History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6Gibbon, Edward
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
Gibbon, Edward
Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
9 (return) [ Ducange (Hist. de C. P. ii. 6) has marked the
conquests made by the state or nobles of Venice of the Islands of
Candia, Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Naxos, Paros, Melos, Andros,
Mycone, Syro, Cea, and Lemnos.]
10 (return) [ Boniface sold the Isle of Candia, August 12, A.D.
1204. See the act in Sanuto, p. 533: but I cannot understand how
it could be his mother’s portion, or how she could be the
daughter of an emperor Alexius.]
11 (return) [ In the year 1212, the doge Peter Zani sent a colony
to Candia, drawn from every quarter of Venice. But in their
savage manners and frequent rebellions, the Candiots may be
compared to the Corsicans under the yoke of Genoa; and when I
compare the accounts of Belon and Tournefort, I cannot discern
much difference between the Venetian and the Turkish island.]
12 (return) [ Villehardouin (No. 159, 160, 173—177) and Nicetas
(p. 387—394) describe the expedition into Greece of the marquis
Boniface. The Choniate might derive his information from his
brother Michael, archbishop of Athens, whom he paints as an
orator, a statesman, and a saint. His encomium of Athens, and the
description of Tempe, should be published from the Bodleian MS.
of Nicetas, (Fabric. Bibliot. Græc. tom. vi. p. 405,) and would
have deserved Mr. Harris’s inquiries.]
13 (return) [ Napoli de Romania, or Nauplia, the ancient seaport
of Argos, is still a place of strength and consideration, situate
on a rocky peninsula, with a good harbor, (Chandler’s Travels
into Greece, p. 227.)]
14 (return) [ I have softened the expression of Nicetas, who
strives to expose the presumption of the Franks. See the Rebus
post C. P. expugnatam, p. 375—384.]
15 (return) [ A city surrounded by the River Hebrus, and six
leagues to the south of Adrianople, received from its double wall
the Greek name of Didymoteichos, insensibly corrupted into
Demotica and Dimot. I have preferred the more convenient and
modern appellation of Demotica. This place was the last Turkish
residence of Charles XII.]
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