Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Volume 13Francis Lieber Lea & Blanchard, 1851 |
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... VISIGOTHS . The powerful confedera- cy of nations under the name of Goths ( q . v . ) , was , at an early period , geographi- cally divided into Ostrogoths , who had their seats on the Pontus , and Visigoths , who inhabited Dacia ...
... VISIGOTHS . The powerful confedera- cy of nations under the name of Goths ( q . v . ) , was , at an early period , geographi- cally divided into Ostrogoths , who had their seats on the Pontus , and Visigoths , who inhabited Dacia ...
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... Visigoths and Romans con- tinued different . But the weakness of the Visigoths became manifest as soon as they came in contact with the Franks on the Loire , when the Catholic Clovis ( q . v . ) , on pretence that it was unjust to let ...
... Visigoths and Romans con- tinued different . But the weakness of the Visigoths became manifest as soon as they came in contact with the Franks on the Loire , when the Catholic Clovis ( q . v . ) , on pretence that it was unjust to let ...
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... Visigoths ; and many of them have been retained to the present day in the provincial law of Cas- tile and Catalonia . - The liturgy of the Visigoths , which was established by the assembly of Toledo , in 633 , for the pur- pose of ...
... Visigoths ; and many of them have been retained to the present day in the provincial law of Cas- tile and Catalonia . - The liturgy of the Visigoths , which was established by the assembly of Toledo , in 633 , for the pur- pose of ...
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... Visigoths , who had been prevented by Stilicho , in the year 397 , from subduing Greece , resolved to avenge himself , and in the year 400 attacked Italy . Honorius fled from Milan to the castle of Asta ( now Asti ) , upon the Tanarus ...
... Visigoths , who had been prevented by Stilicho , in the year 397 , from subduing Greece , resolved to avenge himself , and in the year 400 attacked Italy . Honorius fled from Milan to the castle of Asta ( now Asti ) , upon the Tanarus ...
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... Visigoths . Italy now breathed more freely . Rome arose proudly from its ashes ; and the empire might perhaps have acquired new vigor , but for the weakness of its ruler , who lived eleven years after the departure of Adolphus . Gaul ...
... Visigoths . Italy now breathed more freely . Rome arose proudly from its ashes ; and the empire might perhaps have acquired new vigor , but for the weakness of its ruler , who lived eleven years after the departure of Adolphus . Gaul ...
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