It enjoys, indeed, a warmer and more equable climate than any part of Syria, except the coastal belt, and socially it has always been related more nearly to the south lands than to its own geographical whole, Asia Minor.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
About much of this area we have far more trustworthy information now than when we looked at it last, because it had happened to fall under the eyes of the Greeks of the western coastal cities, and to form relations with them of trade and war.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
His goal was far inland, his danger he well knew, on the sea-danger of possible co-operation between Greek fleets and the greater coastal cities of the Aegean and the Levant.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth