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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... compelled all the independent tribes to acknowledge themselves tributary to the Byzantine empire . In spite of this check , the Sclavonians continued numerous and powerful ; and fifteen years later , one of their princes in northern ...
... compelled all the independent tribes to acknowledge themselves tributary to the Byzantine empire . In spite of this check , the Sclavonians continued numerous and powerful ; and fifteen years later , one of their princes in northern ...
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... compelled to submit to the authority of chiefs selected by the Byzantine government . The Melings in the moun- tain were ordered to pay an annual tribute of sixty gold Byzants , and the Ezerits in the rich plain three hundred . The ...
... compelled to submit to the authority of chiefs selected by the Byzantine government . The Melings in the moun- tain were ordered to pay an annual tribute of sixty gold Byzants , and the Ezerits in the rich plain three hundred . The ...
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... compelled to pay annually the sum of six hundred gold Byzants , and the tribute of the Ezerits was fixed at the same amount . The successor of Krinites embroiled the affairs of his province ; and a Sclavonian tribe , called the ...
... compelled to pay annually the sum of six hundred gold Byzants , and the tribute of the Ezerits was fixed at the same amount . The successor of Krinites embroiled the affairs of his province ; and a Sclavonian tribe , called the ...
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... compelled to pay among themselves , and regulated their local administration by their own national usages . Const . Porphyr . , De Adm . Imp . , c . 1. p . 134. It is difficult to fix the position of the Kastron of Maina mentioned by ...
... compelled to pay among themselves , and regulated their local administration by their own national usages . Const . Porphyr . , De Adm . Imp . , c . 1. p . 134. It is difficult to fix the position of the Kastron of Maina mentioned by ...
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... compelled to subscribe his submis- sion to the decrees of the general councils and the canons of the Orthodox Church.2 Thus the regular administra- tion of justice by fixed tribunals according to immutable rules of law , the order of ...
... compelled to subscribe his submis- sion to the decrees of the general councils and the canons of the Orthodox Church.2 Thus the regular administra- tion of justice by fixed tribunals according to immutable rules of law , the order of ...
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