Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 15 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe; Greece Three centuries and a half have elapsed since, by the cession of the Morea to the Ottoman conqueror OI Constantinople, the name of Greece was blotted out from the map of Europe. It had long been reduced to a mere name. From the time that Athens fell before the arms of Sylla, (b. C. It had ceased to be an independent power. When the master of the Roman world removed the seat of empire from Italy to Thrace, Greece was still nothing more than a pro vince of Rome and the historian remarks, that in the lowest period of degeneracy and decay, the name of Romans adhered to the last fragments of the empire of constantinople. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.