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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... authority for his own time , which may extend considerably into the third century . See the dialogue with Sostratus in the Life of Herodes Atticus , and the Life of Apollonius of Tyana , lib . viii . § 12 . § 1 . CHAP . I. after the ...
... authority for his own time , which may extend considerably into the third century . See the dialogue with Sostratus in the Life of Herodes Atticus , and the Life of Apollonius of Tyana , lib . viii . § 12 . § 1 . CHAP . I. after the ...
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... authority , acquired a more energetic existence than any nationality could have conferred : it controlled the actions and the intellects of the Greeks with despotic power . A system of laws at variance with all the prejudices of ancient ...
... authority , acquired a more energetic existence than any nationality could have conferred : it controlled the actions and the intellects of the Greeks with despotic power . A system of laws at variance with all the prejudices of ancient ...
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... authorities - Tafel , De Thessalonicâ , & c . , p . lviii . , xci ; and the authorities he quotes . Theophanes , p . 288 , 304 , 305 . The Patriarch Nicephorus mentions the Sclavonians as united in great num- bers with the Avar armies ...
... authorities - Tafel , De Thessalonicâ , & c . , p . lviii . , xci ; and the authorities he quotes . Theophanes , p . 288 , 304 , 305 . The Patriarch Nicephorus mentions the Sclavonians as united in great num- bers with the Avar armies ...
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... Euboea , which he must have derived from another source , so that he may have seen the same original authority as the Patriarch . SCLAVONIANS ATTACK PATRAS . 17 his chronology to have been 16 CHANGES IN THE POPULATION .
... Euboea , which he must have derived from another source , so that he may have seen the same original authority as the Patriarch . SCLAVONIANS ATTACK PATRAS . 17 his chronology to have been 16 CHANGES IN THE POPULATION .
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... authority , differs from the Patriarch Nikolaos , and places the completion of the colonisation of the Peloponnesus by the Sclavonians in the year 746.1 At all events these foreigners , who had invaded the peninsula at some period ...
... authority , differs from the Patriarch Nikolaos , and places the completion of the colonisation of the Peloponnesus by the Sclavonians in the year 746.1 At all events these foreigners , who had invaded the peninsula at some period ...
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