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a lost passage of Pindar quoted by Strabo (3.5.5) was the earliest reference in this context: "the pillars which Pindar calls the "gates of Gades" when he asserts that they are the farthermost limits reached by Heracles"; the passage in Pindar has not been traced. Radar maps show rain and snow detected in real-time. Data is provided by RainViewer. Coverage is limited and may show glitches/anomalies. Atlas was so grateful to Heracles for his kindly deed that he not only gladly gave him such assistance as his Labour called for, but he also instructed him quite freely in the knowledge of astrology. For Atlas had worked out the science of astrology to a degree surpassing others and had ingeniously discovered the spherical nature of the stars, and for that reason was generally believed to be bearing the entire firmament upon his shoulders. Similarly in the case of Heracles, when he had brought to the Greeks the doctrine of the sphere, he gained great fame, as if he had taken over the burden of the firmament which Atlas had borne, since men intimated in this enigmatic way what had actually taken place." Bibliotheca historica, Book IV 27.4-5 Twelve independent countries share the continent of South America, plus one French overseas department, French Guiana, and two dependent territories, the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (both British overseas territories). Although usually the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, as in Hesiod, Theogony 371–374, in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (4), 99–100, Selene is instead made the daughter of Pallas the son of Megamedes.

And there are nations that have their own territory and cultural identity but are part of a parent state entity, such as the American Indian nations of North America or the Uighurs in the autonomous region of Xinjiang, or Tibet; the former Tibetan Empire is now, not entirely voluntarily, an autonomous region of China. Physical and topographical ■ Political ■ Geological ■ People ■ Time and time zones ■ Projections of the globe La Tierra es el tercer planeta del Sistema Solar, considerando su distancia al Sol, y el quinto de ellos según su tamaño. Es el único planeta del universo que se conoce en el que exista y se origine la vida. La Tierra se formó al mismo tiempo que el Sol y el resto del Sistema Solar, hace 4.570 millones de años. Austria-Hungary ■ Byzantine Empire ■ Caliphate ■ Czechoslovakia ■ Frankish Empire ■ Kingdom of Hawaiʻi ■ Inca Empire ■ Iroquois Confederacy ■ Macedonian Empire ■ Ottoman Empire ■ Prussia ■ Roman Empire ■ Soviet Union ■ Republic of Texas ■ Vermont Republic ■ Republic of West Florida ■ Yugoslavia Keuning, J. (1947). "The History of an Atlas: Mercator. Hondius". Imago Mundi. 4 (1): 37–62. doi: 10.1080/03085694708591880. ISSN 0308-5694. JSTOR 1149747.The "testimony of Eusebius" was "drawn from the most ancient historians" according to Mercator. Eusebius' Praeparatio evangelica gives accounts of Atlas that had been translated from the works of ancient Phoenician Sanchuniathon, the original sources for which predate the Trojan War (i.e. 13th century BCE). Aceh ■ Adjara ■ Adygea ■ Altai ■ Andalusia ■ Aosta Valley ■ Aragon ■ Asturias ■ Athos ■ Azores ■ Balearic Islands ■ Bashkortostan ■ Basque Autonomous Community ■ Bonaire ■ Bosnia and Herzegovina (Federation of) ■ Bougainville ■ Brussels ■ Buryatia ■ Canary Islands ■ Catalonia ■ Chechnya ■ Chuvashia ■ Corsica ■ Dagestan ■ Easter Island ■ England ■ Extremadura ■ Flanders ■ Friuli-Venezia Giulia ■ Gagauzia ■ Galicia ■ Galápagos Islands ■ Gilgit–Baltistan ■ Gorno-Badakhshan ■ Guangxi ■ Ingushetia ■ Islamabad Capital Territory ■ Inner Mongolia ■ Kabardino-Balkaria ■ Kalmykia ■ Karachay-Cherkessia ■ Karakalpakstan ■ Karelia ■ Khakassia ■ Komi ■ Kurdistan (Iraqi) ■ Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ■ Madeira ■ Mari El ■ Muslim Mindanao ■ Mordovia ■ Nakhichevan ■ Navarre ■ Nevis ■ Ningxia ■ North Ossetia – Alania ■ Northern Ireland ■ Nunatsiavut ■ Quebec ■ Saba ■ Sakha ■ Sardinia ■ Scotland ■ Sicily ■ Sindh ■ Sint Eustatius ■ Srpska ■ Tibet ■ Tłı̨chǫ ■ Trentino-Alto Adige ■ Tuva ■ Udmurtia ■ Vojvodina ■ Wales ■ Wallonia ■ Xinjiang ■ Zanzibar La tero estas la tria planedo de nia sunsistemo, kaj la sola konata vivoporta planedo. La astronomia simbolo estas ♁ aŭ \oplus.

For further comment on Mercator's chosen Titanic genealogy see Keuning (1947), Akerman (1994) and Ramachandran (2015), p.42 The western portion of the Eurasian continent is known as Europe. There are 44 sovereign countries, not included are countries that only have a small territory in Europe like Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Turkey. 43 European countries are members of the United Nations ( Vatican City is not. The Holy See, which represents the Vatican City State in international relations, has permanent observer status at the UN). 27 countries are members of the European Union. 747 million people live in Europe. Yugoslavia - In 2003, FR Yugoslavia became officially known as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (abbreviated SUSM). In 2006, Montenegro seceded from the union and regained independence on 3 June 2006. What does "Atlantis" mean? And why is the Space Shuttle Atlantis named after something underwater?". 8 July 2011.

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Diodorus Siculus (1933–67). Oldfather, C. H.; Sherman, C. L.; Welles, C. B.; Geer, R. M.; Walton, F. R. (eds.). Diodorus of Sicily: The Library of History. 12 Vols (2004ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

For instance, the Phoenician Hanno the Navigator is said to have sailed as far as Mount Cameroon in the 5th or 6th century BC. See Lemprière (1833), pp.249–250 and Ovid, The Metamorphoses, commented by Henry T. Riley ISBN 978-1-4209-3395-6 Atlas was also a legendary king of Mauretania, the land of the Mauri in antiquity roughly corresponding with modern Morocco and Algeria . In the 16th century, Gerardus Mercator put together the first collection of maps to be called an " Atlas" and devoted his book to the "King of Mauretania". [24] [26] According to Plato, the first king of Atlantis was also named Atlas, but that Atlas was a son of Poseidon and the mortal woman Cleito. [21] The works of Eusebius [22] and Diodorus [3] also give an Atlantean account of Atlas. In these accounts, Atlas' father was Uranus and his mother was Gaia. His grandfather was Elium "King of Phoenicia" who lived in Byblos with his wife Beruth. Atlas was raised by his sister, Basilia. [23] [24] [25] King of Mauretania [ edit ]Aeneid iv.247: " Atlantis duri" and other instances; see Robert W. Cruttwell, "Virgil, Aeneid, iv. 247: 'Atlantis Duri'" The Classical Review 59.1 (May 1945), p. 11. The usage in Virgil's maximum Atlas axem umero torquet stellis ardentibus aptum ( Aeneid, iv.481f, cf vi.796f), combining poetic and parascientific images, is discussed in P. R. Hardie, "Atlas and Axis" The Classical Quarterly N.S. 33.1 (1983:220-228).