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Example sentences for: magnesia
How can you use “magnesia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
There were two cities in Asia Minor called Magnesia : one was in the Kingdom of Lydia on the river Hermos below Mt. Sipylon; the other, usually called Magnesia on the Maiander [Meander river], was in the region called Ionia.
Lydian Magnesia survives as the city of Manisa, in what is now Turkey.
In A Billingsgate in Kerala, by O. Abooty [XXII, 4], we read, ...Magnesia (a metal-bearing region in Greece)...
When you use calico, magnesium or hamburger , you must remember that these words owe their origins to the places under the names Calicut (a district and famous city in Kerala State, India), Magnesia (a metal-bearing region in Greece), and Hamburg (a city in Germany), respectively.