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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... Peloponnesus , 4. Sclavonian names in the geographical nomenclature of Greece , 5. Colonies of Asiatic race settled by the Byzantine emperors in Thrace and Macedonia , 6. Bulgarians and Vallachians in Greece , 7. Albanians , 8. Tzacones ...
... Peloponnesus , 4. Sclavonian names in the geographical nomenclature of Greece , 5. Colonies of Asiatic race settled by the Byzantine emperors in Thrace and Macedonia , 6. Bulgarians and Vallachians in Greece , 7. Albanians , 8. Tzacones ...
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... PELOPONNESUS . - A.D . 1262-1460 . § 1. Early state of the Byzantine province . Government of the despot Theo- dore I. , 268 2. The emperor Manuel II . attempts to ameliorate the Byzantine administra- tion in the Peloponnesus , 277 3 ...
... PELOPONNESUS . - A.D . 1262-1460 . § 1. Early state of the Byzantine province . Government of the despot Theo- dore I. , 268 2. The emperor Manuel II . attempts to ameliorate the Byzantine administra- tion in the Peloponnesus , 277 3 ...
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... Peloponnesus were made under the shelter of the Avar power , towards the end of the sixth century . Whether any colonies had previously settled in the peninsula as agriculturists , or whether they at that time formed populous ...
... Peloponnesus were made under the shelter of the Avar power , towards the end of the sixth century . Whether any colonies had previously settled in the peninsula as agriculturists , or whether they at that time formed populous ...
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... PELOPONNESUS . 15 A. D. The ravages by which the barbarians prepared the way for the Sclavonians to colonise Greece as early as the 589-746 . reign of Justinian have been noticed . The cotemporary Byzantine historian , Menander ...
... PELOPONNESUS . 15 A. D. The ravages by which the barbarians prepared the way for the Sclavonians to colonise Greece as early as the 589-746 . reign of Justinian have been noticed . The cotemporary Byzantine historian , Menander ...
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... Peloponnesus , by a passage in a synodal letter of the Patriarch Nikolaos to the Emperor Alexius I. The Patriarch mentions that the Emperor Nicephorus I. , about the year 807 , raised Patras to the rank of a Metropolitan see , on ...
... Peloponnesus , by a passage in a synodal letter of the Patriarch Nikolaos to the Emperor Alexius I. The Patriarch mentions that the Emperor Nicephorus I. , about the year 807 , raised Patras to the rank of a Metropolitan see , on ...
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