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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... French language in the west of Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , 77 CHAPTER III . OVERTHROW OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE BY THE CRUSADERS.- A. D. 1096-1204 . § 1. The Crusades , 2. Quarrels with the Byzantine emperors ...
... French language in the west of Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , 77 CHAPTER III . OVERTHROW OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE BY THE CRUSADERS.- A. D. 1096-1204 . § 1. The Crusades , 2. Quarrels with the Byzantine emperors ...
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... French text , p . 39 , 335 ; Greek text , p . 113 , 170 . 2 Chalcocondylas , p . 16 , 71. Mazaris . Boissonade , Anecdota Græca , tom . iii . 174 , also proves that Sclavonian was spoken in the Peloponnesus during the fourteenth century ...
... French text , p . 39 , 335 ; Greek text , p . 113 , 170 . 2 Chalcocondylas , p . 16 , 71. Mazaris . Boissonade , Anecdota Græca , tom . iii . 174 , also proves that Sclavonian was spoken in the Peloponnesus during the fourteenth century ...
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... French Conquest repeatedly give the name a circum- scribed sense , referring it to the plain of Elis , though at other times applying it to the whole peninsula.1 Originally the word appears to be the same geographical denomination which ...
... French Conquest repeatedly give the name a circum- scribed sense , referring it to the plain of Elis , though at other times applying it to the whole peninsula.1 Originally the word appears to be the same geographical denomination which ...
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... ( French , ) 414 . 2 Pouqueville in his Voyage de la Grèce , ii . 394 , estimates their numbers at 74,470 . He affects exactitude in his exaggerations . 3 Skylitza Hist . ad calcem Cedreni , 865 . ALBANIANS IN GREECE . 37 § 7 . bore that ...
... ( French , ) 414 . 2 Pouqueville in his Voyage de la Grèce , ii . 394 , estimates their numbers at 74,470 . He affects exactitude in his exaggerations . 3 Skylitza Hist . ad calcem Cedreni , 865 . ALBANIANS IN GREECE . 37 § 7 . bore that ...
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... French and English history commence with details of cruelties committed by these pirates , so frightful that the poetry of their sagas cannot efface the conviction that plunder was dearer to them than glory , and that their favourite ...
... French and English history commence with details of cruelties committed by these pirates , so frightful that the poetry of their sagas cannot efface the conviction that plunder was dearer to them than glory , and that their favourite ...
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