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;
maps
are
meant
to
be
companions
n
studying
he
history
dominion
Eastern,
Greek,
or
Byzantinepeninsula
...
the
islands
.
.
.
Byzantion .
Empire
. .
;
....
Bulgarian
kingdom
; occupa-ion
;
and
Empii'e
on
English
elements
a
rough
practical
way.
'
P.
334,
1.
9.
Aquitaine,
history,
o
mark
who
occupied
t,
just
as
much
as
the
names
round
the
Lauds.
Mediterranean
sea,
we
have
seen
act
as
a
kind
of
connecting
ink
between
in historic
West.
Vast
regions,
nce
Illyrian
r
Thracian
African
converts,
men
possibly
f
originally
indred
race
with
the
geographical
istrict
Avhich-
we
both sha e
Clearly
arked
as
COLONIES.
CHAP.
were
planted
on
the
^2a3an
coast
of
Asia.
We
have
seen
that
the
Asiatic
coast
and
the
islands
adjoining
t
a
part,
and
a
most
important
art,
not
only
really
become
a
Greek
country,
though
not
till
 
 
CHAP,
some
the heel
Italy,
s
they
were
one
by
one
conquered
by
Eorae,
were
commonly
left
as
separate
states,
in
throughout
the
first
broughtSpain
ryrenees
that
tionof
the
ancient
language
held
out,
as
it
has
done
ever
since.
The
conquest
of
Spain,
owiuo;
to
the
connexion
of
Trans-
the
country
with
Carthage,
thus
began
while
a
large
 ^aui-
part
even
of
Cisalpine
aul
was
still
unsubdued.
And
the
Eoman
Prench nation
Celts
adopted
Eoman
fashions,
parts
The
Dalmatian
war
soon
followed
CHAP.
III.
Conquest
of
Egypt.
B.C.
31.
Pax
Ro-
mana.
One
only
between
the
two
great
streams.
Meanwliile,
while
the
attempt
our
own
has
an
Danube,
were
really
hreaten-ng
to
the
Roman
power
Eoman
Jlli/ricum
nswered
roughly
to
European
EMPIRE.
CHAP,
from
the
Danube
to
the
southern
point
of
Peloponnesos.
name,
it
will
be
Macedonia
and
Dacia.
Teutonic
nations
within
the
Se'xl *
bounds
of
the
Eoman
Empire,
concern
us
now
only
so
far
as
theyWTOught
a
visible
change
on
the
map.
The
exact
relations
which
greatly
strengthened
heir
power
as
enemies
of
Eome.
New
nations
or
confederacies,
bearing,
rulers of
Eome. The
the
third
cen-ury
CHAP,
pressing
Alemanni,
formed
part
afresh.
history
nd
geography
ever
since,
it
may
be
Western
Empire
to
the
Eastern
began
to
form
century,
tlic
English
had
not
got
very
H
its
endless
IV,
wars
with
Persia,
clung
to
the
majesty
107
aflfectedthe
partnership
ith
their
TheCcpidae
overthrown
barbarian
allies,they
overthrew
the
kingdom
of
the
by
the
plays
a
great
part
in
the
history
f
countr}^
were
strength-ned
by
endless
partitions
mong
tlie
members
CHAP,
and
his
acquisition
f
the
patriciate
ractically
xtended
become
Rome,
Growing;
their rise.
It is
in
Germany
and
beyond
Germany
over
and also
STATES.
CHAP,
answered
to
no
national
division.
It
was
indeed
mainly
XL
a
kingdom
CHAP.
It
Danube
take
their
source
of the
Epte
was
granted
o
the
STATES.
CHAP,
pened
Empire.
It
Itahan
kiuo;dom,
and
was
962,
96S.
crowned
Emperor
at
STATES.
CHAP.
VI.
phyrogen-
netos.
Asiatic
Themes.
graplier
Emperors,
was,
as
could
hardly
fail
to
be
the
case,
the
same
part
as
that
which
held
out
for
the
longest
time
against
the
Eoman.
The
mountainous
regions
of
the
North
Asturia
fell
to
pieces,
the
Spanish
exactlv
as
and
the
Western
Empire
beset
by
neighbours
Bulgarians,
the
foundation
of
a
kingdom
directly
nd
indi-ectly.
The
Patzinaks
pressed
on
their
ones
were
seated
at
the
Old
Prefecture of
northern. This
VII.
The
Scandi-
II
avian
the
Scandinavian
kingdoms
became
more
settled,
ts
bishopricsarte
offfrom
their
allegiance
o
Hamburg
i.rovinces.
her
ecclesiastical
organizatio
The
original
ingdom
of
Poland
Church.
One
greatest
as
well
as
Moikrn
south-western
Germany ;
several
members
of
the
Austria.
the
northern
and
has
changed
kept
only
for
a
1772-179,3.
circles
of
Burgundy
and
of
Burgundy
of
the
into
Imperial
iefs
of
the
Valois
dukes,
together
ith
a
small
part
electorate,
altogether
ut
an
end
to
the
peninsular
osition
f
Silesia,
ven
as
regarded
he
strictly
erman
possessions
of
ceded
to
France
now
became
Prussian,
including
he
cities
of
Koln,
no
longer
metropolitan
ee.
Trier,
iin-
ster,
and
Paderborn.
third
In
the
north-east
corner
crowns.
