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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... Political condition of the Byzantine empire , 2. Social condition of the Greeks in the twelfth century , 45 69 52 3. Stationary condition of the agricultural population throughout Europe during the middle ages , 5. Normans invade the ...
... Political condition of the Byzantine empire , 2. Social condition of the Greeks in the twelfth century , 45 69 52 3. Stationary condition of the agricultural population throughout Europe during the middle ages , 5. Normans invade the ...
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... political experience that are to be found in no other portion of the annals of the human race . The Roman conquest first compressed the Hellenic race into a distinct nation . That union was effected by the destruction of the local ...
... political experience that are to be found in no other portion of the annals of the human race . The Roman conquest first compressed the Hellenic race into a distinct nation . That union was effected by the destruction of the local ...
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... political life was framed , and the consequence was that a new people arose out of the change . Such seems to be the origin of the modern Greeks , a people which displays many appearances of homogeneity in character , though it is ...
... political life was framed , and the consequence was that a new people arose out of the change . Such seems to be the origin of the modern Greeks , a people which displays many appearances of homogeneity in character , though it is ...
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... political importance of these colonies , p . 379. Professor Fallmerayer became the champion of Sclavonianism , in his History of the Morea , in 1830 ; and he has ever since defended the cause with great eloquence , learning , and wit ...
... political importance of these colonies , p . 379. Professor Fallmerayer became the champion of Sclavonianism , in his History of the Morea , in 1830 ; and he has ever since defended the cause with great eloquence , learning , and wit ...
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... political causes , connected with a vicious administration of the government , and on moral ones arising out of a ... politics . CHAP . I. Illyrians and the Thracians . § 3.
... political causes , connected with a vicious administration of the government , and on moral ones arising out of a ... politics . CHAP . I. Illyrians and the Thracians . § 3.
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Page 452 - ... the Ganges to Damascus and the Archipelago, Asia was in the hand of Timour ; his armies were invincible, his ambition was boundless, and his zeal might aspire to conquer and convert the Christian kingdoms of the West, which already trembled at his name. He touched the utmost verge of the land ; but an insuperable though narrow sea rolled between the two continents of Europe and Asia, and the lord of so many tomans, or myriads of horse, was not master of a single galley.
Page 494 - In concluding the history of this Greek state, we inquire in vain for any benefit that it conferred on the human race.