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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... army , was ordered to be brought back to his estate , ( law xvii . ) - " Qui derelicta curia militaverit , revocetur ad curiam . " No words could declare more strongly the decrease in the numbers of the tax - payers , nor mark more ...
... army , was ordered to be brought back to his estate , ( law xvii . ) - " Qui derelicta curia militaverit , revocetur ad curiam . " No words could declare more strongly the decrease in the numbers of the tax - payers , nor mark more ...
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... army of their own amounting to a hundred thousand men , and extended their devastations into Greece.1 About this time they were in hostile collision with the Chagan of the Avars , to whom they had formerly paid tribute . Many Sclavonian ...
... army of their own amounting to a hundred thousand men , and extended their devastations into Greece.1 About this time they were in hostile collision with the Chagan of the Avars , to whom they had formerly paid tribute . Many Sclavonian ...
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... army into Greece , to reduce all the Sclavonians who had assumed independence to immediate dependence on the imperial administration . This force marched into the Peloponnesus , ravaged the lands of the Sclavonians , carried off an ...
... army into Greece , to reduce all the Sclavonians who had assumed independence to immediate dependence on the imperial administration . This force marched into the Peloponnesus , ravaged the lands of the Sclavonians , carried off an ...
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... army of the rebel Nicephorus Vasi- lakes , when he assumed the imperial title . The Alba- nians were then , as now , the inhabitants of the mountains near Dyrrachium . The existence of the Albanian name in these regions dates from a far ...
... army of the rebel Nicephorus Vasi- lakes , when he assumed the imperial title . The Alba- nians were then , as now , the inhabitants of the mountains near Dyrrachium . The existence of the Albanian name in these regions dates from a far ...
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... while , after the death of Manuel I. , the resources of the Byzan- tine empire were allowed to fall to decay , or were wasted BYZANTINE ARMY . 51 by the incapacity and infatuation of 50 HOSTILITY OF GREEKS AND LATINS .
... while , after the death of Manuel I. , the resources of the Byzan- tine empire were allowed to fall to decay , or were wasted BYZANTINE ARMY . 51 by the incapacity and infatuation of 50 HOSTILITY OF GREEKS AND LATINS .
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