The Destruction of the Greek Empire and the Story of the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks

by Edwin Pears

[461] Crit. lxiii.

[462] The Horaia Gate occupied the site of the present Stamboul Custom House. The Validé Mosque, at the end of the present outer bridge, is built on part of the Jewish quarter. See the subject fully discussed by Professor van Millingen, p. 221 and elsewhere.

[463] Leonard, 99; Phrantzes, 287.

[464] Barbaro, pp. 55, 56.

[465] The Moscovite, xxv. The whole chapter is full of improbable statements.

[466] Ch. lxi.

[467] Barbaro, p. 55.

[468] Thyselii Expugnatio, ch. xxvi.

[469] Phrantzes, p. 291.

[470] P. 57.