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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... -1461 BY GEORGE FINLAY HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE Ολβιος ὅστις τῆς ἱστορίας Ἔσχε μάθησιν . WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLI MG . 300.3 ПARYAND COLLEGE LIBRARY ΤΟ WILLIAM MARTIN LEAKE.
... -1461 BY GEORGE FINLAY HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE Ολβιος ὅστις τῆς ἱστορίας Ἔσχε μάθησιν . WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLI MG . 300.3 ПARYAND COLLEGE LIBRARY ΤΟ WILLIAM MARTIN LEAKE.
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... SOCIETY OF LITERATURE , MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT BERLIN , CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE AT PARIS , ETC. ETC. ETC. WHOSE LONG AND LABORIOUS EXERTIONS IN CLEARING THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF GREECE FROM ...
... SOCIETY OF LITERATURE , MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT BERLIN , CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE AT PARIS , ETC. ETC. ETC. WHOSE LONG AND LABORIOUS EXERTIONS IN CLEARING THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF GREECE FROM ...
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... society . And here a question forces itself on the attention , -Whether the sin- gular corruption which the Greek language has undergone , according to one unvarying type , in every land where it was spoken , from Syracuse to Trebizond ...
... society . And here a question forces itself on the attention , -Whether the sin- gular corruption which the Greek language has undergone , according to one unvarying type , in every land where it was spoken , from Syracuse to Trebizond ...
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... Danish - Ueber die Neugriechische Ausprache der Hellenischen Sprache , p . 38 ; and Ueber die sogenannten politischen Verse bei den Griechen , 27 . DESTRUCTION OF HELLENIC SOCIETY . 7 § 2 . citizens 6 CHANGES OF THE POPULATION .
... Danish - Ueber die Neugriechische Ausprache der Hellenischen Sprache , p . 38 ; and Ueber die sogenannten politischen Verse bei den Griechen , 27 . DESTRUCTION OF HELLENIC SOCIETY . 7 § 2 . citizens 6 CHANGES OF THE POPULATION .
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... SOCIETY . 7 § 2 . citizens into one mass , and facilitated the acquisition CHAP . I. of the boon of freedom by every Christian slave . The pride of the Hellenic race was stifled , and the Greeks for centuries were proud of the name of ...
... SOCIETY . 7 § 2 . citizens into one mass , and facilitated the acquisition CHAP . I. of the boon of freedom by every Christian slave . The pride of the Hellenic race was stifled , and the Greeks for centuries were proud of the name of ...
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