[786]. Miklosich et Müller, iii. p. 6. Such a factory can be seen to-day at Keurekdjilar, in Galata.
[787]. Paschal Chron., p. 582; Cedrenus, vol. i. pp. 609, 610; ii. p. 529.
[788]. De Top. CP., iii. c. i.; De Bosporo Thracio, ii. c. ii.
[789]. Page 454.
[790]. Pand. Hist Turc., s. 200.
[791]. Phrantzes, p. 254.
[792]. Ducas, p. 282. Phrantzes and Ducas are the only Byzantine writers who mention the Beautiful Gate.
[793]. Gyllius, De Top. CP., iii. c. i.; cf. Paspates, pp. 166, 167. The ground on which Yeni Validè Djamissi stands, near the Stamboul end of the Outer Bridge, belonged, as late as the seventeenth century, to Karaïte Jews, who claimed that the territory had been granted to their ancestors under the Byzantine Empire. In return for the seizure of the ground to build the mosque (1615-1655), the community received houses at Haskeui, and forty members of the community were exempted from taxation for life. As the site of the synagogue could not be sold, the mosque has had to pay the community an annual rent of thirty-two piastres.
[794]. Patriarch Constantius, Ancient and Modern Consple., p. 12.
[795]. Page 268.