I'm definitely not an English teacher but it might help if you look at the sentence a little different to bring more clarity. For instance, if you read it: Since N. had accepted the title "...", his position was, to say the least, somewhat anomalous.
The other part : "but recently agreed to recognize the administration of M. and" is simply extra information about the subject "N".
I hope that helps a bit
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February 25, 2017
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Here in America we speak with soooooo much slang but there's a few different accents depending on which part of the country the person is from. I'm from Michigan and we tend to speak clearer and most people can understand us as opposed to people from the south. Hearing Australians, New Zealanders, and British people speak can definitely be confusing for some but after you get more comfortable with English you'll find understanding them a lot easier. Even I have a tough time understand my friends from other English speaking countries lol. If anyone needs to practice their English I'd be more the happy chatting it up, just shoot me a message and we'll set it up!
