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User Review - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingConstantine VII was a byzantine Emperor from the age of two, until his death, aged 54, on Nov. 9, 959CE. He spent the bulk of his life in relative obscurity with active ruling being fought for by a ... Read full review
Contents
PART I | 1 |
THE AUTONOMOUS CITYSTATES KHERSÓN THE NINE | 5 |
CONSTANTINES CHARACTER | 15 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Constantine Porphyrogenitus and His World |
| Author | Arnold Toynbee |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 24, 2008 |
| ISBN | 019215253X, 9780192152534 |
| Length | 768 pages |
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