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... 38978 ΤΟ GEORGE FINLAY , LL.D. , K.R.G. , THE HISTORIAN OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND MEDIEVAL GREECE , THIS RECORD OF THE RIVAL EMPIRE Is Inscribed WITH FEELINGS OF GRATITUDE AND ADMIRATION . PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . THESE Lectures , first.
... 38978 ΤΟ GEORGE FINLAY , LL.D. , K.R.G. , THE HISTORIAN OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND MEDIEVAL GREECE , THIS RECORD OF THE RIVAL EMPIRE Is Inscribed WITH FEELINGS OF GRATITUDE AND ADMIRATION . PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . THESE Lectures , first.
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... Constantinople . 673 91 Martyrdom of Hossein 680 74 Final Conquest of Africa 709 85 Conquest of Spain 710-13 88 Transoxiana 710 87 Sind . 711 89 End of the Heraclian Dynasty 711 91 Second Siege of Constantinople . Leo the Isaurian 717 ...
... Constantinople . 673 91 Martyrdom of Hossein 680 74 Final Conquest of Africa 709 85 Conquest of Spain 710-13 88 Transoxiana 710 87 Sind . 711 89 End of the Heraclian Dynasty 711 91 Second Siege of Constantinople . Leo the Isaurian 717 ...
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... Constantinople by the Ottomans 1453 131 Conquest of Granada by Ferdinand and Isabella 1492 151 Ishmael first Sophi of Persia 1502 184 Baber King of Cabul 1504 192 Ishmael's war with Sultan Selim 1514 187 Baber Emperor of Hindostan 1526 ...
... Constantinople by the Ottomans 1453 131 Conquest of Granada by Ferdinand and Isabella 1492 151 Ishmael first Sophi of Persia 1502 184 Baber King of Cabul 1504 192 Ishmael's war with Sultan Selim 1514 187 Baber Emperor of Hindostan 1526 ...
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... Constantinople , the New Rome , still extended over nearly all the countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea . The commands of Cæsar Augustus were still obeyed from the Atlantic to the Euphrates . And it is quite erroneous to look ...
... Constantinople , the New Rome , still extended over nearly all the countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea . The commands of Cæsar Augustus were still obeyed from the Atlantic to the Euphrates . And it is quite erroneous to look ...
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... Constantinople , but Constantinople was not yet thoroughly and definitively Greek . He reigned also over the old Rome , and over Carthage , the capital of a province as truly Roman as Italy itself . In the East too the Empire still ...
... Constantinople , but Constantinople was not yet thoroughly and definitively Greek . He reigned also over the old Rome , and over Carthage , the capital of a province as truly Roman as Italy itself . In the East too the Empire still ...
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