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... possession of Spain ; and at the Diet , or legislative assembly , held by Charlemagne at Paderborn , in Saxony , in the year 777 , one of its Mahometan governors , the Emir of Zaragoza , implored his help against the Moorish king of ...
... possession of Spain ; and at the Diet , or legislative assembly , held by Charlemagne at Paderborn , in Saxony , in the year 777 , one of its Mahometan governors , the Emir of Zaragoza , implored his help against the Moorish king of ...
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... possession of Exeter ; nor was it until he had fought against them eight pitched battles in one year that they were again reduced to sue for peace . More than equitable terms were granted to them by this prince , whose generosity and ...
... possession of Exeter ; nor was it until he had fought against them eight pitched battles in one year that they were again reduced to sue for peace . More than equitable terms were granted to them by this prince , whose generosity and ...
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... possession of what was once the Christian world in the East , its capital city , Constantinople , -founded by the great Constantine , the first Roman emperor who professed the true faith , having fallen into their hands in 1453 , their ...
... possession of what was once the Christian world in the East , its capital city , Constantinople , -founded by the great Constantine , the first Roman emperor who professed the true faith , having fallen into their hands in 1453 , their ...
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... possession of what was once the Christian world in the East , its capital city , Constantinople , -founded by the great Constantine , the first Roman emperor who professed the true faith , -having fallen into their hands in 1453 , their ...
... possession of what was once the Christian world in the East , its capital city , Constantinople , -founded by the great Constantine , the first Roman emperor who professed the true faith , -having fallen into their hands in 1453 , their ...
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... possessions in that country ; but they were to find a still more formidable and successful opponent in his successor ... possessed himself of a fortress on the borders of the desert , whence he and his companions not only plundered the ...
... possessions in that country ; but they were to find a still more formidable and successful opponent in his successor ... possessed himself of a fortress on the borders of the desert , whence he and his companions not only plundered the ...
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