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Ecumene
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Ecumene 

(Greek oikumene), a term that was used to designate the part of the earth inhabited by man. The ecumene was first described by Hecataeus of Miletus, who included Europe (except northern Europe), Asia Minor, Southwest Asia, India, and North Africa in the concept of ecumene.
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The Greek oikumene was inherited by the Romans and became the basis of their enormous Empire, though the Romans, with their passion for uniform law, insisted on transforming the colonia into provinces and thus put together an old-style territorial empire, with all its strengths and weaknesses.
From "the Evil Empire" to "the Empire for Liberty". (Notes & ... by Johnson, Paul / New Criterion
Church and State were conceived as one perfect harmony, or symphonia, and the emperor ordered the Oikumene, the inhabited earth.
THE MYTH OF AN ORTHODOX BLOCK by Kotzias, Konstantinos / Contemporary Review
Beyond the limits of the Greek oikumene (or "house-world") are wild beasts, monstrous bodies, impassible deserts, mountains, ocean, insufferable heat or cold.
The body and geography by Gillies, John / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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