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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... empire . Their ravages in Greece , 6. Separation of the Greek and Latin churches , 4. Condition of the Normans when they conquered the Byzantine possessions in Italy , 89 58 60 64 · 72 Page §7 . Great increase of the papal power during.
... empire . Their ravages in Greece , 6. Separation of the Greek and Latin churches , 4. Condition of the Normans when they conquered the Byzantine possessions in Italy , 89 58 60 64 · 72 Page §7 . Great increase of the papal power during.
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... conquered by the Romans . This latter party generally selects an earlier genealogical era , and talks only of a descent from the subjects of Leonidas and the fellow - citizens of Pericles . Both seem equally far from the truth . But ...
... conquered by the Romans . This latter party generally selects an earlier genealogical era , and talks only of a descent from the subjects of Leonidas and the fellow - citizens of Pericles . Both seem equally far from the truth . But ...
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... conquering race . The earliest steps by which the Sclavonians colonised the Hellenic soil are unnoticed in history . Like the subsequent increase in the number of the Greeks which expelled or absorbed them , its very causes pass unre ...
... conquering race . The earliest steps by which the Sclavonians colonised the Hellenic soil are unnoticed in history . Like the subsequent increase in the number of the Greeks which expelled or absorbed them , its very causes pass unre ...
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... conquering armies into the Eastern Empire , is described in Menander , Corpus Hist . Byzantinæ , p . 406 , edit . Bonn ; p . 165 , edit . Paris . 2 Theophanes , p . 304 , 305 , 364. Thirty thousand troops were raised in this colony ...
... conquering armies into the Eastern Empire , is described in Menander , Corpus Hist . Byzantinæ , p . 406 , edit . Bonn ; p . 165 , edit . Paris . 2 Theophanes , p . 304 , 305 , 364. Thirty thousand troops were raised in this colony ...
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... conquered by the Bulgarians , under their chief Asparuch , about the year 678. The greater part of the territory subdued by the Bulgarians had already been 1 Compare Phrantzes , p . 398 , edit . Bonn , and Le Quien , Oriens Christianus ...
... conquered by the Bulgarians , under their chief Asparuch , about the year 678. The greater part of the territory subdued by the Bulgarians had already been 1 Compare Phrantzes , p . 398 , edit . Bonn , and Le Quien , Oriens Christianus ...
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