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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... classes of the Hellenic race ; the other , to the numbers of the slave population , and to the manner in which slavery declined and disappeared . A doubt arises whether the agricultural slaves were exterminated by the barbarian invaders ...
... classes of the Hellenic race ; the other , to the numbers of the slave population , and to the manner in which slavery declined and disappeared . A doubt arises whether the agricultural slaves were exterminated by the barbarian invaders ...
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... classes of the popu- lation of Greece as they did of Rome , still they must have exerted a considerable influence on society . And here a question forces itself on the attention , -Whether the sin- gular corruption which the Greek ...
... classes of the popu- lation of Greece as they did of Rome , still they must have exerted a considerable influence on society . And here a question forces itself on the attention , -Whether the sin- gular corruption which the Greek ...
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... classes of 1 Ducange traces the progress of corruption in the Latin language , in the preface to his Glossarium mediæ et infimæ Latinitatis . Hallam , Introduction to the Literature of Europe in Fifteenth , Sixteenth , and Seventeenth ...
... classes of 1 Ducange traces the progress of corruption in the Latin language , in the preface to his Glossarium mediæ et infimæ Latinitatis . Hallam , Introduction to the Literature of Europe in Fifteenth , Sixteenth , and Seventeenth ...
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... class of society in its own sphere . and place . The steady diminution of the Greek race , from the time of Justinian I. to that of Leo . III . the Isaurian , is testified by the whole history of the period ; 1 Institutions Militaires ...
... class of society in its own sphere . and place . The steady diminution of the Greek race , from the time of Justinian I. to that of Leo . III . the Isaurian , is testified by the whole history of the period ; 1 Institutions Militaires ...
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... class of the population of southern Epirus , though the similarity of their language to that of the Sclavonians led ultimately to their becoming confounded with the mass of the Sclavonian colonists.2 The second Bulgarian kingdom ...
... class of the population of southern Epirus , though the similarity of their language to that of the Sclavonians led ultimately to their becoming confounded with the mass of the Sclavonian colonists.2 The second Bulgarian kingdom ...
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