Geographical and historical characteristics of the Eastern, Greek, or Byzantine peninsula 18-19 Its chief divisions; Thrace and Illyria; their relations to Greece 19-20 Greece Proper and its peninsulas 20-21 Peloponnêsos 21 § 2. _Insular and Asiatic Greece._ Extent of _Continuous Hellas_ 21 The Islands 22 Asiatic Greece 22-23 § 3. _Ethnology of the Eastern Peninsula._ The Greeks and the kindred races 23 Illyrians, Albanians, or Skipetar 24 Inhabitants of Epeiros, Macedonia, Sicily, and Italy 24 Pelasgians 24-25 The Greek Nation 25 § 4. _Earliest Geography of Greece and the Neighbouring Lands._ Homeric Greece: its extent and tribal divisions 25-27 Use of the name _Epeiros_ 26 The cities: their groupings unlike those of later times; supremacy of Mykênê 27 Extent of Greek colonization in Homeric times 28 The Asiatic catalogue 28 Probable kindred of all the neighbouring nations 28 Phœnician and Greek settlements in the islands 28 § 5. _Change from Homeric to Historic Greece._ Changes in Peloponnêsos; Dorian and Aitolian settlements 29 Later divisions of Peloponnêsos 29-30 Change in Northern Greece; Thessaly 30 Akarnania and the Corinthian colonies 31 Foundation and destruction of cities 31 § 6. _The Greek Colonies._ The Ægæan and Asiatic colonies 32-33 Early greatness of the Asiatic cities; Milêtos 32 Their submission to Lydians and Persians 32-33 The Thracian colonies; abiding greatness of Thessalonikê and Byzantion 33 More distant colonies; Sicily, Italy, Dalmatia 33-34 Parts of the Mediterranean not colonized by the Greeks; Phœnician settlements; struggles in Sicily and Cyprus 34-35 Greek colonies in Africa, Gaul, and Spain 35 Colonies on the Euxine; abiding greatness of Cherson and Trebizond 36 Beginning of the artificial Greek nation 36 § 7. _Growth of Macedonia and Epeiros._