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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... race settled by the Byzantine emperors in Thrace and Macedonia , 6. Bulgarians and Vallachians in Greece , 7. Albanians , 8. Tzacones or Lacones , 9. Summary , Page 1 742 14 31 33 36 39 41 * 08 08 08 0 CHAPTER II . CAUSES OF HOSTILE ...
... race settled by the Byzantine emperors in Thrace and Macedonia , 6. Bulgarians and Vallachians in Greece , 7. Albanians , 8. Tzacones or Lacones , 9. Summary , Page 1 742 14 31 33 36 39 41 * 08 08 08 0 CHAPTER II . CAUSES OF HOSTILE ...
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... races speaking the French language in the west of Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , 77 CHAPTER III . OVERTHROW OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE BY THE CRUSADERS.- A. D. 1096-1204 . § 1. The Crusades , 2. Quarrels with the ...
... races speaking the French language in the west of Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , 77 CHAPTER III . OVERTHROW OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE BY THE CRUSADERS.- A. D. 1096-1204 . § 1. The Crusades , 2. Quarrels with the ...
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... race . The Roman conquest first compressed the Hellenic race into a distinct nation . That union was effected by the destruction of the local patriotism that gives its greatest charm to ancient history . Fortunately , it had been fully ...
... race . The Roman conquest first compressed the Hellenic race into a distinct nation . That union was effected by the destruction of the local patriotism that gives its greatest charm to ancient history . Fortunately , it had been fully ...
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... race as much as individuals ; and surely the Greeks , who have been so long deprived of glory in their immediate progenitors , may be pardoned for dis- playing a zealous eagerness to participate directly in the fame of a past world ...
... race as much as individuals ; and surely the Greeks , who have been so long deprived of glory in their immediate progenitors , may be pardoned for dis- playing a zealous eagerness to participate directly in the fame of a past world ...
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... race of which the Pelasgi were the prin- cipal branch , is a question that will probably always remain doubtful . Whether the Greeks exterminated this older race , as our own historians represent the Saxons to have exterminated the ...
... race of which the Pelasgi were the prin- cipal branch , is a question that will probably always remain doubtful . Whether the Greeks exterminated this older race , as our own historians represent the Saxons to have exterminated the ...
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