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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LX: The Fourth Crusade
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of Gunther, (Canisii Antiq.Lect.tom.iv.p.

v .-- viii.,) who celebrates the pilgrimage of his abbot Martin, one of the preaching rivals of Fulk of Neuilly.

His monastery, of the Cistercian order, was situate in the diocese of Basil.] [Footnote 46: Jadera, now Zara, was a Roman colony, which acknowledged Augustus for its parent.

It is now only two miles round, and contains five or six thousand inhabitants; but the fortifications are strong, and it is joined to the main land by a bridge.

See the travels of the two companions, Spon and Wheeler, (Voyage de Dalmatie, de Grece, &c., tom.
i.p.


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