Theodore Spandounes: On the Origins of the Ottoman EmperorsThe Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and the phenomenal expansion of the Ottoman Empire thereafter produced a ready market in the West for works about the origins, history and institutions of the Turks. Theodore Spandounes, himself of a Greek refugee family from Constantinople who had settled in Venice, was one of the first to publish such a work. Its final version, published in 1538, was written in Italian. This book offers the first English translation of the complete text, with a historical commentary and explanatory notes. |
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| Title | Theodore Spandounes: On the Origins of the Ottoman Emperors |
| Author | Theodōros Spandouginos |
| Editors | Donald M. Nicol, Nicol, Donald MacGillivray Nicol |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0521585104, 9780521585101 |
| Length | 161 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Ancient / General History / Asia / General History / General History / Middle East / General |
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