On the Origins of the Ottoman EmperorsCambridge University Press
Theodore Spandounes
ISBN: 0521585104
price: $54.95 hardcover
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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