chapter 40._

PALÆOLITHIC PERIOD.

See STONE AGE.

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PALÆOLOGI, The.

The family which occupied the Greek imperial throne, at Nicæa and at Constantinople, from 1260, when Michael Palæologus seized the crown, until the Empire was extinguished by the Turks in 1453.

_E. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,