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Definition of Pelasgian

Pelasgian
Pelasgian Pe*las"gi*an, Pelasgic Pe*las"gic, a. [L. Pelasgus, Gr. ? a Pelasgian.] 1. Of or pertaining to the Pelasgians, an ancient people of Greece, of roving habits. 2. (Zo["o]l.) Wandering.

Meaning of Pelasgian from wikipedia

- The name Pelasgians (Ancient Gr****: Πελασγοί, romanized: Pelasgoí, singular: Πελασγός Pelasgós) was used by classical Gr**** writers to refer either to...
- interpreted Bronze Age Greece as changing from a matriarchal society under the Pelasgians to a patriarchal one under continual pressure from victorious Gr****-speaking...
- Prehistory (pre-1100 BC) Neolithic Age Bronze Age Pelasgians Cycladic civilization Minoan civilization ****adic period Mycenaean period Bronze Age collapse...
- Jason and the Argonauts, where Pelasgian women killed their men, and that of Herodotus narrative where the Pelasgians killed captive mothers and children...
- the Pelasgians used to speak I am not able with certainty to say. But if one must pronounce judging by those that still remain of the Pelasgians who dwelt...
- Prehistory (pre-1100 BC) Neolithic Age Bronze Age Pelasgians Cycladic civilization Minoan civilization ****adic period Mycenaean period Bronze Age collapse...
- deity of the city. Some scholars suggested that Poseidon was probably a Pelasgian god or a god of the Minyans. However it is possible that Poseidon, like...
- the tribes of Pelasgian spearsmen, who dwelt in fertile Larissa- Hippothous, and Pylaeus of the race of Mars, two sons of the Pelasgian Lethus, son of...
- theories about the origin of the Etruscan people. Some suggested they were Pelasgians who had migrated there from Greece. Others maintained that they were indigenous...
- Part of a series on the History of Greece Neolithic Greece Pelasgians Gr**** Bronze Age ****adic Cycladic Minoan Mycenaean Greece 1750 BC–1050 BC Ancient...