[230] At least, Cantacuzenos, IV. 38, p. 276, claims that he ransomed Tzympe.
[231] Cant., IV. 38, p. 283.
[232] Rumanian Chronicle, cited by Gregorović, Relations of Serbia with her Neighbouring States, principally in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Kazan, 1859, in an appendix.
[233] Cant., IV. 39-43, pp. 284-307; Greg., XXIX. 27-30, pp. 242-3.
[234] Cant., IV. 49, pp. 358-60.
[235] Tchorlu was the head-quarters of the Ottoman General Staff during the first month of the Balkan War. After the battle of Lulé Burgas, it became the head-quarters of the Bulgarians. From here the attack upon the defences of Constantinople was directed.
[236] Muralt, ii. 640, No. 10, n.
[237] Greg., XXIX. 34, pp. 224-6.
[238] During the five years following the proclamation of the Constitution in 1908, I lived, and travelled extensively, in the Ottoman Empire. Rarely did I meet a foreigner engaged in business there who had the slightest sympathy with the Osmanlis in their aspirations or in their successive crushing misfortunes. This is not a criticism, but merely the record of a fact.
[239] Schafarik, CVII.