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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... formed the bulk of the population in ancient Hellas . The precise extent to which this Sclavonian colonisation was carried has been the subject of warm discussion . One party still maintains that the present inhabitants of Greece are ...
... formed the bulk of the population in ancient Hellas . The precise extent to which this Sclavonian colonisation was carried has been the subject of warm discussion . One party still maintains that the present inhabitants of Greece are ...
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... formed at least one- half of the population . Now , although the freedmen and descendants of liberated foreign slaves never formed as important an element in the higher classes of the popu- lation of Greece as they did of Rome , still ...
... formed at least one- half of the population . Now , although the freedmen and descendants of liberated foreign slaves never formed as important an element in the higher classes of the popu- lation of Greece as they did of Rome , still ...
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... forming a partnership with the imperial 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 ...
... forming a partnership with the imperial 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 ...
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... forming the mass of the inhabitants within the limits once occupied by the Hellenic race.3 In these cases of ... formed the bulk of the population in the wide - extended territories that spread from the shores of the Adriatic to ...
... forming the mass of the inhabitants within the limits once occupied by the Hellenic race.3 In these cases of ... formed the bulk of the population in the wide - extended territories that spread from the shores of the Adriatic to ...
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... formed populous settlements in northern Greece , is a mere matter of conjecture . The passage of the ecclesiastical historian Evagrius , in which the Avar invasion of Greece is mentioned , has been the object of much criticism . 1 SECT ...
... formed populous settlements in northern Greece , is a mere matter of conjecture . The passage of the ecclesiastical historian Evagrius , in which the Avar invasion of Greece is mentioned , has been the object of much criticism . 1 SECT ...
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