Abdera may refer to: Abdera, Thrace, a city and municipality in Greece Abdera, Spain, an ancient city Apache Abdera, an implementation of the Atom Syndication...
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Abdera (Greek: Άβδηρα) is a municipality in the Xanthi regional unit of Thrace, Greece. In classical antiquity, it was a major Greek polis on the Thracian...
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Democritus (redirect from Democritus of Abdera)
c. 460 – c. 370 BC) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Abdera, primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the...
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Abdera hoffeinsorum is an extinct species of false darkling beetle in the genus Abdera. It was discovered in Baltic amber in 2014. Vitalii I. Alekseev...
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Hecataeus of Abdera or of Teos (Greek: Ἑκαταῖος ὁ Ἀβδηρίτης; c. 360 BC – c. 290 BC), was a Greek historian who flourished in the 4th century BC. Though...
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Abdera was an ancient Carthaginian and Roman port on a hill above the modern Adra on the southeastern Mediterranean coast of Spain. It was located between...
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Protagoras (redirect from Protagoras of Abdera)
itself and its decisions on open, democratic debate. Protagoras was born in Abdera, Thrace, opposite the island of Thasos, around 490 BC. According to Aulus...
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Atomism (redirect from School of Abdera)
Atomism (from Greek ἄτομον, atomon, i.e. "uncuttable, indivisible") is a natural philosophy proposing that the physical universe is composed of fundamental...
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Bion of Abdera (Greek: Βίων ὁ Ἀβδηρίτης, gen. Βίωνος) was a Greek mathematician and astronomer of Abdera, Thrace, and a pupil of Democritus. Strabo refers...
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Acraea abdera, the Abdera acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon...
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