[320] The peasantry around Samakov will point out to you the ridge, south-east of the modern town, over which he vanished. They believe that Sisman haunts the foothills of the Rhodope mountains, and rides headless in the night down into the plain. This tradition, and the statement of Ducange, viii. 289, that Sisman died in 1373 in Naples, makes possible the theory that there were three successive Sismans connected with the Ottoman conquest of Bulgaria.
[321] Hadji Khalfa, Rumeli, p. 38.
[322] von Kállay, Geschichte der Serben, i. 152.
[323] Ibid., i. 152-9; Jireček, op. cit., 319-20; Ljubić, Monumenta spect. ad hist. Slav. merid., iv. 189.
[324] Cant. IV., 50, pp. 360-2; Müller, Chron. Byz., under 1364.
[325] Miklositch, Acta Serbica, CLIII.
[326] Ibid., CLX.
[327] Sons of a poor Dalmatian nobleman: Ducange, Familiae Byz. viii. 294.
[328] At Ipek, with an independent patriarch: Engel, Geschichte von Serbien, p. 279.
[329] Miklositch-Müller, Acta gr., CLXII; MS. Wiener Bibl., Gesch. gr., No. 47, fol. 290.