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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... possession of the Peloponnesus for two 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 ...
... possession of the Peloponnesus for two 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 ...
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... possession of the country . In the year 783 , the Empress Irene , who was an Athenian by birth , and consequently more deeply interested in the condition of the Greek population than her immediate predecessors , sent an army into Greece ...
... possession of the country . In the year 783 , the Empress Irene , who was an Athenian by birth , and consequently more deeply interested in the condition of the Greek population than her immediate predecessors , sent an army into Greece ...
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... possession of the districts which had been occupied by the Sclavonians for six generations . The progress of society made the Greeks the encroaching party , and their encroachments produced hostilities . In the reign of the Emperor ...
... possession of the districts which had been occupied by the Sclavonians for six generations . The progress of society made the Greeks the encroaching party , and their encroachments produced hostilities . In the reign of the Emperor ...
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... possession of the Greeks was the fortress of Maina . In that retired corner of Laconia , a small remnant of the Greek race survived , living in a state of isolation , poverty , and barbarism . So completely had they been separated from ...
... possession of the Greeks was the fortress of Maina . In that retired corner of Laconia , a small remnant of the Greek race survived , living in a state of isolation , poverty , and barbarism . So completely had they been separated from ...
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... possession of the countries once occupied by the Sclavonians . It is natural that every year should diminish the number of these names , were it only by the corruption of Sclavonian into Greek words of similar sound or import ; and it ...
... possession of the countries once occupied by the Sclavonians . It is natural that every year should diminish the number of these names , were it only by the corruption of Sclavonian into Greek words of similar sound or import ; and it ...
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