[244] After crossing the river the Turkish army evidently began to retreat to their own country. Why they went near Malatia is not very evident.
[245] Koili Hissar. See [p. 23]. According to Angiolello, it was near Erzingan that the Turks reached the Euphrates, and only the Acangi crossed on a foraging expedition, which is much more probable.
[246] Tocat, fifty-six miles from Sivas, with a population of forty thousand, and a very extensive trade.
[247] Sanjak.
[248] Achmet.
[249] It seems that the other Christian princes were not altogether so blind to the advantages of a Persian alliance as the Venetian writer would have us think.
[250] Caffa, anciently called Theodosia, situated in the Crimea, and then belonging to the Genoese, was a rich and busy port. It was subdued, with the rest of the Crimea, by Achmet Pasha in 1476.
[251] See [note, p. 16].
[252] Casimir IV reigned from 1447 to 1492. He defeated the Teutonic knights and also the Hungarians.
[253] Matthias Corvinus, son of the Great Huniades, the champion of Christendom against the Turks, reigned from 1458 to 1490.