We
These
w'ere
the
and the
some
points
on
the
coast.
became
parts
Grand Duke of
marquesses,
Montferrat
was
disputed
between
of
Farnese,siven
region,
Luzern,
Bern,
Freiburg,
Solothurn,
and
Basel,
all
gradually
ecame
members
of
The
Old
princes
in
that
county
for
two
land
between
the
which
arose
by
Germany
which
stillranks
among
the
greatest
in
Eui'ope.
This
is
the
the
Swiss
of
xheSviss
ihe
riginal
antons
in
town
of
Ziuj
witli
its
small
iJerVi,363.
territory.
And
lastly
ame
the
great
city
oi'
Bern,
end of tlie
had with
reachini^;
s
1239-12G8.
and tem-oral
Burgundian
and
Lotharingian
ingdoms
had
no
doubt
a
j
share
in
shaping
the
Empire
were
or
an
the
Em-
T-i
,
But
the
fjreat
Netherland
had
at
last
carried
out
tlie
schemes
of
a
single
kingdom
bearing
that
name.
name
Babenberg
Land-
Eisass
grave,
a
dominion
separated
Boliemia
kingdompassed
o
had
territory
ustrian
at
sea-faring
commonwealth
of
Ragusa.
The
movement
centurybegan
a
more
important
dvance
to
and
1152.
Eleanor
and
her
immediate
re-marriage
claims
of
were
were
kingdom.
sixteenth
The
first
great
advance
was
the
practica
Annexa-
amiexatiou
of
Pyrenees,
tion
of the
1
C ^
North America.
was
reached
early
in
the
sixteenth
century,
the
colonizatiou
of
Canada
began
a
generation
ater,
and
French
do-
mhiion
Basel
to
Nim-
IX.
century,
the
Empire
was
far
more
Greek
than
anything
else.
Manuel.
Turk
stillruled
in
generalbreak-up
of
the
Imperial
Increased
Dowcr.
were
stillleft
to
the
Empire.
The
Eoman
name
was
now
merely
creation
was
tho
a
while
again
city
f
the
Empire,
the
xsicene
power
in
these
regions
as
confirmed
by
1259.
 he
victory
f
Pelagonia,
in
pieces,
class
is
not
confined
to
the
Frank
powers
393
tiail.
Lastly,
ve
come
to
the
partialedressing
f
this
chap.
wrong
by
the
re-establishment
of
independent
Greek
1042.
Sicily
as
a
kingdom
was
her
turnmg
Venetian
histor}'.
I
point.
It
was
at
once
the
beginning
of
next
century,
century
Turk.
The
1390.
Athenian
duchy
itself,
aking
in
lands,
and
to
leave
no
power
of
either
race
able
to
keep
out
two
Emperors
called
in
proved
far
more
dangerous
han
fourteenth
century,
the
land
south
of
the
Danube,
called
Dobrutcha.
passed
from
Bulgaria
o
Magyar
back
to
the
point
at
which
it
stayed
till
Europe.
But
in
everything,
ave
the
mere
reckoning
of
years,
it
has
been
far
more
abidino-.
The
Venetian
points
n
the
Extent
of
coast
still
cscapcd.
steadily
gone
back.
The
first
great
blow
to
the
integrity
nd
independence
of
the
Ottoman
Empire
was
dealt
in
the
\yar
which
was
ended
by
century,
the
Empire
is
restored
to
its
full
extent
in
Europe
the Baltic
and the
Empire.
In
later
times
on
the
history
nd
geography
of
the
Slaves
great
gulfs
kingdom
of
1214-122.^.
passed
under
German
rule;
some
parts
have
been
largely
erman-zed.
But
Poland,
new
The
mu
r*
Poland
and
Eussia,
our
survey
takes
in
beyond
the
Elbe
beo:an
the
eastern
Dukes.
But
in
connexion
with
one
another.
possession
of
the
German
realm.
Silesia.
1289-132
Bohemia
Bohemia
went
on,
as
duchy
and
kingdom,^
ruled
by
native
princes
as
long-
race
by
annexing
the
merchant
towns
of
Germany
grew
spread
itself
over
the
Baltic,
the
Westfalian,
to
one
another,
geographical
s
well
as
political,
indered
the
Ilaiisa
from
ever
becoming
a
territorial
power
like
Switzerland
Christendom.
of the
;
again
became
Russian.
seventeenth
century
Eussia
won
back
a
small
territory
est
of
the
Dnieper,
ncluding
er
ancient
capital
f
Kief.
At
the
same
time
Poland
finally
gave
up
to
Eussia
the
superiority
ver
the
Cossacks
of
Ukraine,
possessions
ere
only
partly
lost,
o
the
profit
f
Brandenburg.
boundary
Tnoorpora
on
the
England
marched
1878 is the restored
out
of
Europe
that
Saracen
dominion
from
exactly
answering
o
geographical
pain
caliphate.
Out
of
the
break-up
of
the
a
Portugal
with
Milan
and
Elsewh re Nor-an
York^
Carlisle^
on
from
the
latest,
he
most
southern
and
the
most
northern,
began
through
English
oloniza-ion
in
peninsula
the
states
which
were
directly
ormed
by
splitting
on
the
Ottomans,
443,
444.
partitions
f.
212.
440.