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Theodore Spandounes: On the Origins of the Ottoman Emperors

By Donald M. Nicol

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0521585104, 9780521585101
LCC
DR485 .S6313 1997
Open Library ID
OL1007735M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (29926087 bytes)
Pages
161\96
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and the phenomenal expansion of the Ottoman Empire thereafter produced a ready market in the West for works about the origins, history and institutions of the Turks. Theodore Spandounes, himself of a Greek refugee family from Constantinople who had settled in Venice, was one of the first to publish such a work. Its final version, published in 1538, was written in Italian. This book offers the first English translation of the complete text, with a historical commentary and explanatory notes.

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