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Marriott, The Eastern Question. Chapter 3 |
 | | Greece proper was divided up into various Frankish principalities, while the Aegean islands passed, for the most part, under the flag of the maritime Republic of Venice. |
 | | Their geographical situation, as was explained in the preceding chapter, though suggesting a highway to westward-bound invaders rendered them immune from conquest, and, as a fact, they have never actually submitted to a conqueror. |
 | | Hitherto Greece proper had been spared; but between 1397 and 1399 Bajazet conquered Thessaly, Phocis, Doris, Locris, part of Epirus, and Southern Albania Thus the conquest of the Balkan Peninsula was all but complete. |
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