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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... territories that spread from the shores of the Adriatic to the sources of the Dnieper and the Volga . In a considerable portion of the countries in which they subsequently appear as 1 Procopius , De Edificiis , lib . iv . c . 2 , p . 71 ...
... territories that spread from the shores of the Adriatic to the sources of the Dnieper and the Volga . In a considerable portion of the countries in which they subsequently appear as 1 Procopius , De Edificiis , lib . iv . c . 2 , p . 71 ...
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... territories once occupied by the Illyrians and the Thracians , is a question of too much obscurity to be examined in ... territory over which the Sclavonian race was scattered , prevented it from ever uniting , so as to form one empire ...
... territories once occupied by the Illyrians and the Thracians , is a question of too much obscurity to be examined in ... territory over which the Sclavonian race was scattered , prevented it from ever uniting , so as to form one empire ...
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... territories once inhabited by the civil position as tax - payer to the fisc , to serve in the army , was ordered to be brought back to his estate , ( law xvii . ) - " Qui derelicta curia militaverit , revocetur ad curiam . " No words ...
... territories once inhabited by the civil position as tax - payer to the fisc , to serve in the army , was ordered to be brought back to his estate , ( law xvii . ) - " Qui derelicta curia militaverit , revocetur ad curiam . " No words ...
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... territory in the same manner in which they had possessed themselves of the country to the north ; but the circum ... territories in Greece without apparently encountering much serious opposition , still their progress was arrested at ...
... territory in the same manner in which they had possessed themselves of the country to the north ; but the circum ... territories in Greece without apparently encountering much serious opposition , still their progress was arrested at ...
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... territory subdued by the Bulgarians had already been 1 Compare Phrantzes , p . 398 , edit . Bonn , and Le Quien , Oriens Christianus , ii . 216. The MS . chronicle of Monemvasia , in the library of Turin , mentioned by Fallmerayer ...
... territory subdued by the Bulgarians had already been 1 Compare Phrantzes , p . 398 , edit . Bonn , and Le Quien , Oriens Christianus , ii . 216. The MS . chronicle of Monemvasia , in the library of Turin , mentioned by Fallmerayer ...
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