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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... 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 variance with all the prejudices ...
... 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 variance with all the prejudices ...
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... imperial writer from the time of the great pestilence that depopulated the East in the year 746.1 The events , if really synchronous , could not have been very immedi- ately connected as cause and effect . The city population must have ...
... imperial writer from the time of the great pestilence that depopulated the East in the year 746.1 The events , if really synchronous , could not have been very immedi- ately connected as cause and effect . The city population must have ...
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... imperial administration . This 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 ...
... imperial administration . This 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 ...
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... imperial treasury an annual tribute of four hundred gold Byzants.1 The epitomiser of Strabo , who lived not long before the commencement of the eleventh century , speaks of the Sclavonians as forming almost the entire population of ...
... imperial treasury an annual tribute of four hundred gold Byzants.1 The epitomiser of Strabo , who lived not long before the commencement of the eleventh century , speaks of the Sclavonians as forming almost the entire population of ...
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... imperial guard , which bore the name of the Vardariots.1 Various colonies of the different Asiatic nations who penetrated into Europe from the north of the Black Sea in the tenth , eleventh , and twelfth centuries , were also ...
... imperial guard , which bore the name of the Vardariots.1 Various colonies of the different Asiatic nations who penetrated into Europe from the north of the Black Sea in the tenth , eleventh , and twelfth centuries , were also ...
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Page 494 - In concluding the history of this Greek state, we inquire in vain for any benefit that it conferred on the human race.