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Detailed explanation-1: -It is not known precisely when Strabo’s Geography was written, though comments within the work itself place the finished version within the reign of Emperor Tiberius. Some place its first drafts around 7 BC, others around AD 17 or AD 18.

Detailed explanation-2: -Strabo is considered as the ‘father of regional geography, ‘ because he substituted divisions bas natural boundaries (such as mountains, rivers etc.) for the less permanent and artificially drawn political units. He was the first to declare geography as a chorological science.