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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... forces itself on the attention , -Whether the sin- gular corruption which the Greek language has undergone , according to one unvarying type , in every land where it was spoken , from Syracuse to Trebizond , must not be , in great part ...
... forces itself on the attention , -Whether the sin- gular corruption which the Greek language has undergone , according to one unvarying type , in every land where it was spoken , from Syracuse to Trebizond , must not be , in great part ...
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... force themselves on the attention . This depopulation was increased and perpetuated by the immense landed estates which accumulated in the hands of individual proprietors . The expense of maintaining good roads and other adjuncts of ...
... force themselves on the attention . This depopulation was increased and perpetuated by the immense landed estates which accumulated in the hands of individual proprietors . The expense of maintaining good roads and other adjuncts of ...
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... force marched into the Peloponnesus , ravaged the lands of the Sclavonians , carried off an immense booty and many prisoners , and compelled all the independent tribes to acknowledge themselves tributary to the Byzantine empire . In ...
... force marched into the Peloponnesus , ravaged the lands of the Sclavonians , carried off an immense booty and many prisoners , and compelled all the independent tribes to acknowledge themselves tributary to the Byzantine empire . In ...
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... force , commanded by Theoktistos the Pro- tospatharias , does not appear to have encountered any very obstinate resistance on the part of the rebels . Two tribes the Melings , who occupied the slopes of Taÿgetus , which had already ...
... force , commanded by Theoktistos the Pro- tospatharias , does not appear to have encountered any very obstinate resistance on the part of the rebels . Two tribes the Melings , who occupied the slopes of Taÿgetus , which had already ...
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... force of the torrent before Charles Martel encountered one of its minor rills . At a later period the Bulgarian kingdom was destroyed , and many of the lost provinces in Europe recovered , so that the Danube , in the eleventh century ...
... force of the torrent before Charles Martel encountered one of its minor rills . At a later period the Bulgarian kingdom was destroyed , and many of the lost provinces in Europe recovered , so that the Danube , in the eleventh century ...
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