Category: History - European
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The division of 887 parted off from the general mass of the Frankish dominions a distinct _Kingdom of the East-Franks_, the acknowledged head of the Frankish kingdoms, which, as...
23. CHAPTER X.The geographical, like the political, history of the Eastern Empire is wholly unlike that of the Western. ♦The Western Empire fell to pieces.♦ The Western Empire, in the stricte...
26. CHAPTER XIII.We have now gone, first through that great mass of European lands which formed part either of the Eastern or of the Western Empire, and then through those more distant, and main...
24. CHAPTER XI.Our survey of the two Empires and of the powers which sprang out of them has still left out of sight a large part of Europe, including some lands which formed part of the elder...
22. CHAPTER IX.The process by which a great power grew up to the west of the Western Empire has something in common with the process by which the powers spoken of in the later sections of the...
19. CHAPTER VI.The great dominion of the Franks, the German kingdom which had so strangely grown into a new Western Roman Empire, did not last long. In the course of the ninth century it altog...
18. CHAPTER V.The main point to be always borne in mind in the history, and therefore in the historical geography, of the sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries, is the continued existence of t...
16. CHAPTER III.The second of the three great peninsulas of southern Europe, that which lies between the other two, is that of Italy. ♦Different meanings of the name Italy.♦ The name of Italy h...
17. CHAPTER IV.The Roman dominion, as we have seen, grew up by the successive annexation of endless kingdoms, districts, and cities, each of which, after its annexation, still retained, whethe...
15. CHAPTER II.The Historical Geography of Europe, if looked at in chronological order, must begin with the most eastern of the three peninsulas of Southern Europe. Here the history of Europe,...
25. CHAPTER XII.The great peninsula of the West has much in common with the great peninsula of the North. ♦Slight relations with the Empire.♦ Save Sweden and Norway, no part of Western Europe h...
20. CHAPTER VII.The ecclesiastical geography of Western Europe was by this time formed. The great ecclesiastical divisions were now almost everywhere mapped out, and from hence they are more pe...
14. CHAPTER I.The work which we have now before us is to trace out the extent of territory which the different states and nations of Europe and the neighbouring lands have held at different t...
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11. CHAPTER XI.9. CHAPTER IX.6. CHAPTER VI.5. CHAPTER V.12. CHAPTER XII.4. CHAPTER IV.3. CHAPTER III.2. CHAPTER II.7. CHAPTER VII.1. CHAPTER I.