influenced historical theory significantly...

grammarians and also affirmed the linguistic unity of the north Indian ecumene. What emerged was a kind of register of language types that were appropriate...

to be linked to the control of reproduction. In the present scholarly ecumene, this aligns them in some respects with scholars who are traditional and...

history on universal kingship and cosmopolitan culture in the Hellenistic ecumene," Universal Empire: A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation...

in Italy and South America. That includes as well a close watch on the ecumene, with the Waldensian-influenced theologians being more doubtful about a...

conception of an "inhabited quarter" of the world comparable to the Greek ecumene. The attitudes towards the Age of Discovery within the Ottoman Empire ranged...

AD, including the expansion of Hellenism, the closure of the Eurasian ecumene, the development of major religions, the barbarian onslaught, resurgence...

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contained Ptolemy's world map – the world then known to Western society (Ecumene). As early as the 8th century, Arab scholars were translating the works...

[Collected Works in Six Volumes: Road of the Winds; On the edge of the ecumene.] (in Russian). p. 751. Davis, Lauren (2009-07-28). "The Hunt for the Mongolian...

A medieval depiction of the Ecumene (1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver), constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy's Geography and using his second...

Retrieved 14 April 2023. Yildirim, Riza (2019). "The Safavid-Qizilbash Ecumene and the Formation of the Qizilbash-Alevi Community in the Ottoman Empire...

Conjunction: The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires and the Islamic Ecumene". Shah Jahan. LSE International Studies. Cambridge University Press. 18...

No 25, Theme Burmese Heritage Frasch, Tilman. "The Theravaada Buddhist Ecumene in the Fifteenth Century: Intellectual Foundations and Material Representations"...