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... Emperor ; for the Emperor happened to be dining there , at the chapel of St John the Forerunner by the Horologion . Hearing the child's story , the Emperor called together all his eunuchs and showed them to the boy one by one , asking ...
... Emperor ; for the Emperor happened to be dining there , at the chapel of St John the Forerunner by the Horologion . Hearing the child's story , the Emperor called together all his eunuchs and showed them to the boy one by one , asking ...
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... Emperor , his priggish daughter the historian Anna Comnena , and the pompous and abject chamberlains and courtiers of the Emperor . In the year 1453 the end came . Sultan Mehmed , the Conqueror , already master of much of Asia Minor ...
... Emperor , his priggish daughter the historian Anna Comnena , and the pompous and abject chamberlains and courtiers of the Emperor . In the year 1453 the end came . Sultan Mehmed , the Conqueror , already master of much of Asia Minor ...
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... Emperor , 190 Diogenes , 181 Dragases , Emperor Constantine , 44-5 Durrell , Lawrence : Byzance , 22 Gibbon , Edward : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , 113-14 , 146–7 , 149 , 235-7 Gilles , Pierre , 29 The Antiquities of ...
... Emperor , 190 Diogenes , 181 Dragases , Emperor Constantine , 44-5 Durrell , Lawrence : Byzance , 22 Gibbon , Edward : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , 113-14 , 146–7 , 149 , 235-7 Gilles , Pierre , 29 The Antiquities of ...
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