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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... tion in the Peloponnesus , 277 3. Division of the Morea among the brothers of the emperor John VI . , viz . , Theodore II . , Constantine , and Thomas . War of Constantine and Thomas with the Othoman Turks in 1446 , 284 4. Disorders in ...
... tion in the Peloponnesus , 277 3. Division of the Morea among the brothers of the emperor John VI . , viz . , Theodore II . , Constantine , and Thomas . War of Constantine and Thomas with the Othoman Turks in 1446 , 284 4. Disorders in ...
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... tion may have been of mixed race during the classic ages CHAP . I. is great . The one relates to the proportion in which the Pelasgi , or original inhabitants , combined with the agri- cultural classes of the Hellenic race ; the other ...
... tion may have been of mixed race during the classic ages CHAP . I. is great . The one relates to the proportion in which the Pelasgi , or original inhabitants , combined with the agri- cultural classes of the Hellenic race ; the other ...
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... tion and religion , and literature and religion have created Arabs and Greeks out of Syrians or Ethiopians , and Sclavonians or Albanians . Christianity opened the way for a great change in the Hellenic people . The principles of the ...
... tion and religion , and literature and religion have created Arabs and Greeks out of Syrians or Ethiopians , and Sclavonians or Albanians . Christianity opened the way for a great change in the Hellenic people . The principles of the ...
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... tion in the rural districts which they still retained ; unless we are to conclude , from the words of Constantine , that after the time of the plague all the Greeks were in the habit of dwelling within the walls of fortified towns , and ...
... tion in the rural districts which they still retained ; unless we are to conclude , from the words of Constantine , that after the time of the plague all the Greeks were in the habit of dwelling within the walls of fortified towns , and ...
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... tion of the country into one people . That they grew out of the Roman colonies , which spread the language and civilisation of Italy in these regions , is generally admitted . They make their appearance in Byzantine history as ...
... tion of the country into one people . That they grew out of the Roman colonies , which spread the language and civilisation of Italy in these regions , is generally admitted . They make their appearance in Byzantine history as ...
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