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 1  3,4 |          it remained in complete possession of the Byzantine Empire,
 2  3,12|       nations were unable to get possession of it.”[121] A German scholar
 3  4,1 |          Islam was “the complete possession of Arabia.”[35] Caetani
 4  4,1 |          year 634 the Arabs took possession of the Byzantine fortress
 5  4,1 |  defection. The Lombards were in possession of a large part of Italy.
 6  6,3 |   occupied. It was partly on the possession of the larger part of Byzantine
 7  6,7 |       church had already been in possession of enormous landed estates.
 8  6,7 |         permit them to remain in possession of what they had already
 9  7,1 |        other words, could obtain possession of what the Venetians themselves
10  7,1 |      pressed upon Venice: Norman possession of the Ionian Islands, especially
11  7,1 |         Asia Minor. Having taken possession by means of his fleet of
12  7,1 |    against the caliph Hakim took possession of Syria, forced the Christians
13  7,1 |         century the Normans took possession of Sicily, they found there,
14  7,1 |   Georgia, the Seljuqs had taken possession of that land in the eleventh
15  7,1 |     definitely planned to regain possession of Jerusalem. This plan
16  7,1 |     fixed his ambitions upon the possession of Antioch. Thus, the Normans
17  7,1 | established there an independent possession, which, however, was to
18  7,1 |        campaign of 1081, to take possession of Dyrrachium (Durazzo)
19  7,1 |       son Nur‑ad‑Din easily took possession of it, and then the Christians
20  7,1 |         who at that time were in possession of Lisbon in the Pyrenean
21  7,1 |    Venetian vessels, Manuel took possession of Corfu.~ Roger realized
22  7,1 |        also an intention to take possession of the Byzantine throne
23  7,1 |          the Emperor should take possession of all the conquered territories
24  7,2 |     leave the Asens in permanent possession of Bulgaria and secure the
25  7,2 |        twelfth century had taken possession of Damascus, began to threaten
26  7,2 |          ruling there, had taken possession of Egypt at the end of the
27  7,2 |           His plans embraced the possession of all the Christian East,
28  7,3 |          of Venice, to which the possession of the eastern markets promised
29  7,3 |         crusaders, in July, took possession of the city. Alexius III,
30  7,3 |         the other crusaders; the possession of St. Sophia and the election
31  7,3 |    crusaders succeeded in taking possession of Constantinople. The Emperor
32  7,3 |        or smaller fiefs, for the possession of which the western knights
33  7,3 |       Franks had lost Morea, the possession of Clermont only would have
34  7,4 |     western Emperor from getting possession of the Eastern Empire, endeavored
35  8,2 |          leader who in 1261 took possession of Constantinople and restored,
36  8,4 |   pretext his real aim of taking possession of the whole of Asia Minor.
37  8,4 |         that Theodore might take possession of the throne of Constantine
38  8,5 |         galleys in order to take possession of Constantinople; therefore
39  8,7 |       without great effort, took possession of Thessalonica, the second
40  8,8 |     battle. To John Vatatzes the possession of Hadrianople might open
41  8,10|          Vatatzes’ aim of taking possession of Constantinople. Close
42  8,12|         without difficulty, took possession of this city. The state
43  8,13|       the troops of Michael took possession of Constantinople. Michael
44  8,13|        before the crusaders took possession of it. Since they found
45  8,15|        and the island became the possession of the Emperor of Nicaea.[
46  8,17|         land given in hereditary possession on definite conditions.
47  8,17|       was not connected with the possession of a territory and meant
48  8,17|      dispute which concerned the possession of land by the Athenian
49  8,17|      which passed into monastery possession augmented still more rapidly.
50  8,17|           Alexius Comnenus, took possession of the throne and founded
51  9,3 |         was dreaming, if he took possession of Constantinople, of the
52  9,3 |      within his rights in taking possession of Sicily. Michael VIII
53  9,4 |        Palestine passed into the possession of the Muhammedans.~ This
54  9,5 |         Dushan had already taken possession of northern Macedonia and
55  9,5 |        approached Seres and took possession of it. ... After that, becoming
56  9,5 |     wrote T. Florinsky, “to take possession of Constantinople was due
57  9,5 |  peninsula. The desire of taking possession of this southeast corner,
58  9,6 |        near Constantinople, took possession of such important centers
59  9,6 |        strategic point, to whose possession they had so eagerly aspired.~
60  9,8 |          money. Venice in taking possession of this important commercial
61  9,8 |          St. Mark wanted to take possession of the wall on the Isthmus
62  9,9 |     means by which he might take possession of Constantinople.” He spent
63  9,9 |          the same time they took possession of the remnants of the Despotat
64  9,17|     Serbia, Stephen Dushan, took possession of Thessaly.[312] In some
65  9,17|       Turks; gradually they took possession of Constantinople and the