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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... understood the art as well as the Turks and Greek Palikari . I have myself ridden through the streets of Tri- politza , Corinth , Megara , Athens , Thebes , and Livadea , when hardly a single § 3 . CHAP . I. plundering incursions of the.
... understood the art as well as the Turks and Greek Palikari . I have myself ridden through the streets of Tri- politza , Corinth , Megara , Athens , Thebes , and Livadea , when hardly a single § 3 . CHAP . I. plundering incursions of the.
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... Thebes . Thebes was taken and plundered in the most barbarous The inhabitants carried on an immense trade manner . 1 On this occasion Hastings blew up a brig of war , and set fire to a large schooner of war and an armed transport , with ...
... Thebes . Thebes was taken and plundered in the most barbarous The inhabitants carried on an immense trade manner . 1 On this occasion Hastings blew up a brig of war , and set fire to a large schooner of war and an armed transport , with ...
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... Thebes all the men of 1 George Antiochenus was high - admiral , and one of the premier nobles of Sicily . The Greek deed by which Roger , King of Sicily , confers the title of protonobilissimus on Christodoulos the father of George , is ...
... Thebes all the men of 1 George Antiochenus was high - admiral , and one of the premier nobles of Sicily . The Greek deed by which Roger , King of Sicily , confers the title of protonobilissimus on Christodoulos the father of George , is ...
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... THEBES . 69 A. D. rank , the most beautiful women , and the most skilful arti- sans , with their wives and families , were carried away , 1161-1195 . either to obtain a ransom or to keep them as slaves . Even the shrines of the saints ...
... THEBES . 69 A. D. rank , the most beautiful women , and the most skilful arti- sans , with their wives and families , were carried away , 1161-1195 . either to obtain a ransom or to keep them as slaves . Even the shrines of the saints ...
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... Thebes continued to be cele- brated throughout the East even at a later period . In 1195 , Moieddin , Sultan of Iconium , required from the Emperor Alexius III . forty pieces of the Theban silk that was woven expressly for the imperial ...
... Thebes continued to be cele- brated throughout the East even at a later period . In 1195 , Moieddin , Sultan of Iconium , required from the Emperor Alexius III . forty pieces of the Theban silk that was woven expressly for the imperial ...
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