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... Constantinople , I refer the reader to Chapter 1 , for Byzantium is a topic all its own and not conveniently to be summarised in a paragraph . For most travellers the world of Byzantium was no less strange than that of the Ottoman Turk ...
... Constantinople , I refer the reader to Chapter 1 , for Byzantium is a topic all its own and not conveniently to be summarised in a paragraph . For most travellers the world of Byzantium was no less strange than that of the Ottoman Turk ...
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... Constantinople , the people that attended upon his person at that time , were said to amount to the number of 15000. First rode the Subbashaw of Constantinople and Galata , with one hundred men on horsebacke , and other servants also ...
... Constantinople , the people that attended upon his person at that time , were said to amount to the number of 15000. First rode the Subbashaw of Constantinople and Galata , with one hundred men on horsebacke , and other servants also ...
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... Constantinople Imaginaire ( 1984 ) ; about the legends of medieval Constantinople John Freely , Stamboul Sketches ( Istanbul : Redhouse 1973 ) ; Istanbul's answer to Norman Douglas Robert Liddell , Byzantium and Istanbul ( 1956 ) ...
... Constantinople Imaginaire ( 1984 ) ; about the legends of medieval Constantinople John Freely , Stamboul Sketches ( Istanbul : Redhouse 1973 ) ; Istanbul's answer to Norman Douglas Robert Liddell , Byzantium and Istanbul ( 1956 ) ...
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