Moesia

American  

[mee-shee-uh] / ˈmi ʃi ə /

noun

1. an ancient country in S Europe, S of the Danube and N of ancient Thrace and Macedonia: later a Roman province.

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Example Sentences

The Roman conquest of the Balkan country was slow, but shortly before the Christian era the Roman provinces of Moesia and Thracia comprised most of what is now Bulgaria.

From Bulgaria by Fox, Frank, Sir

In the course of the Dacian war Moesia was divided into two provinces.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

From their first reception into Lower Moesia the Visigoths were subjected to the most contemptuous and oppressive treatment by the Romans who had admitted them into their domains.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Slavonic tribes, their settlement in Moesia, 196 note. languages, properly so called, 200.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

While the bulk of their tribesmen settled down on the banks of the Save and Mid-Danube, the two Theodorics harried the whole of Macedonia and Moesia by never-ending raids.

From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick