Five hundred years ago the great walled city of Constantinople fell under the relentless siege of the Ottoman Turks led by Sultan Mehmed II, Mehmed the Conqueror. Kristovoulos, one of the vanquished Greeks, later entered into the service of the Conqueror and began to write a history of the Sultan's life, starting with the year 1451, the beginning of Mehmed's 31-year reign. Death apparently prevented Kritovoulos from completing his account, but the manuscript covering the first seventeen years has been preserved and this exciting chronicle is here translated into English for the first time.
Charles T. Riggs, who died in February 1953 at Robert College in modern Istanbul, was a missionary in the Near East.
Originally published in 1954.
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Publisher
Princeton University PressYear
2019Print ISBN
9780691197906
9780691197913
eBook ISBN
9780691198187
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§
304.
For
from
the
time
he
took
charge
of
the
affairs
of
the
great
Sultan,
he
gave
everything
in
this
great
dominion
a
better
prospect
by
his
wonderful
zeal
and
his
fine
planning
as
well
as
by
his
implicit
and
unqualified
faith
in
and
good-
will
towards
his
sovereign.
He
was
thus
a
man
of
better
character
than
them
all,
as
shown
by
his
accomplishments.
§
305.
When
the
Sultan
had
done
these
things
in
Adri-
anople,
he
went
back
in
the
autumn
to
Byzantium,
so
the
year
6961
counting
from
the
beginning
went
by,
which
was
the
third
of
the
Sultan's
reign
[
A.D
.
1453].
PART
II
S
U
M
M
A
R
Y
This
includes
the
history
of
the
expedition
into
Enos,
the
fight
with
the
Triballi
and
their
total
defeat
and
enslavement,
and
the
capture
of
the
is-
lands
of
Lemnos,
Thasos,
and
Samothrace
by
the
Italians.
Time
involved:
four
years
[
A.D
.
1454-
1457].
Table of contents
- 9780691197906_FC
- Riggs_History_Web
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