Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Asia” in book 1, chapter 130, section 1 of Herodotus, The Histories:
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Thus Astyages was deposed from his sovereignty after a reign of thirty-five years: and the Medes had to bow down before the Persians because of Astyages' cruelty. They had ruled all Asia beyond the Halys for one hundred and twenty-eight years, from which must be subtracted the time when the Scythians held sway.
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