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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... allowed to retain their establishments as subjects and tributaries . It is certain that the Goths , and other Teutonic people who invaded the Eastern Empire , were nothing more than tribes of warriors , who , like the Dorians , the ...
... allowed to retain their establishments as subjects and tributaries . It is certain that the Goths , and other Teutonic people who invaded the Eastern Empire , were nothing more than tribes of warriors , who , like the Dorians , the ...
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... allowed the hitherto subject Sclavonians to assume inde- pendence , and form themselves into warlike bands , in imitation of their masters . The warlike and agricultural Sclavonians from that time became as distinct as if they belonged ...
... allowed the hitherto subject Sclavonians to assume inde- pendence , and form themselves into warlike bands , in imitation of their masters . The warlike and agricultural Sclavonians from that time became as distinct as if they belonged ...
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... allowed to enjoy tranquil possession of the country . In the year 783 , the Empress Irene , who was an Athenian by birth , and consequently more deeply interested in the condition of the Greek population than her immediate predecessors ...
... allowed to enjoy tranquil possession of the country . In the year 783 , the Empress Irene , who was an Athenian by birth , and consequently more deeply interested in the condition of the Greek population than her immediate predecessors ...
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... allowed to wash away the productive soil of local institutions , and to leave only a few great central rocks insufficient to over- look the wide expanse occupied by despotic authority . The barbarism of the Sclavonians placed them ...
... allowed to wash away the productive soil of local institutions , and to leave only a few great central rocks insufficient to over- look the wide expanse occupied by despotic authority . The barbarism of the Sclavonians placed them ...
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... allowed to exist . The Byzantine empire in the middle of the eleventh century embraced the richest and most civilised portion of the world ; both in extent and population , it greatly surpassed any other European state . The Danube ...
... allowed to exist . The Byzantine empire in the middle of the eleventh century embraced the richest and most civilised portion of the world ; both in extent and population , it greatly surpassed any other European state . The Danube ...
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