Asia Minor, railways in, 11-12; new ethnic elements in, 14-15; obscure geographical names in, 32; exodus of Greeks to coast of, 35; Catalans in, 36-8, 123, 301; importance of Aegaean islands for control of, 43; not conquered by early Osmanlis, 68-9, 300-2; Black Death in, 96; Crusaders’ road through, 162; Bayezid nominal master of greater part of, 191; Timur invades, 257-60; Mongol invasions of, 270-3, 300; Turkish emirates in, 277-301. Athens, Osmanlis in, 231. Attika, Ottoman invasions of, 147, 186, 205. Ayasoluk, 185, 283, 286, 295. Bagdad, 244, 249, 269. Balikesri, 66, 69, 286, 291, 294. Balkan Christians prefer Ottoman rule to that of Catholics, 133, 194, 240. ---- peninsula, distance between cities of, 162; Moslem immigration into, 196, 230-91; Venetian fear of Hungarian hegemony in, 207; Ottoman activities cease in, 243. Balsa of Albania, 159. Baphaeon, battle of, 34, 45. Bayezid, assassinates Yakub upon his accession, 180; marries daughter of Lazar, 183; conquers Anatolian emirates, 184-91, 274; invests Smyrna, 185; completes conquest of Bulgaria, 195; receives privileges in Constantinople, 199; propitiated by Venetians and Genoese, 204-5, 207; continues subjugation of Albania and Greece, 230, 243; defeats crusaders at Nicopolis, 216-24; invades the Morea, 228-32; settles Anatolian Turks in Balkan peninsula, and pushes siege of Constantinople after Nicopolis, 230-4; extends conquests to valley of the Euphrates, and comes into contact with Timur, 244; defies Timur, 246; defeated by Timur at Angora, 251-5; taken prisoner and humiliated, 253-6; dies at Ak Sheïr, 256; arrogance of, 181-2, 209, 227, 246, 249; origin of nickname _Yildirim_, 188; contemporary western conception of, 208; change of character after success, 225, 235, 249, 257; claims to greatness as a statesman, 235; humble origin of, 245, 267; wrong tactics at Angora, 251-2; discussion of cage story, 255-6; durability of conquests of, 262. Bayezid, sons of, confusion of western writers concerning identity of, 246, 252; fate of, after Angora, 255; fight for succession, 259. Belgrad, 162. Bigha, Catalan colony of, 123, 294, 301. Biledjik, 11, 12, 22, 33. Black Death, 95-6, 115. ---- Sheep, dynasty of, 245. Bogomile heresy, 93. Boli, 286, 292. Borlu, 286. Bosnia, Ottoman invasions of, 147, 184, 191. (_See also_ Tvrtko.) Bosnian nobility, conversion to Islam, 75. Bosphorus, 32, 45, 59, 233-4, 237, 260-1. Boucicaut, crusade of, 128, 236-9; in Nicopolis campaign, 212-23; tries to raise ransom at Constantinople, 226; crusaders left behind by, save Constantinople, 242. Brusa, 12, 13, 22, 32, 45, 46, 54, 84, 122, 125, 152, 185, 188, 198, 225, 257, 275-6, 286-7; captured by the Osmanlis, 46-8; place in Ottoman history, 125. Buda, John Palaeologos at, 130; Nicopolis crusaders at, 211. Bulaïr, 101, 111. Bulgaria, incorporated in Ottoman Empire, 195.