| MAGNA | Area of southern Italy populated by Greek settlers from the 8th century BC (5,7) |
| GRAECIA | Area of southern Italy populated by Greek settlers from the 8th century BC (5,7) |
| AMALFI | Scenic area of southern Italy, ... Coast |
| ANGLOSAXON | British settler from the 5th century (5-5) |
| ANCONA | Adriatic port in Marche, Italy, founded by Greek settlers from Syracuse (6) |
| CLASSICAL | Period of cultural European history from the 8th century BC to the 5th century AD, _ antiquity (9) |
| HELLSKITCHEN | Neighbourhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City once populated by poor and working class Irish Americans |
| GOLANHEIGHTS | A heavily fortified disputed hilly area of southern Syria (5,7) |
| MONTPARNASSE | Area of southern Paris (12) |
| TENNO | Formal title of the emperor of Japan ('heavenly emperor'), used from the 8th century in place of mikado (5) |
| PALERMO | Capital of the Italian island of Sicily, founded by Phoenician traders in the 8th century BC (7) |
| READING | Large town in the Thames Valley (pop about 230,000), dating from the 8th century (7) |
| IONIA | Ancient region of western Asia Minor along the coast of the Aegean Sea where Greek settlers establis |
| JONAH | Prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC (5) |
| HOMER | Greek poet of the 8th Century BC who wrote two epic poems that shaped ancient Greek culture (5) |
| VIKINGS | The Danes, Norwegians and Swedes who raided most of North and West Europe by sea from the 8th to the 11th Centuries (7) |
| NUBIA | Ancient region on the River Nile, home to the Kingdom of Kush which conquered Egypt in the 8th Century BC (5) |
| SHINTO | Japanese religion dating from the 8th century (6) |
| HOSEA | In the Old Testament, a Hebrew prophet of the 8th Century BC (5) |
| AMOS | In the Old Testament, a Hebrew prophet of the 8th Century BC (4) |
