[330] Ibid., CLX; ibid., fol. 286.
[331] Orbini, p. 275.
[332] Engel, op. cit., pp. 321 f. For documented details, Müller, ed. Byz. Analekten, pp. 359-64, 405-6, based on Vienna MS. referred to above.
[333] Now called Cermen or Tchirman.
[334] Svilengrad, now the frontier station of Bulgaria, was known from 1361 to 1913 as Mustapha Pasha. Before the recent Balkan war, it was the frontier railway station of Turkey.
[335] But there were certainly two distinct battles here, in 1363 and in 1371. See p. 124, n. 2, above.
[336] Ducange, op. cit., p. 294; Bialloblotszky’s translation of Rabbi Joseph, i. 240; Klaić, p. 199; Jireček, pp. 329-30. Zinkeisen, i. 224, confuses this battle with the one fought in 1363.
[337] In Miklositch, Chrestomathia palaeoslav., p. 77.
[338] Phr., I. 26, p. 80, gives the capture of these cities in the same campaign as that in which Monastir was acquired, with 1386 as date. But the Serbian chronicles are so explicit here that we can follow them without hesitation, especially as they are seconded by the Ottoman historians. Cf. Hammer, i. 241, and Zinkeisen, i. 229.
[339] Pope Gregory XI, writing to Louis of Hungary, May 14, 1372, informed him that the Osmanlis had conquered some parts of Greece, ‘subactis quibusdam magnatibus Rasciae, tum in eis dominantibus’. Rascia was Servia. Theiner, Monumenta Hungarica, ii. 115.