The History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Crusaders to Its Conquest by the Turks, and of the Empire of Trebizond: 1204-1461 |
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... Messenia , and Elis . In all this great 1 Pachymeres , i . 243 , 347 , edit . Rom . Niceph . Greg . , 69 , 334. Chalcocondy- las , 283. There seems to be a question whether Cantacuzenos , 289 , in men- tioning the Malakassians , Bouians ...
... Messenia , and Elis . In all this great 1 Pachymeres , i . 243 , 347 , edit . Rom . Niceph . Greg . , 69 , 334. Chalcocondy- las , 283. There seems to be a question whether Cantacuzenos , 289 , in men- tioning the Malakassians , Bouians ...
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... Messenia seem not to have degraded the subject race so completely as the Spartans . De Cerem . Aul . Byz . , tom . i . p . 402 , edit . Lips .; p . 696 , edit . Bonn . 3 Nicephorus Gregoras , 58. Pachymeres , i . 209 , edit . Rom . § 8 ...
... Messenia seem not to have degraded the subject race so completely as the Spartans . De Cerem . Aul . Byz . , tom . i . p . 402 , edit . Lips .; p . 696 , edit . Bonn . 3 Nicephorus Gregoras , 58. Pachymeres , i . 209 , edit . Rom . § 8 ...
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... Messenia , deemed the moment favourable for increasing his power . For this purpose he hired the military services of Villehardoin and his followers , who were passing the winter at Modon in idleness , and by their assistance subdued ...
... Messenia , deemed the moment favourable for increasing his power . For this purpose he hired the military services of Villehardoin and his followers , who were passing the winter at Modon in idleness , and by their assistance subdued ...
Page 206
... the whole amounting to about four thousand men , under the command of a Greek named Michael . The French had not more than seven hundred GREEKS DEFEATED IN MESSENIA 207 cavalry to oppose to this 206 PRINCIPALITY OF ACHAIA .
... the whole amounting to about four thousand men , under the command of a Greek named Michael . The French had not more than seven hundred GREEKS DEFEATED IN MESSENIA 207 cavalry to oppose to this 206 PRINCIPALITY OF ACHAIA .
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... MESSENIA 207 cavalry to oppose to this force ; but the battle was fought in the Lakkos , or north - eastern portion of the Messenian plain , where the Franks could turn their superior discipline and heavy armour to the greatest ...
... MESSENIA 207 cavalry to oppose to this force ; but the battle was fought in the Lakkos , or north - eastern portion of the Messenian plain , where the Franks could turn their superior discipline and heavy armour to the greatest ...
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