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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... hundred and fifty thousand souls was settled on the shores of the Hellespont , collected from the tribes established in Thrace and the neighbourhood of Thessa- lonica . 2 In order to understand correctly how far the diminution of the ...
... hundred and fifty thousand souls was settled on the shores of the Hellespont , collected from the tribes established in Thrace and the neighbourhood of Thessa- lonica . 2 In order to understand correctly how far the diminution of the ...
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... hundred thousand men , and extended their devastations into Greece.1 About this time they were in hostile collision with the Chagan of the Avars , to whom they had formerly paid tribute . Many Sclavonian tribes , however , continued to ...
... hundred thousand men , and extended their devastations into Greece.1 About this time they were in hostile collision with the Chagan of the Avars , to whom they had formerly paid tribute . Many Sclavonian tribes , however , continued to ...
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... hundred and eighteen years , and had so completely separated it from the Byzantine empire that no Byzantine official dared to put his foot in the country . " The Patriarch thus dates the establishment of the Avars in the Peloponnesus ...
... hundred and eighteen years , and had so completely separated it from the Byzantine empire that no Byzantine official dared to put his foot in the country . " The Patriarch thus dates the establishment of the Avars in the Peloponnesus ...
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... hundred . The insignificancy of these sums must be considered as a 1 Constantine Porphyrogenitus calls them Μιληγγοὶ καὶ Ἐζερῖται ; the Chronicle of the Conquest of the Morea , Meλiyyo . SCLAVONIANS BECOME TRIBUTARY . 25 proof that they ...
... hundred . The insignificancy of these sums must be considered as a 1 Constantine Porphyrogenitus calls them Μιληγγοὶ καὶ Ἐζερῖται ; the Chronicle of the Conquest of the Morea , Meλiyyo . SCLAVONIANS BECOME TRIBUTARY . 25 proof that they ...
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... hundred gold Byzants , and the tribute of the Ezerits was fixed at the same amount . The successor of Krinites embroiled the affairs of his province ; and a Sclavonian tribe , called the Slavesians , invading the Peloponnesus ...
... hundred gold Byzants , and the tribute of the Ezerits was fixed at the same amount . The successor of Krinites embroiled the affairs of his province ; and a Sclavonian tribe , called the Slavesians , invading the Peloponnesus ...
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