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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... 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 Greek and Roman ...
... 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 Greek and Roman ...
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... 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 be ...
... 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 be ...
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... thousand Sclavonians to Asia on one occasion . His removal of the Mardaite population of Mount Lebanon was on the same extensive scale . Future emperors encouraged emigration to as great an extent . A colony of Persians was established ...
... thousand Sclavonians to Asia on one occasion . His removal of the Mardaite population of Mount Lebanon was on the same extensive scale . Future emperors encouraged emigration to as great an extent . A colony of Persians was established ...
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... thousand are collected in the town of Lenidhi . The language of the Tzakones is marked by many peculiarities ; but whether it be a relic of the dialect of the Kynourians , who , Herodotus informs us , were , like the Arcadians ...
... thousand are collected in the town of Lenidhi . The language of the Tzakones is marked by many peculiarities ; but whether it be a relic of the dialect of the Kynourians , who , Herodotus informs us , were , like the Arcadians ...
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... thousands of tongues , lost their ancient names and received strange designations , which became as universally known as those which they sup- planted . Yet in some continental districts , and in most of the islands , we find Hellenic ...
... thousands of tongues , lost their ancient names and received strange designations , which became as universally known as those which they sup- planted . Yet in some continental districts , and in most of the islands , we find Hellenic ...
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Page 452 - ... the Ganges to Damascus and the Archipelago, Asia was in the hand of Timour ; his armies were invincible, his ambition was boundless, and his zeal might aspire to conquer and convert the Christian kingdoms of the West, which already trembled at his name. He touched the utmost verge of the land ; but an insuperable though narrow sea rolled between the two continents of Europe and Asia, and the lord of so many tomans, or myriads of horse, was not master of a single galley.
Page 494 - In concluding the history of this Greek state, we inquire in vain for any benefit that it conferred on the human race.