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| | Sketches in the History of Western Philosophy |
 | | Indeed, when the Emperor Nicephorus I colonized people from Anatolia into Greece itself, it leaves us wondering how many modern Greeks are actually descendants of Cappadocians, Galatians, etc. Eventually, however, the Turkish conquest erased whatever may have remained of all of them in their homeland. |
 | | This was a complex of buildings in the hills above Sparta in the Peloponnesus -- an area which in the Middle Ages was called the "Morea." After being seized by the Crusaders, the area around Sparta, Laconia, was retrieved by the Palaeologi (from the Princes of Achaea) in 1261. |
 | | By 1348 it became a kind of viceroyalty of the Empire, with the capital at Mistra, ruled by its own Despot, who were sons or brothers of the reigning Emperor -- thus, the last Emperor, Constantine XI, began as one of the Despots. |
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